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Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…p with regard to visions reflects its stranglehold on official religion. Since the Council of Trent (1545-63), clerical reformers have struggled to impose a single version of Catholicism on believers, trying their best to regulate doctrine, ritual, ordination, and the behavior of the baptized. For equally as long, they have failed to prevent dissent and religious agency among the faithful, many of whom have demonstrated their dissatisfaction by jo…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…cularly of highly educated career-oriented women—there are terrific differences in the number of children, the age at menarche, the age at first full-term pregnancy, nursing patterns—those kinds of things are all very different from what they were before. And in each case, the way we live now is a risk factor for breast cancer and, to a lesser extent, for ovarian and uterine cancers. The risk factor for cancer goes up slightly. But other things se…

Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…Sunday, and had representatives at the coalition’s first “people of faith” phone bank on Tuesday. Religious volunteers, they believe, can sway values voters by sharing personal stories about their own faith journeys toward supporting marriage equality, gay relatives and friends, explained Andy Grow, Washington United for Marriage press secretary. “In California, they talked a lot about rights, and they didn’t talk enough about what this means for…

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

…they are responsible to God.” This rhetoric, which slides from supposed concern with science into (equally nonsensical) moral consequentialism, is a perfect example of the fundamentalist approach to apologetics known as presuppositionalism. Meanwhile, Remington, Green, Idaho State Representative Heather Scott, and failed state senatorial candidate Scott Herndon all spoke at a church service in Coeur d’Alene back in December that was dedicated to…

The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…idoscope served up on cable television or the world wide web. What is distinct about the iPhone and similar devices is they that they will allow us to dabble in a variety of faith traditions—to test the waters without committing a large investment of time or money, and without risk of public exposure. Thanks to the interactivity available in a smartphone application, we can all become religious dilettantes. A Pew Forum study published last year fo…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…in criminal justice reform, Hoover said he sees a collective commitment to “humanizing more people.” “The heart of the matter is building a more inclusive society,” he said. “Changing the story about people who are incarcerated changes the story about everyone—my neighbor is human, just like me.” If California is a trendsetter, we should hope that rest of the country catches the cultural wave that made Prop 47 a success….

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…e. As of this writing, the status of Obama’s Catholic National Advisory Council is unclear. (Phone calls to Obama headquarters were not returned.) However, the dust-up between the always vociferous Donohue and the Obama campaign was reminiscent of the battles that took place during the 2004 presidential campaign when a group of conservative Catholics and neoconservatives were joined by conservative Christian evangelicals in attacking the Catholic…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…aring the story, she returns home, opens Google India, and tracks down the phone number for the sweet shop her grandfather mentioned. Within seconds, she has called the store on her smart phone, and Yusuf’s grandson—who answers—has likewise opened Google to research visas for a reunion too long denied. We can understand the implications of this storyline by putting it into conversation with its longer historical context. The logic of the plot—that…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…Poetry dismantles the strictures of conventions. The name of the band—at once grateful and dead— is such a combination of words. A metaphor brings new insights when two seemingly paradoxical categories are brought together, e.g. rock ‘n’ roll band and environment (ushered in above). At the height of secular modernity, when Catholics were opening the windows of Vatican II and American theologians were delving into what was known as the gospel of C…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…saw at Haggard’s church “medieval,” while René Holvast described this new way as incommensurable with modern Christianity: Conversations and discussions with some missionary colleagues did not seem to lead to mutual understanding. The usual evangelical ways of reasoning fell mute. It seemed to be not just a different way of understanding, but a different way of reasoning altogether. In fact, at the very time Holvast and Spiegel encountered it, th…