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In Trump Sexual Assault Speech Michelle Obama Articulates a New Political Morality

By Daniel Schultz

…intellect. The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman. It is cruel. It is frightening. And the truth is, it hurts. It hurts. It’s like that sick sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street minding your own business. Some guy yells out vulgar words about your body. Or when you see that guy at work that stands just a little too close, stares just a little too long, you feel uncomfortable in your own skin.” There’s more,…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…hen they’re unlikely to receive a red hat. St. Patrick’s seminary has been run by the religious order of the Sulpicians since 1898. Like most dioceses, San Francisco has seen a precipitous drop in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector…

No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…faith. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I am likely breaking some cardinal writer’s rule, but I have constantly said that I wrote this book for me. Talking to the Dead has always been about reconciling that disconnect between what I read as a young adult and what I experienced growing up as a kid. I was never really worried about audience. If I had to pick some other ideal readers though, it would include people familiar wit…

Elizabeth Warren, American Evangelist

By Peter Laarman

…red daily devotion is to do just one thing each day that advances the in – breaking of that peaceable and just kingdom. None of this is meant to be dismissive or derisive. Sen. Warren is not playing politics here (we could smell it if she were). Her stock is rising–and rising fast–because lots and lots of people understand that she is the real deal: a different and fresh American prophet who vividly evokes not an imaginary El Dorado of impossible…

Tea Party Needs a History Lesson on Islam in America

By Michael J. Altman

…untry.” As he puts it, “Our founding fathers weren’t Muslims, they weren’t breaking for prayers five times a day.” But it’s Dennis who has his history wrong. So, first of all, what did President Obama really say about Islam’s role in America? I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, “The…

Emad Effat, Shaykh of Egyptian Revolution, Shot Dead During Protest

By H. al-Zoubeir

…the revolution) was even more heart-wrenching. Those in attendance were struggling to maintain their composure even within the prayer—their voices were breaking. But in sadness, there was also beauty. Shaykh Emad was a deeply religious Muslim figure, and yet the outpouring of emotion online as well as the funeral and the funeral procession was not limited to the religious Muslim sector of society. As an Azhari, he was a product of the mainstream…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…Islam is not a religion in court this week. They are suing the country for breaking open-meeting laws when they approved the building proposal. And in North Carolina, congressional candidate Renee Ellmers released possibly the most anti-Muslim political ad of the year. The ad calls the Park51 project a “victory mosque” and compares it to mosques in Jerusalem and Constantinople. Disneyland designed its own headscarf for a Muslim employee. Religious…

The Second Coming of Black Jesus

By Jess Peacock

…acred and the profane, and the idolatry of orthodoxy and tradition that McGruder and Clattenburg consistently deconstruct throughout the first season—and which, as indicated by the trailer, looks to continue throughout season two (Jesus’ Church of Compton and Taco Truck anyone?). Ultimately, theology is less about what we say about the Divine and more about what we perceive the Divine to be telling us. In Black Jesus, the divine protagonist is sho…

Georgetown Poverty Summit Impoverished on Women in More Ways Than One

By Patricia Miller

…ke the IUD, could be a game-changer in preventing unintended pregnancy and breaking the cycle of poverty: [T]he most realistic approach to slowing the growth of single-parent families is to help women delay childbearing until both parents are ready to raise a child and prepared to make a long-term commitment to the other parent. Doing so will improve child well-being and reduce child poverty rates. Despite a recognition of the snowballing conseque…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…a, suffice it to say that such an apparatus exists in the form of a superstructural bureaucracy that regulates monasteries from above, and an infrastructural apparatus (including government informants) embedded within monasteries to control them from below. This bureaucracy allows for control of various aspects of monks’ and nuns’ individual and institutional lives: —The Chinese government (or one of its various proxies) issues or denies formal re…