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A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…operly as he had saved as much life as was possible. Fr. Haring asked: by what thinking could the fetus have such a right to life that it could kill both itself and the woman by exercising it? Such rights, he said, do not exist. Alicja Tysiac, in 2000, was advised that her pregnancy, if it went to term, would cause blindness. She was forbidden to abort and lost nearly all her eyesight. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in her favor saying s…

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…veral times. I thought all Christians did that sort of thing. Finding out that I was wrong about that, including the fact that there were Christians who supported capital punishment [see related blog post: “Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis?” —ed.], prompted all sorts of questions for me. Second, the historic jail in downtown Pittsburgh. On a tour of the facility, I was told that the jail was modeled on earlier Pennsylvania penal inst…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…s piece in the NY Times, “The Changing Face of the Burning Man Festival,” that ran on Burning Man’s opening day. It turns out that the Burning Man organization will be shifting from a for-profit company to a nonprofit. How much will the payout be to the six owners? Burners want to know. Those who gripe about the degeneration of Burning Man into a consumer event could add this sale to a long list of complaints: rules and more rules, opaque finances…

The Value of Crazy-Making Dialogue

By Daniel Schultz

…m away from God. The UCC way of thinking about it, rightly or wrongly, is that that would be wrong. Better to have them ditch the “Father” than to exclude them from the faith. Other churches have different views on these questions. Orthodox Christians and many Catholics would look at that situation and ask “If you can’t all agree that God is Father, how can you say that you share the same faith?” It’s not easy, is the short answer. Because I don’t…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…hat this is perhaps 1909 or 1939, but certainly not within our lifetime). Whatever it was that happened, it could not have been entirely pretty: Seems every castle is made of sand The Great Destroyer sleeps in every man Here comes my baby, here comes my man With the silver dagger in his hand. And how can all these stories of barroom girls, morphine addicts, rape victims, murdering ghosts, and lost friends be told with such precise harmonies (with…

Birtherism, Satire, “Natural Born Citizen,” and Deuteronomy

By Sarah Posner

…born citizen” is all over the place. John Lofton, ITOC spokesperson and a promoter of Titus’ theory, reiterated to me today that in their view, the birth certificate doesn’t matter at all. Lofton, who has been critical of WND for emphasizing the birth certificate issue, seemed pleased that the “natural born citizen” theory figured so prominently in Corsi’s new book. Corsi doesn’t cite Titus, but Titus has been pushing this harebrained business fo…

Royal Wedding Ceremony Quite Dated, Hats Notwithstanding

By Mary E. Hunt

…wife.” Every commentator I heard repeated it piously as if it were true. What happened to the husband? Some will argue that it is a matter of translation, but so are a lot of sexist images from the Bible and church history. Now we try to call things by their names. “Husband and wife” is a more accurate description of the reality and something that signifies the equality of the two. Small matter? Yes, only if you are not the wife. Third, and this…

Sarah Palin to Tour Israel, Christian-Style

By Anthea Butler

…hs, it remains to be seen if she will throw her hat in the ring for 2012. What is clear though is that she is not going to play primary politics the same way that the other Republicans presidential hopefuls are. By continuing to take events that are either religious, patriotic, or pay-to-play dates, Palin can still suck all of the media air out of the room without declaring her intent, while her followers can organize underneath the eyes of the me…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…ke a Tibetan!’” enthused Hibbits’ friend, before pulling out the green Mao hat that had been snatched from his head and shredded by China supporters. When he was attacked, Hibbits said, he stood by silently with his hands clasped in front of him: “The non-action of me being dressed this way incites them to violence.” Watching the streetscape from the base of a towering palm tree was a group of actual Tibetan Buddhist monks from San Jose. “The Dala…

When Children’s Literature is Not Defined by “Innocence”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…about religion, memory, and children’s literature became my way of doing that. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? From 1945 to the present, Jewish and African Americans were grafted into greater American civic acceptance through their children’s stories—especially those stories with overtones of suffering, exodus, and sacrifice—in modes that have long been part of the grand narratives of American religious history. I don’t s…