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Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…, and began to shift their language on the purpose of marriage from a unit promoting children to a unit promoting love, support, and fellowship. In 1927, Jewish professor of Talmud, Jacob Lauterbach, famously presented his “Talmudic–Rabbinic View on Birth Control,” which maintained that as long as a couple was able to have both a boy and girl over the course of their marriage, their responsibility to propagate the race was fulfilled and therefore…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…member of his parish. He added, “If you want to believe [Ibrahim], you are free to believe her.” However, for some pilgrims, Father Ayoub’s answer simply isn’t good enough. At least one woman, who managed to get his unlisted number, screamed at him demanding that he confirm the miracle. While Marian apparitions always bring controversy, this is especially so in urban areas where neighbors rarely appreciate pilgrims blocking traffic and saying the…

Obama’s Supposed “Religion Dilemma” and American Exceptionalism

By Sarah Posner

…of the election. “To see issues related to religious or cultural issues as central to the 2010 outcome is, we believe, a mistake,” they wrote in their analysis of the PRRI data. Yet, in a crucial caveat that these two say portends an intense culture war confrontation between the right and the left lies a potential battle among Democrats: how to react to the right’s smears that Obama is neither a genuine Christian nor a genuine American. Dionne and…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…nine co-sponsors in the Senate and was introduced in the House by Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt, who had 50 co-sponsors, including now-Minority Whip Eric Cantor, now-Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Rep. Mike Pence, who is thought to be considering a 2012 presidential run. Partners In Arms: Militias, the Religious Right, and Biblical Law The militia movement and Christian Reconstructionism both contend that our current civil government,…

Theocracy: “What Would Be So Bad About It?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing influence of the Reconstructionist movement, and how its vision became central to the contemporary religious right’s political agenda. Mind you, I’m not minimizing the crazy idea that homosexuality should be punished by death — and the point should not be lost that these Christian Reconstructionist views have contributed to the anti-gay movement — but Christian Reconstructionism is much broader, advocating a very specific ordering of family, c…

Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

By Levi McLaughlin

…s of victims who have lost their homes and loved ones line up patiently in freezing refugee camps to receive meager supplies of food and water. There are no reported cases of looting anywhere in the country, even as thousands of Tokyo blocks are left without power during scheduled blackouts. When the hungry refugees receive food, they share it with their neighbors. Cold, injured, bereaved, suffering from the onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder…

Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

By Seth Perry

…entually the missionaries embrace this metaphorical model of religion. The central female character, Nabalungi, takes Cunningham’s stories literally, and against the backdrop of her blighted village sings a wrenching song about reaching the storied paradise, Salt Lake City, where, she imagines, the warlords are friendly and the Red Cross is on every corner. Her belief inevitably leads to despair, as she learns that the paradise Cunningham has spo…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s an engaging argument. Beck is certainly right that church is no longer a central gathering place for the majority of believers and seekers. And, it seems, too, that Facebook has taken up much of the chat about “football,… good schools,… local politics,” and other matters that Beck sees as the “main draw” of routine ecclesial practice in days gone by. Yet the sneak peek Beck offers of his own research appears to undermine the argument. Not Enough…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…No longer the face of man, this is the face of a wild beast. This was the central moral challenge for Stoicism, in fact—how to avoid horrific transformations like that. This metamorphosis was not playful like Ovid’s god-inspired chicanery; it was terrifying, and all too human. The wolves outside the city walls threaten the life of the city. The wolves hidden among us may threaten the city even more. These are powerful mythic tropes, both the Gree…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…any non-Muslims offering contrary evidence as dupes, haters of America and freedom, socialists, leftists, or just “liberals.” Muslims who attempt to offer contrary views, on the other hand, simply cannot be trusted. They’re not to be trusted in treaties because they’re taught, Federer maintains, that when “Muslim armies are weak, they should seek truces and when they are strong, they should fight without mercy.” Even personally, according to Feder…