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Romney’s Speech, and Boehner’s Catholicism

By Sarah Posner

Before you read my post, especially if you didn’t watch the Republican National Convention last night, go read Joanna’s. She explains the role of Mormon speakers humanizing Mitt Romney last night, and how the image of a kind, generous, selfless lay bishop fails to square with cruel economic policy. Of course this was a political convention, and as Joanna points out, hagiography. But like Joanna, I felt like those speeches from non-politicians (C…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

I am a scholar of religion by profession, but I like to play in technology. So when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for generic top level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org., and .net, asked for proposals for new gTLD, I watched with some fascination. One of the earliest discussions was around allowing “.xxx” to indicate pornography-related sites. However, I am interested in a new round of names…

LDS Church Brings Religious Pressure to Zoning Fight

By Joanna Brooks

Coverage is beginning to pick up on a story first reported last Friday in Provo, Utah’s Daily Herald about the LDS Church applying a form of ecclesiastical pressure to get local residents who oppose the building of a nine-story LDS Church building in their neighborhood to relent. Residents in the Pleasant View neighborhood of northeast Provo had been assured by their local LDS Church leaders that it was okay to express concern about the building…

Does Analytic Thinking Erode Religious Belief?

By Andrew Aghapour

I have some secrets for you; feel free to tell everyone. Psychopaths have distinct types of brains, and so do left-handed people. Bar Mitzvahs aid myelination, the conversion of gray-matter neurons into white-matter neurons. Bragging makes us feel really good, which is why Facebook is better than sex. If that concerns you, don’t worry, because the pharmaceutical industry is going to save marriage. Shakespeare tickles the visual association cortex…

Only 5 Million “Real” Catholics in the U.S.?

By Marian Ronan

When, in January, the Obama administration mandated free contraceptive coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) responded ferociously. In his rejection of the administration’s mandate, the president of the USCCB, now-Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, declared, “The Obama Administration has now drawn an unprecedented line in the sand.” I’ve been thinking lately about a Catholic line in the sand,…

CPCs Hire Christians Only With Federal Funds? Thank Obama

By Sarah Posner

At the newly-reconstituted American Independent News Network, Sofia Resnick has a story about how crisis pregnancy centers, which are well-known to be Christian-focused, promote a religious agenda and hire only other Christians. That’s something they can legally do if they are privately funded. In some cases, Resnick reports, they do that with federal funds. If you’ve got a problem with that, though, take it up with the Obama administration. As I…

Anti-Science Bill Passes Tennessee House

By Lauri Lebo

The “strengths and weaknesses” bill introduced by Tennessee State Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, passed overwhelmingly in the House last week by a 70 to 23 vote. While Dunn insists that the bill is not anti-evolution, but merely about improving teaching in the public schools, comments by the bill’s supporters reveal a stunning hostility towards science and education. Andy Sher writing for the Chattanooga Free Press, quotes bill-supporter Rep. Richa…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

This past week brought into sharp focus the Catholic Bishops’ increasingly uncompromising stance on reproductive issues, and their silence on others. The bishops released a memo reaffirming their rejection of the “radically flawed” compromise on insurance coverage of contraception proposed by the Obama administration. As Dan Maguire noted, Bishop Robert McManus forced Anna Maria College to withdraw its invitation to Victoria Kennedy, Sen. Edward…

Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

Eight years ago, during the Easter season, Mel Gibson released The Passion of the Christ, a controversial depiction of Jesus’ last days deeply influenced by the radical Traditionalist Catholic worldview to which he subscribes. This Easter season, without the hype, and even less controversy, Kirk Cameron has released Monumental, a documentary that “seeks to discover America’s true “national treasure”: the people, places, and principles that made A…

Cues for Throwing Up

By Sarah Posner

On George Stephanopolous’ Sunday show, Rick Santorum expressed that gaggy feeling conservatives get when someone talks about the separation of church and state. Referring specifically to then-candidate John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech to Protestant ministers in Houston, Santorum said: To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live that says only people of non-faith can…