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Sacred&Profane: Wilco Worship and the “Churn” in American Religion

By Gary Laderman

…religion. In order to pursue that path, we have to do away with one of the most obfuscating, irritating, and limiting words bandied about by too many in public discourse: faith and faith communities. In the land of no religion, faith, as a domesticated catchword for Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus of every stripe and strand, is out the window. When faith, affiliation and tradition no longer apply, the possibility for religious life…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…associated with religious groups who question the APA’s findings. However, most of the therapists who argue with the APA are associated with churches and organizations which see homosexual behavior as immoral. There is debate but it is between the mental health establishment and a much smaller number of traditionally minded religious therapists. However, even if Spiegel had correctly identified the nature and participants in the debate, she still…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…of abortion and euthanasia and excludes poverty and the environment.” The most aggressive revisions the bishops did make to “Faithful Citizenship” were to beef up references to their opposition to same-sex marriage, which now total nine, changes that National Catholic Reporter blogger Michael Sean Winters notes “clearly are designed to make it lean more to the right and to the GOP.” The final straw was the leadership elections. Four candidates fo…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…devout man declaring the salvific dimensions of the cross. But perhaps the most telling revelation was when he said, “I’m not religious. I, personally, love Jesus and that was my salvation.” That these two diametrically opposed statements came out of Bieber’s mouth one after the other could again be fodder for mockery to his detractors. Finding salvation in Jesus is the definition of being a Christian and Christianity is, for better or worse, a re…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…hodox world. Just a couple of months ago, two of the country’s largest and most influential Orthodox organizations, the Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Union, co-sponsored America’s first National Jewish Child Abuse Prevention Week. There’s nothing to suggest that sexual abuse is any more or less prevalent in the Orthodox community than anywhere else; but there are a number of peculiarities to Orthodox Jewish life that have made the…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…man who boldly put both a pope and “popery” on the cover of his magazine almo*]}*st ninety years ago: a Protestant missionary’s son who found himself in bed with the Church in more ways than one. For Henry Luce, there was of course the actual Catholic with whom he shared his home, his second wife Clare Boothe Luce, but there was also an unabashed affinity for the Olympian authority the Vatican represented—similar to the kind he imagined his publicatio…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…ample, attributed the earthquake to underground caves filling with gases.) Most folks found either of these approaches less than satisfactory. Today some historians see the Lisbon earthquake as signaling the end of the optimism of the European Enlightenment and the beginning of the anxiety and emotional excessiveness of Romanticism. “If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?” Perhaps the best known response falls more into t…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…t month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years from Religion Dispatches on Vimeo….

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ce officers whose chief duty is meant to be “to protect and serve.” In his most recent conversation with the nation’s governors Trump’s words read as an encouragement to bring harm to our local communities. From CNN: “You have to dominate or you’ll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest and try people,” the President told governors in a call from the basement White House Situation Room… “It’s a movement, if you don’t put it down it will ge…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…ponents. (Excuse me, social and political potential partners.) You could almo*]}*st cut with a knife the desire for reconciliation here. It’s commendable, actually, but also facile. American politics would be much better if opponents could all get along and work together to solve the nation’s problems—they really would. Things would be so simple and so easy, except for all the nasty complications of, you know, different perspectives and different need…