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The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…suffering or who have caused my suffering, it tends to be the Prodigal Son-types who have alleviated it. My great spiritual ideal is John XXIII. He was a big, roly-poly guy who, while vicar in Turkey, signed fake passports for Jews, allowing them to escape. One of my favorite pictures in the world is of him with a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. As Pope, he said, “See everything, overlook much, correct a little.” He opened up…

Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás

By Daniel Schultz

…gh participation rates are increasing among these types of churches, they represent a small percentage of all churches. Fulton explains that a lot of this increase is due to the debates over immigration reform; but even factoring that in, Hispanic churches are becoming more politically active. The number of congregations might be few, but they may also be larger communities, representing a substantial number of people. In any case, the trend will…

With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson

By Chrissy Stroop

…ith little time to read or think about electoral politics; decades of right-wing radio and Fox News cleared the way for an even broader (and more radical) right-wing ecosystem that sows majoritarian grievances and conspiracy theories; legacy media outlets continue to legitimize right-wing narratives with their relentless bothsidesism; and social media, which has proven eminently susceptible to misinformation and the spread of conspiracy theories,…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…eme of the movement whose naturalistic bent actually overlaps with the back-to-the-land, new age counterculture in some ways, with Quiverfull moms staking out their territory of natural pregnancy in the odd company of feminist doulas and naturopaths, opposed as they are to high rates of hospital C-sections. The Quiverfull Fringe: Caesarean-Sections Deliver Babies unto Caesar—and Through Him, Satan Although unassisted childbirth is not at all limit…

The Dirty Little Secret of Every Ponzi Scheme, or: Bernie Madoff’s 150 Year Sentence

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…estate and banking bubbles all require a ravenous public looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, and not asking any questions about how it works or whom it hurts. When we discover that a system was actually a scheme, then we cry “Foul!” Bernie Madoff’s amorality is clearer now, and it is astonishing; the losses to individuals and to the confidence that our financial system requires are equally profound and much of this seems beyond current repair. Y…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…platform. The recent kerfuffle over the anti-gay marriage comments by Chick-fil-A’s president Dan Cathy has inspired divergent views from evangelicals who have flooded my Facebook wall and Twitter stream praising and condemning Cathy in blogs and columns, and yet believers have been portrayed as a unified bloc by the media. Yesterday, as competing groups met at Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country to show support or derision in organized eve…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…manifesto published on a far-right message board by the alleged shooter, 19-year-old John T. Earnest, makes it clear that the white nationalist ideology that inspired him is also implicated in a number of other recent attacks, including the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, the killing of 49 Muslim worshippers last month in New Zealand, and the 2015 murder of nine African-American Christian worshippers in Charleston, South Carolina. In Ear…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…around in Washington DC and New York City, we hear about the “Pope-Soap-On-A-Rope” but not the people who work in Catholic schools for low wages. We see T-shirts for papal teddy bears, but no hint of the impact of the Vatican’s policy banning the use of condoms, even for those who are HIV-infected. Whether it is a Sunday morning talk show, the front page of a newspaper, or the evening news, I continue to be amazed at how little the Vatican press…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…ing on a range of issues related to sexual life—such as birth control, “out-of-wedlock” births, abortion, homosexuality, and even sexual assault—the US media overwhelmingly quote the most conservative religious perspectives as the moral position on an issue. This means that conservative Christians, usually evangelical or Catholic, get the most airtime. Is it any wonder, then, that many LGBT people and feminists identify religion as “the enemy”? Bl…

Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion

By Mary E. Hunt

…ite Catholic for his views on the war in Iraq, health care, and other bread-and-butter justice issues, despite Obama’s pro-choice position. Another law professor, Nicholas Cafardi of Duquesne University, has also assessed the scene and concluded that there is more than one “intrinsic evil” in the world, a safe bet given the myriad challenges to human life abroad among us. He has said that Barack Obama will do a better job of operationalizing Catho…