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The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…fact that so many Christians somehow managed to reconcile their spiritual values with voting for a man who in my mind epitomizes the imperial values Jesus challenged. I would write this book for a more-than-academic audience, with the aim of educating the general public about some basic assumptions regarding “religion” that most scholars take for granted. I guess this book would fall in the genre of texts dedicated to promoting religious literacy…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…rable views of unionization than white Protestants, in part because of the vast number of Catholic immigrants to the United States who benefited significantly from their union membership but also because of the impact of Catholic and Jewish social teaching. White Protestants (my peeps) have too often tended to cling to a by-your-bootstraps ethic of individual achievement, joined to a suspicion that there is something slightly sinister and foreign…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…ver, it has also come under pressure to clarify Benedict’s own position on Vatican II. Consequently, the Vatican has now requested that Williamson and the Lefebrvrite bishops publicly state that they are in adherence with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. All corrections to this controversy aside, what has been revealed in this story is Benedict’s vision of the Church as a “perfect society” that places orthodoxy as the primary requireme…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…n part by denouncing her as a bigot and a racist who wanted “to reduce the number of children [born] to the nation’s poorest economic groups, which tend to be persons of color and other minorities.” The Pro-Life Action League made a similar criticism this week against the Guttmacher Institute, claiming that the Institute’s call for publicly-funded birth control “takes aim at the poor by recommending more government spending on programs to reduce t…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…local politics (though, as Hugo G. and Jean F. Nutini point out in Native Evangelism in Central Mexico, LLDM leadership cultivated a relationship with the PAN in 2000, when they defeated the PRI in national elections). As Fortuny, a social anthropologist, told me, LLDM allows its members “to make themselves visible.” They may be poor, she explained, by they have their apostle, their Santa Cena, and their big temple. For many, Fortuny said, members…

Religious Practices on Trial in Arizona: The Problem With “Experts”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…alin shared her view that the Obama presidency could shore up sagging poll numbers by invading Iran. Fertility experts have brought us the “Octomom,” and experts on the meaning of the biblical decree to “go forth and multiply” have TV viewers goggle-eyed over the nearly score of Duggar children in Arkansas. In following the Ray story over the past few months, I am amazed at the number of non-Indian sweat lodge experts the media has been able to lo…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…des of jurisprudence that has recognized and expanded a right to sexual privacy, curtailed state prohibitions governing sexual information and sexual representations, and expanded sexual rights and freedoms for most Americans. How that would play out on a Supreme Court with a conservative majority is uncertain. But rights and freedoms that are potentially at stake are concrete and bear directly upon the health of millions of Americans. At its core…

Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…ng that it has the right to “govern our institution in accordance with our values and beliefs, free from government entanglement.” Between 2004 and 2014, Loyola Chicago tripled its number of contingent faculty, while tuition rose by 73 percent. However, even though the union passed at Loyola Chicago, theology faculty were blocked from joining by the NLRB, which made an exception because theology was seen to be directly involved in religious educat…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…th, for both are part of my devotion to Allah). They do have a substantial number of women included, so I would not complain on that count. But, here’s the thing: there are no women under the category of Muslim intellectuals. Apparently women don’t think. So it is even harder to adjust to the loss of these three men whose intellectual contributions helped to shape the ways we think about and in fact live Islam today; both for women and for men. I…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…ed that Metaxas’s portrait of Bonhoeffer is essentially that of a neoconservative evangelical. Richard Weikart called it “counterfeit,” and “sanitized,” while Clifford Green concludes that a better title for the book might have been “Bonhoeffer Hijacked.” Metaxas’s book went on to be a New York Times Best Seller, which suggests that more than a few readers were drawn in by the notion that “Bonhoeffer is one of ours.” Claims like this are thoroughl…