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In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…around in Washington DC and New York City, we hear about the “Pope-Soap-On-A-Rope” but not the people who work in Catholic schools for low wages. We see T-shirts for papal teddy bears, but no hint of the impact of the Vatican’s policy banning the use of condoms, even for those who are HIV-infected. Whether it is a Sunday morning talk show, the front page of a newspaper, or the evening news, I continue to be amazed at how little the Vatican press…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…divide the world into an ever-shrinking cadre of ideologically pure, litmus-tested allies and the remainder, a world of enemies to be defeated. This mindset has generated some surprising parallels between the left and the right. Compare for example, two strikingly similar responses to “Come Let Us Reason Together”: one by Tony Perkins, head of the James Dobson-affiliated Family Research Council, a key organization on the religious right, and one b…

Liberal or Literal? James Wood, Terry Eagleton, and the New Atheism

By Nancy Frankenberry

…t critic James Wood’s recent, provocative essay/review of Terry Eagleton’s new book, itself a broadside against the New Atheists, in particular Richard Dawkins. Readers who are scholars of religion were puzzled, too. What exactly are Wood’s own views, and what do they tell us about the way “religion” is regarded by certain public intellectuals? Since we are already riding piggyback here, I will ignore Eagleton’s and Dawkins’ books in order to expo…

Ted Haggard’s New Church: Gay-Friendly?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lation, would come to an intimate understanding of how the gay and lesbian community feels about the church—how those who claim to follow Christ will turn their backs on you when you need them the most. In that shunning, I had hoped that Haggard might arrive at a new place—where he would realize how painful that is for the person shunned and vow to never, ever do that to anyone if he were ever back in the position to lead a church. It’s disappoint…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…enhanced. Our use of technology can thus enrich and extend meaningful face-to-face relationships rather than necessarily excluding or otherwise diminishing them. It is the blurring of the virtual/real boundary that made me so pleased when one of my digital besties, Pastor Keith Anderson, stole a moment from the celebration of his own incarnation to share a link to the most recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “The Social Sid…

In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…cepts the constraints of structural racism that can be overcome on a person-by-person basis through rededication to education, improved work ethic, and commitment to personal responsibility. The minimizing of structural racism in favor of personal responsibility and cultural pathology is a favored talking point in Black conservative ideology and it’s one that has considerable traction within segments of the African-American community. However, the…

Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America

By Marian Ronan

…ed the emerging Catholic middle class. Furthermore, in order to secure near-free labor for his schools, the archbishop forced the Sisters of Charity to shift the majority of their members into staffing them instead of engaging in more direct service to the poor, their historic mission. But why bring this up now? Isn’t it mean-spirited to bring up details about things that happened long ago? Not exactly. Not long after his article in America, Archb…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…en before about what results: That framework inevitably supports the powers-that-be. In his book The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann draws a connection between what he calls “the religion of static triumphalism” and “the politics of oppression and exploitation.” He gives Exodus an analysis of power: Karl Marx had discerned the connection [mentioned above] when he observed that the criticism of religion is the ultimate criticism and must…

The Bad Religion at the Heart of GOP Healthcare Policy

By Peter Laarman

…red health savings accounts. And it goes without saying that the insurance companies and health providers are totally free to suck out your blood. State authority on insurance matters: Where to begin with this one? “States’ rights” has an obvious and nasty racial history. It was hardly surprising that most of the states that refused to expand Medicaid or adopt exchanges represent the Old Confederacy and the Wild West. We might breathe a momentary…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ections to the requirement that their health insurance plans provide co-pay-free contraception to their employees. According to Sara Hutchinson, policy director for Catholics for Choice, and Jon O’Brien, the group’s president, administration officials told activists on the call that they would require insurance companies (but not the employers) to provide separate coverage for co-pay-free contraceptives, but not as part of the insurance plan that…