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Religious Leaders Accuse Conservatives of Misleading Public on Contraception

By Katie Toth

…idual counseling, for example. Members of the United Church of Christ, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church also spoke in favor of the legislation, and in support of the campaign. “We hope that we can help women and men understand what’s available to them now and to ask for those things when they come to open enrollment periods with their employers,” said Knox. While t…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Of Martian Rovers and Terror in Holy Spaces

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…o a visceral reaction to embodied religious otherness. How do we move from promoting basic facts to combatting that profane shudder of hatred? To see the horror of the killer within, of his commonality and ordinariness, and to remember that security reports have long pointed to the likelihood of many others like him, is much harder than ascribing this tragedy to “evil.” Ironically, this horror in suburban Milwaukee came just hours before the Curio…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ed four in Binghamton, New York in 2009; John Allen Muhammad, the Islamic, African American “Beltway Sniper,” who, with Jamaica-born partner Lee Boyd Malvo, killed at least 10 people in the Washington DC area through the month of October 2002. Many of these shooters, regardless of race or religion, had known mental health issues. Likewise, a substantial number of the men on the Brady Campaign list were not previously identified as having psycholog…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…wood berating what quickly became the Twitter meme #InvisibleObama was the central laugh line within and outside the house—for very different reasons—the campaign’s engagement with reality is certainly worth verifying. Second, even if it is the case that the financial arm of the Episcopal Church, the independent Church Pension Group, did invest when Bain Capital when it was formed in 1984, that doesn’t mean that they continue to hold that investme…

Rev. Sun Myung Moon Dead at 92

By Sarah Posner

…associated with Mr. Moon in the United States. They were in keeping with a central tenet of his theology, a mix of Eastern philosophy, biblical teachings and what he called God’s revelations to him. In the church’s view, Jesus had failed in his mission to purify mankind because he was crucified before being able to marry and have children. Mr. Moon saw himself as completing the unfulfilled task of Jesus: to restore humankind to a state of perfecti…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…n probably keep its apoplexy in check over the Democratic platform. Unless Republicans and news organizations are going to start condemning the Constitution, too, demanding an explanation for its secular nature, let’s relax a bit. Indeed, the ballyhooed “purge” involves a revised section on economic opportunity, which no longer references individuals reaching their “God-given” potential. The Democratic platform does include an extensive section on…

YouTube Terrorism

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…cussed, debated, and fine-tuned since the 9/11/12 tragedy in Benghazi, one central point has been missed, and it needs to be made again and again and again: expect the unexpected, look for the unrelated to be connected, then projected for the interest of dissident groups savvy about the nature of the modern world and, above all, media ‘neutrality.’ There are no topics so hateful or obscene that they’re debarred from the Internet. They travel viral…

Christ is Pissed, Again

By Hollis Phelps

…d the immediate criticism of the work is a theological point, as well. The central claim of Christianity is that, in the incarnation, God became fully human, just like us. I remember buying diapers for my wife’s grandfather in the days leading up to his death. Like countless others facing their demise, he had, at the end of his life, lost the ability to control even the most simplest of bodily functions. If we cannot imagine a urine-soaked cross,…

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…among these are the continued US and NATO military presence in Afghanistan and the extensive US military campaign in Pakistan that is believed to have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Pakistani civilians in air strikes. Even within the original al Qaeda bin Laden has probably not played a central operational role for many years, though he remained an influential voice and symbol. The organization has cultivated a new set of charismatic leader…

A Mennonite on American Obesity

By Lauri Lebo

…you explode. As I contemplated the commonplace nature of obesity in South Central PA, and its prevalence among Christians and non-Christians alike, I remembered something about gluttony being one of the seven deadly sins. And then it hit me like a T-bone steak through my TV screen—that’s right up there with lust on the list of deadly sins. Here we were, slothfully chowing away in the richest nation in the world, in a mall a few doors down from Ex…