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As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…only speckle the crowd. Three days of talking with Church leaders help put numbers and pictures in perspective. But their insights on the Church’s problems make the new pope’s task sound all the more difficult. Many of the Irish Church’s fiercest critics are also its most devoted sons and daughters, who came of age when the social teachings of the Second Vatican Council provided a religious foundation for post-’60s currents of cultural change. Tak…

Two and a Half Men Child Star Calls Show “Filth”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hat time. One of his coworkers seems to have had very public mental health problems and was alleged to have abused a number of people, including some in the workplace. Oh, and in the video, Jones also says—if you actually watch the whole two–part testimony—that he started using drugs at a young age. (He also says “I like black people.” NO SRSLY. HE SAYS THAT. MORE ON THAT IN A MOMENT.) I don’t share his theology, but guess I just don’t find it su…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…sexuality. Most people have already heard more than they need to about the problems the new pope will face: the sex abuse scandal, corruption at the Vatican Bank and throughout the Vatican administration, secularism in the West, reaching out to the burgeoning Church in the Global South. Good luck to him on all counts, I say. For me, though, the kicker, the “line in the sand,” as Archbishop Timothy Dolan would put it: the most important problem fac…

Pew Survey Skews Christian

By Hussein Rashid

…ignorant Americans are of religion. Lauri Lebo points out that one of the problems with this survey is that it does not distinguish between those who are actively religious and those who are passively religious. However, I think what most critics fail to realize is how Christian the quiz is. If you look at the questions on the survey, there is detailed information on different types of Christianity, but almost all other religions are treated as a…

Would a Mormon Church President Ever Retire Due to Age or Health?

By Joanna Brooks

…is not.” LDS Church President Ezra Taft Benson was incapacitated by health problems during the last years of his tenure (1985–1994). In his final years, Benson’s health did not permit him even to attend LDS Church General Conferences, high visibility semi-annual events broadcast to membership around the world. But his level of incapacitation was never publicly acknowledged by Church officials. Nor have LDS Church officials acknowledged incapacitat…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hip with their parents and then convinces them they should blame all their problems on their parents?” In the book, you talk about another man who did come up with a theory for why you’re gay. Yes, he told me that maybe I was gay because I had grown up Southern Baptist and that didn’t give me a chance for artistic expression, whatever that meant. I felt that was the strangest theory I’d ever heard. He kept asking me questions about my childhood a…

Famous Mormon Fictionalizes Life Stories

By Joanna Brooks

…the kinds of stories we regular people demand, hunger for, and fixate on: the unstoppable star athlete, the faithful war buddy, the beautiful tragic dead girl. Romances much easier to wrap our minds around than the problems of worldly evil—the disturbed and isolated gunman, twenty dead first-graders, a defunded mental health system, and an American culture of gun idolatry—and the profound moral challenges they present….

The Mother of Christian Feminist Ethics, Beverly Wildung Harrison: 1932–2012

By Mark Hulsether

…s… To address the tangible and growing social suffering and growing social problems deserved priority. My own vocation was to the continuing moral formation of communities that called themselves Christian. What Bev here articulated as the role of social ethics within the wider study of religious thought is also a fitting way to describe the role of her mode of doing ethics within a larger field of religious ethics. A Committed Mentor A personal ex…

NY Subway Killing a Case of Blind Hatred?

By Laurie Patton

…ts out some of the other problems with the theme of “mistaken identity”: A number of people have challenged the moniker of “mistaken identity” on different grounds. Some have problematized the notion because it implies the “correctness” of targeting Muslims. Some have suggested that a neo-Nazi and white supremacist would not care to distinguish between Muslims and Sikhs. Others have argued that Sikhs fit into the new racialized identity of Muslims…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…a spiritual revolution in America, but I think they scored points for the wrong team.” —Ricky Skaggs on the New York Times popcast “He’s God’s man for this time.” —Ricky Skaggs on George W. Bush, 2004 The country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs has spent his time on the hustings for the religious right; most notably in the 2004 election. More recently, he has turned to an interesting cast of producers and guest artists (including Peter Framp…