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“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…at all; it was humanity, the world, the Church, his astonishing and all-encompassing compassionate embrace of the Creation of which he saw himself an indelible part. Merton lobbied hard to gain permission to live slightly apart from his community, in a small hermitage up the hill from the dormitory of Gethsemani—that some monks would resent his special pleading and special treatment was inevitable. But Father Matthew never did. Rather, he credite…

Do Boys in Tutus Break God’s ‘Chain of Command’?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…my daughter-in-law, discovered this because she makes tutus and sells them online to customers around the country. One day, Ayden wanted to model one of her creations and she let him. He looks fabulous in his tutu, and even wore a rainbow colored one for the Pride celebration this year. He rocked that tutu. Fortunately for Ayden, no one has yet to ridicule this beautiful boy in a tutu — but a boy his mom calls “Boo” on her blog was not so lucky. T…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…online on the Wellesley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to the bacterium that causes syphilis, so that different therapies for the disea…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…, providing a range of social, legal, and educational services to the surrounding community, and creating a portfolio of businesses that sustain the overall enterprise. Trading Prophets for Profit Many of the cohort of “religious leaders” who joined me at SOCAP11 had these sorts of job-creating, community-enriching enterprises in mind. A priest from an Episcopal church in San Francisco explored ways to develop a restaurant incubator in his church’…

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

By Kathryn Joyce

…l of this birth and not me! Unassisted childbirth has found a home in the fundamentalist communities of the United States and Australia. Part of the reason for this shared enthusiasm across continents is due to the popularity of the Quiverfull-friendly teachings of Nancy Campbell, editor of the conservative Christian women’s magazine Above Rubies, which has a large readership in all three countries Campbell has lived: New Zealand, Australia, and n…

Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice

By Eric Reitan

…ulse to react defensively, to respond in terms of its subjective sense of being besieged by a hostile secularist movement. And it is precisely that unhelpful impulse which Hitchens and Dawkins are fueling with their current self-righteous stunt. In fact, were I to identify two individuals alive today who more wholly embody the hostile secularist movement that the Church feels besieged by, I could think of none better than Christopher Hitchens and…

Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity

By Diane Winston

…retends to shoot herself, then de-rezzes him. It’s a noble choice. Zoe, maddened by the news that Daniel plans to “kill” her, launches a desperate bid to escape. It’s a last stand that may end up costing her freedom and her father’s company. Just as Joseph’s family—Tamara, Emmanuelle (a.k.a. God with us) and Sam conspire to save him, Daniel’s family acts to bring him down. The reasons are obvious: Joseph is weak but decent. Daniel is a bastard. He…

Jesus Loses His Freak: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 4

By Mark Dery

…nal banishment to the outer darkness unless they submitted to His Will. Around that time, being a Jesus Freak was losing its outsider cool, in my mind—the kiss of death, for any teenager. Some religious historians date the co-optation of the Jesus movement from its high-water mark in the mass media: Explo ’72, Campus Crusade leader Bill Bright’s shrewd re-packaging of conservative Christianity in the hippie sounds and styles of the Jesus Freaks—a…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…ilitia growth in the mid-1990s, Ward witnessed this coded racist rhetoric being tested in the margins of the right-wing media, though it has since moved into the mainstream. In the past year I’ve interviewed dozens of activists and scholars who see the same dynamics. All of us are worried. “What I find surprising is the lack of an appropriate or effective response. Decent people need to stand up,” says Ward. “The Democratic Party pundits seem to t…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…very interesting to see what forms religious reaction will take to the student protests in places like Tehran, or Athens, or Beijing, that are armed and enabled by cell phone technology and the almost instantaneous circulation of striking images of authoritarian crackdown, impossible to contain or control. There is an old philosophical quandary posed as follows: can a fish imagine water? Similarly, Religion Dispatches exists within the very med…