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After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…eality. Tolerance allows our unearned privilege (whether racial privilege, class privilege, heterosexist privilege, etc.) to go unquestioned and unchallenged. So beneath the theological surface of the iceberg’s tip—Westboro and the like—we do not find less hateful and violent theological and ideological views, just more subtly expressed ones. Unfortunately, it is the power that does not look like power that is most effective in maintaining circums…

Rethinking Religion After Latest Holistic Death

By Joseph Laycock

…report confirmed that Lavigne was accidentally “cooked to death” during a class called “Dying in Consciousness.” Participants were wrapped in mud and plastic, covered with blankets, and left immobilized for about nine hours. Cardboard boxes were placed over their heads and they were encouraged to hyperventilate. Lavigne died of hyperthermia when her body was unable to dissipate heat properly. The seminar was held at a spa called Ferme Reine de la…

Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…against all evidence, that culture rot proceeds entirely independently of class war from above. That is a naive and dangerous delusion. Economic spoliation and civic decay go hand in hand, but the leading hand belongs to the iron law of oligarchy. When 80% of the population is being fleeced by greedheads at the top (who now have so much money they literally don’t know what to do with it), a coruscating rage fueled by status anxiety is bound to ke…

Call Me Pesach

By Peter Manseau

…began studying Yiddish more than a dozen years ago, the other students in class had no problem choosing appropriate names to use during our conversation sessions. David became Dovid; Rebecca became Rivka; Isaac became Itsik. There is no obvious Yiddish equivalent of Peter, so I became Pesach. Once a common Jewish name, it is also the Hebrew word for the holiday that starts later this week. I never admitted why I felt drawn to the name. Not only a…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…notion that pregnancy is not an illness draws, I daresay uneasily, from a number of sources. There’s the classical notion that a thing’s nature is derived from its purpose, and the purpose of female bodies is to bear children. There’s the persistent early modern fear that women, especially privileged white women, are becoming overcivilized and unnatural, not having as many privileged white babies, relying on technology and pain relief, and not fi…

Freeman Dyson, American Heretic

By Michael J. Altman

If Scientists are the West’s last priestly class then Freeman Dyson might be our greatest heretic. Nicholas Dawidoff’s profile of the brilliant physicist in the New York Times Magazine illuminates a man who has always sought to subvert scientific consensus—most recently in denying the dangers of climate change and CO2 emissions. The story’s title, “The Civil Heretic,” signals the ghost of religion hanging in the background. It is the “secular rel…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ost obvious signs that institutional Catholicism relegates women to second-class citizenship. In the movie, many wonderful women describe their priestly vocations from childhood, their calls to ministry, and how they have struggled to fulfill them. Patricia Fresan, now a bishop with the RCWP group, speaks matter-of-factly about being a professor of homiletics in a seminary while being barred from preaching on account of her gender. She connects ap…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…of Republican 2012 presidential contenders. His campaign team had chosen a classic location very much in the key of Ronald Reagan: Liberty State Park, New Jersey, where the candidate set up his podium against the backdrop of the Hudson and the Statue. (Even though you’d never know it from television close shots that entirely screened out Lady Liberty.) The crowd was small—about 100 supporters. The skies were grey. The mood was low key. And the can…

Quote of the Day

By Sarah Posner

…he president’s speech to the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday. Said his spokesperson: “He was disturbed and offended by the president’s use of prayer and reflection time for partisan politics and class warfare,” [Jen] Talaber said. “Rep. Gingrey enjoyed listening to the keynote speaker and found the breakfast to be inspiring until President Obama began politicking.”…

Contrary to Popular Narrative the Supreme Court’s ‘303’ Decision Gutting Civil Rights Laws is not About an Individual Standing Up For Her Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…a logical or consistent line between discrimination against one protected class (race) and another (sexual orientation) because once religiously motivated discrimination is permitted, the line has already been drawn in the wrong place. … Instead of drawing the line between night and day, the Crusaders tried to draw the line between shades of benighted bigotry.” Second, the bigots are emboldened. ADF and the other Christian nationalist organizatio…