Religion Dispatches
…an called Wyler’s therapy “a softer, conversational treatment that allowed him to return to his conservative Christian roots.” In addition to mislabeling Wyler’s church, Schumacher-Matos misunderstands Wyler’s therapy. At Religion Dispatches, Ted Cox and I gave brief descriptions of what Wyler now offers. Male leaders cuddling male participants like babies and vicariously beating their fathers into a pulp are not features I would associate with so…
Read More…ribly consequential post of chair of the Committee on Catholic Education. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput beat another Francis pick, Bridgeport, CT, Bishop Frank Caggiano, for chair of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, which is responsible for promoting the church’s teaching regarding hot-button issues like family and contraception (or the lack thereof). Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield was elected as the conference’s new ge…
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…diana University (Bloomington) Walter E. Fluker, PhD, Professor Emeritus Ethical Leadership, Boston University School of Theology Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, Contingent Faculty, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University Tamura Lomax, PhD, Associate Professor, Michigan State University Brian Bantum, PhD, Neil F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Brittney Cooper, PhD, Associate…
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…e these people from the community so they do not assault again.” “When it comes to abuse, there’s an overriding state interest in protecting children and I think that has to trump religious concerns.”…
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…or Henry Luce, there was of course the actual Catholic with whom he shared his home, his second wife Clare Boothe Luce, but there was also an unabashed affinity for the Olympian authority the Vatican represented—similar to the kind he imagined his publications would offer each week. As one of his early biographers noted, Luce “respected anybody who took a traditional religion seriously, whether Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, or Orthodox Jew, and de…
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…benevolent or good, given the same circumstances? Candide challenged all philosophical attempts at theodicy as feeble and idiotic. In the end, Candide, after much suffering himself and bereft of God, retires to cultivate his own garden. This “final resolution” leaves important issues unaddressed, a point to which I shall shortly return; needless to say, this non-theistic or atheistic view, however well known it may be, is not shared by most Ameri…
Read More…ative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus…
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…hatever you believe. Share it. I’m at a point where I’m not going to hold this in. This is not the decorative Christianity of a cross-wearing boy band member or the God-thanking pop star at the VMA podium—or even the theological hollowness of Creed’s frontman spreading his arms wide to ostensibly invite Jesus in. This is a devout man declaring the salvific dimensions of the cross. But perhaps the most telling revelation was when he said, “I’m not…
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…is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained. Consciously or unconsciously, he has been caught up by the Zeitgeist, and with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the United States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of raci…
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…ender. This and similar figures regarding feelings about same-sex relationships—for which there is very little difference between those who are parents and those who aren’t—could be useful for fighting against the well-organized efforts of minority control over school libraries and curricula that right-wingers are waging across the country. On the other hand, it’s concerning that only 41% of Americans would be somewhat or very comfortable learning…
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