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The Man Who Hoarded 17,000 Bottles of Sanitizer Did Nothing Wrong ― And That’s the Problem

By Daniel Schultz

…net this past weekend. Twitter was strewn with quote-tweets denouncing the high immorality of a man stockpiling 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer, intending to sell it at a big markup on ebay and Amazon. Actually, he got more than roasted. According to The New York Times, whose profile brought him to the attention of the online world, Colvin has received hate mail, death threats, and at least one angry home visit from a stranger. He also got a ceas…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…g. Apparently, according to Commonweal’s Grant Gallicho, my reading of the numbers—which was more critical than his—amounted to an “extended raspberry.” Just to get a couple of housekeeping details out of the way. Obviously, my dogma/doctrine typo was just that, as was the difference in Francis’ and Benedict’s net favorability rating, which is 11 points, not 6. But my point remains. Given the near-consensus that Benedict’s papacy was pretty much a…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lizing approach: “Handing this measure of flexibility to the clergy is a risky way of bringing about reform. The clergy are, after all, as diverse in their opinions about family life as the people they serve. . .It could, theoretically, also cause local church leaders to act more independently and harshly toward LGBT Catholics as a result of that independence — as the bishops in Malawi recently did when they denounced the government for failing to…

Why Darwin Keeps Coming Back

By Peter Manseau

…enged the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in high school science classrooms. The parents won the case with the help of the ACLU, which made it clear in the endless press coverage that it believed more than the proper teaching of biology was at stake. The last time Darwin saw so much ink may have been between 1955 and 1960, when the play and then the film Inherit the Wind told the story of the infamous “Scopes Monkey T…

A Whole New Ball Game: New Book Rethinks the History of Religion in Sport

By Daniel Grano

…mances also means paying constant attention to this dual focus between the highest religious ideals of sport and their instantiation in labor, health, racial, gendered, and institutional practices. Is there anything you had to leave out? I feel like everything that was important to me made it into the book. There are a couple of places where I abbreviated discussions that I could gave gone on and on about. My chapter on performance enhancement fea…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…ds we articulate for ourselves—or to those we believe are given to us by a higher power. For that reason, attempts to sponsor a nominee like Jackson on the basis of her faith, as several evangelical leaders did at Religion News Service, are bound to fall flat. Holding up religious commitments as evidence of inner morality only enables somebody like Graham to sidetrack the conversation and play gatekeeper in bad faith. Which is not to say that it’s…

Pathological Optimist Documentary Makes a Medical Martyr of Anti-Vax Crusader

By Gordon Haber

…deed come across as kind of pissy and smug, like the brilliant kid in your high school who was contemptuous of anyone who liked sports. But while he may be a bit objectionable on camera (he’s better on the page) there is nothing in this documentary that convincingly demonstrates that any of Deer’s allegations were false. One very strange thing about this film is the way that Wakefield’s hair keeps changing. In certain scenes it looks like he cuts…

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…ecent months, the Southern Baptist Convention has faced a steady stream of high-profile defections, including black pastors such as Charlie Dates, popular Bible teacher Beth Moore, and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore. The recent leak of Russell Moore’s private letter detailing racism and abuse of power at the highest levels of the convention put a sensational exclamation point on the trend. For the nation’s largest…

The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie

By Bradley Onishi

…d criminal offenses, I think Jennings is right to a degree. The stakes are high in this case—for Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden, and for the American people. He’s also correct in saying that this will galvanize the American Right behind Trump and propel him even further ahead of his GOP rivals as the favorite for the 2024 nomination. Father Frank Pavone, national director of the anti-abortion Priests for Life and one of the…

This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy

By Kyrah Malika Daniels and Dianne M. Stewart

…ere was that, in the so-called orgies of Vodou ceremonies, devotees became high-risk carriers. To be clear, Haitian immigrants at the time were in no way overrepresented among persons infected with HIV or diagnosed with AIDS. In actuality, Westerners have become fixated on myths of hypersexuality in Vodou, which are unfounded and are more likely a consequence of repressed sexual expression in Christianity. Moreover, the late Paul Farmer and other…