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Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

By Mary E. Hunt

…he first place. Or, perhaps the foxes may really think that this effort to centralize power with even less accountability can take place quietly since so many people will be exercised over the mere suggestion of women priests. Stay tuned, but I think they miss their guess. There is simply no comparison between a theological argument over who is “fit matter” to be ordained and the destruction of a child’s life; not to mention the thousands of peopl…

Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism

By Sophie Bjork-James

…they are practicing an impure, or incorrect Christianity. Whiteness is so central to much of evangelicalism that it remains an invisible norm, one that justifies and dismisses violence, both rhetorical and actual. Santorum and the broader white evangelical community need to ask themselves a question posed by the president of the National Congress of American Indians: “Make your choice. Do you stand with White Supremacists justifying Native Americ…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…n, its identity as a women’s group has been a very critical part of how it promotes its authority to speak on sex and gender issues. Historically, women have been both the most vocal proponents and opponents of the liberalization of sex, gender, and reproduction laws. If we take seriously that gender – as just one of many forms of social control – is an important litmus test to gauge the power relationships in a culture, then it makes sense to foc…

Jews Violate Their Own Beliefs, Conservative Christians Say

By Evan Derkacz

…er points out), is this: In recent days we have heard claims that a belief central to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—that we are created male and female, and that marriage unites these two basic expressions of humanity in a unique covenant—amounts to a form of bigotry. Gee, thank you boys. Thank you for letting me, a Jew, know that I (along with all of Reform and Conservative Judaism, the two largest denominations by a landslide) am violating a…

Senators Can and Must Ask About Nominees’ Religious Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…business” of the committee. But it absolutely is. Cruz has made religion a central part of his political appeal and the justification for many of his more conservative positions. The same is true of these nominees. As Senator Whitehouse said today, “It absolutely is the business of this committee to make sure that nominees who seek judicial office in the United State of America will leave their religious beliefs in the robing room and not bring th…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…oppose Palestinian sovereignty. The sites are expected to be renovated. As central a figure as Rachel is to Judaism, she also plays an important role in Christianity and Islam. In his book, Rachel Weeping, Dr. Fred Strickert, professor of religion at Warburg College, describes how throughout history, women of all faiths would visit Rachel’s Tomb to pray for children, someone’s health, or an easy birth. He refers to sources that chronicle Christian…

It’s All In Your Head: Patricia Churchland’s Touching a Nerve

By Andrew Aghapour

…f today’s neuro-babble should find something to agree with in Churchland’s central thesis, that “I am who I am because my brain is what it is.” The brain is, indeed, a central cause of who we are as individuals and as a collective species. Anyone seeking self-knowledge ought to at least consult these pages, even if it’s with a critical eye (or should I say visual cortex?). *** Given Churchland’s appreciation for complexity, the most surprising ele…

How the Abortion Debate Turned the Christian Right On To Liberal Arguments… and Birthed the Religious Freedom Industry

By Eric C. Miller

…e. Prior to this, Catholics had previously been a primary concern of those promoting church-state separation. Also, if a primary goal is to promote anti-abortion advocacy, which is often couched in religious terms, then religious liberty and not non-establishment must become a priority. And now with the declining status of Christianity in America, religious liberty is continually emphasized. Because of this, the language of rights has been used mu…

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and a survivor said Tuesday. Uganda is home to a growing evangelical Christian population. That influence has played a role in the bill before the country’s lawmakers that would require imprisonment or even execution for anyone who is gay or lesbian, or who fails to report gay or lesbian peop…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, which states that they are promoting the “Judeo-Christian heritage” of the country as they see it. (Though, of course, little in the vision can be construed as “Judeo.”) The original U.S. motto since 1782, E Pluribus Unum, which still appears on the Great Seal of the United States, much better reflects the founding aspirations of unity amidst diversity. But that’s no longer the goal of the national m…