Religion Dispatches
…orce them to go where God wants them: the land of Israel. According to the New York Times, “Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the country’s largest branch of Judaism, said that while he did not consider Mr. Hagee an anti-Semite, he found a reading of the Bible that would include a prophecy of Hitler to be ‘obscene.’” He is not the first rabbi to say so. Over 40 years ago, Rabbi Richard Rubenstein became famous (or notor…
Read More…ns for poor women. When 24 nuns signed a statement that was printed in the New York Times in 1984 saying that there was a diversity of Catholic opinion on abortion, the Vatican hounded them until 22 recanted and the other two resigned. More recently, the Vatican disciplined the Leadership Conference of Women Religious for its progressive views and for endorsing a version of the ACA that didn’t include the bishops’ prohibitions on abortion. The con…
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…is featured at the BornAliveTruth website. In addition to coverage in the New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press, the organization’s launch received blanket coverage from such likeminded sites as Conservative Grapevine, Catholic News Service, LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Stop the ACLU, OneNewsNow and many more. The main donor to BornAliveTruth, a 527—an organization allowed to raise money from individuals in unlimited amounts—is Raymond Ruddy, w…
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…and what they squashed with the other. Born to an Irish-American family in New York in 1861, Robinson came to prominence as a Chinese magician in London around the turn of the century where, in 1905, he waged stage-war with—and won the title “The Original Chinese Conjurer” from—Ching Ling Foo, the native Chinese magician from whom Robinson had actually stolen his Chung Ling Soo act. In 1898, before leaving the U.S., Robinson had published, under h…
Read More…Catholic states: Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. To date Trump is holding up well in these states, especially his home state of New York. But a surging Marco Rubio, a Catholic who is now edging into second place in New Hampshire, poses a potential problem to Trump. The first is drawing away Catholic voters who aren’t too enamored of Trump. According to last week’s Pew Poll on the candidates and religion, Trump i…
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…e doesn’t even begin to cover this allegation—it would be like calling the New York Post “woke”) and is now working with Julian Reichelt, the paper’s former head who was removed after investigations by the New York Times revealed that he “had abused his position to pursue relationships with several women on his staff.” “Bild” belongs to the publishing giant Springer, which recently acquired Politico. Schuler has since tried to make a name for hims…
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…make life.” A public theologian and the Senior Pastor at Middle Church in New York, in which capacity she’ll soon be hosting a conference called “Revolutionary Love: The Courage to Imagine” featuring a veritable who’s who of progressive Christianity as speakers, Lewis has certainly given a lot of thought to the meaning of terms like “love” and “life.” And when she talks about “making life,” she explains, “Yes, I mean babies, but that’s not only i…
Read More…neither are Real People of Faith. There are great faith stories to tell in New York City, and Berkeley, and LA, and all those other safe blue enclaves. I’ll bet you could find a liberal campaigner talking to people about their faith in one of those areas. I’ll bet you could find a bunch. Then too, the Dems-Should-Talk-More-About-Faith narrative generally means Candidates Should Talk More About Faith, ignoring the average party members. It’s to the…
Read More…erú, Ecuador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic recently visited D.C., New York, Texas and California as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Activists from Latvia, Serbia, Russia, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and other countries have traveled to the U.S. over the last year. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder also takes a global look at what he calls a new cold war over human rights, in which Russia becomes a more importan…
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…ational education. He’d be the first Catholic to hold the position, but as New York Magazine explains, that doesn’t mean he’d have any particular sensitivity for members of faith traditions that have been historically marginalized. Instead, it’s much more likely to mean he will continue the Christian supremacist agenda he’s been pushing since he entered public office. New York‘s Ed Kilgore explains: [Brownback] was a member of the shadowy conserva…
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