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Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…ews Are Now the Powerful Masters How and why this transformation happened will be grist for historians’ mills for a long time to come. We’re still too close to its beginnings for historians, or anyone else, to explain it very well. The best we can do is begin to map out the territory. One way to begin mapping any movement is to look at its landmark books, authored by its most prominent writers. The most obvious landmark in this case is The Crisis…

New Poll: Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…commissioned by the largest organization fighting for LGBT rights, but the numbers [pdf] show that the sample actually skewed right. Of the 800 registered voters polled 38 percent were strong, weak, or independent-leaning Democrats with 41 percent identifying as strong, weak, or independent leaning Republicans. Conservatives outweighed liberals by 38 to 18 percent, and a full 74 percent of those polled identified as religious. Some 40 percent clai…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hat the group has hired an election attorney and is confident the measure will still appear on the ballot. (Ms. Mason is also the Communications Director for Personhood USA, the Colorado-based umbrella group coordinating the state personhood efforts.) The amendment’s text would make it illegal to intentionally kill “any innocent person”—with “person” defined as “every human being regardless of the method of creation,” and “human being” defined as…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…s, however, what we are being asked to do in our current conflict. All of a sudden the world is looking to us.” Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers, coders, interns, and editors. And will earn you our endless gratitude….

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…o reconsider—citing the possible repercussions to the AAS’ reputation. It will be outstepping AAS’ role if AAS allows the selection of keynote speaker for 2014 conf. and gets critiqued for allowing the forums of the body to interfere with the laws in many Asian states and thus interfere with the friendly and constructive relations between non-Asian Asian states (sic). In an effort to combat the support of the American Academy of Religion, the Hind…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…Rachel Dolezal). Speaking of another White girl: remember when war-monger Hillary Clinton ran for office? Regardless of what one thinks of her terrible international policies, she was on the receiving end of some horrific misogyny. As a Black woman Harris will receive all that misogyny—but with additional adjectives. Misogynoir is basically sexism with a side helping of anti-Black racism aimed at Black women. Unlike getting something good for your…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…ur next book? I am planning a book about the works of the women in history who ministered as deacons. But, before that, I will be running a four-week Massive Online Open Seminar (MOOS) on the past, present and future considerations of Catholic women deacons. The seminar will be online and free, and will include video presentations by myself, by William T. Ditewig, Ph.D. and by Gary Macy, Ph.D. This book and an earlier book featured on RD, Women De…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…lenge of the National Conservative movement for the American Left. Catholic natural law requires an illiberal state. Until liberals become comfortable with an alternative conception of power, equally robust, but more fully grounded in an ethics of fairness and equality, it will remain difficult to meet the challenges from the Christian Right. In the meantime, First Things will continue to thrive within its niche as a rooted redoubt of reaction aga…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…ng every trick to milk desperate people out of their money. The mailings still take in millions of dollars every month, though the group has lost its tax-exempt status several times. • A cursory search of property records show James and Betty Robison live in a “modest” Texas home appraised by Tarrant County tax-assessors at $742,800. They also own one or more multi-million-dollar homes in Silverthorne, Colo., and have access to their large Robison…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…s, who want the IRS to require churches and religious organizations to fulfill the same obligations as other nonprofit groups. Currently most nonprofits are required to file Form 990, “Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax.” The upshot is that their finances are public record. But religious groups don’t have to bother, which, obviously, can allow for a lot of financial chicanery. The loss in tax revenue from such groups is estimated to be…