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Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…bably a jump in reports of apparitions and manifestations of the Virgin. Rumors of miracles and visions now fly around the globe via the internet, rather than moving locally through the whispers of neighbors and friends, as both Paolo Apolito has pointed out. International pilgrimages are much easier now, at least for the middle class that can afford plane tickets to Medjugorje and Civitavecchia. Pilgrims learn from major apparition sites exactly…

Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…lling to change your mind. We’d be happy to meet any time. * * * [See also Fred Clarkson’s Four Canards about Abortion Reduction, Mark Silk’s Commongroundniks and Digby’s Compromise for more perspectives. —ed]…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…ill have to give a little. Actually, there is no such thing as both sides. Most people use a cafeteria approach to the morality of the immigration issue. We pick and choose. The first step towards consensus would be to stop thinking in that binary way and to start thinking expansively and extravagantly and realistically. Extravagant creative realists will own the future of this debate. Those who want to welcome immigrants will have to understand t…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…t, fool me twice—my fault. With destabilizing governments, weaker borders, more transnational movements, and an al-Qaeda that would love to swoop in and take advantage of the situation, the situation will likely, as the Arabist reported, get a lot worse. I don’t think Egypt’s headed for a civil war, but the return of a military-police state means some kind of an insurgency, albeit one it’ll be ever harder to put down. Egypt is basically bankrupt,…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…safety net, the choices marginalized groups will have to make will become more and more difficult. If one does become pregnant due to lack of access to birth control, legislation like the Hyde Amendment makes it nearly impossible for a low-income person to exercise their constitutional right to abortion. Privileged white women usually have another option available even if the safety net isn’t there. Women of color, LGBTQ women, undocumented women…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…e, yet so explosive, is its lack of a “core ideology.” Rather, it rallies around emotionalism. Quoting Paxton, he writes that if fascism happens here, it will be distinctly American and devoid of the trappings of 20th-century European fascism: Americans might support an enterprise of forcible national regeneration, unification and purification. Its targets would be the First Amendment, separation of Church and State (crèches on the lawns, prayers…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…. Olivia Perry’s parents watch her infant daughter while she takes a brief trip to visit to her sister Emily’s modeling shoot—which she and her older sister Audrey end up being part of. Tawni Koloff, as part of a slumber party with her sisters, gets a tattoo while their mother Victoria is out of town. Victoria is not a fan of tattoos; she sees them as being at odds with treating one’s body as a temple. So here’s the thing: I wish that Christian re…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…ie Green, widely regarded as a modern-day prophet within NAR circles, was among the most highly anticipated speakers at the rally. She claims to channel God’s voice, often while on stage. I watched audience members literally move to the edge of their seats to better catch her every word. She also serves as a spiritual advisor to Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano who has well-documented ties to the apocalyptic gun-churc…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…Mike Pence. With only about 100 buses permitted for the city, compared to 1,800 for the Women’s March, organizers are suddenly claiming it’s not about the numbers after all. March for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. A…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ate lawyer. Two years later, I enrolled in law school only to leave within months. There were many reasons why, but among them was this: I could no longer go down the path I’d imagined, a quiet professional life in suburban America. This realization grew from the first impulse to grip our city that day, a desire to help, in whatever way possible, in the face of horrific attack; it was a mark of a courage and goodness common to New Yorkers of all t…