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Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…One is the unprecedented ideological polarization of the church. There are today two distinct Catholic populations: one progressive-leaning population that supports the church’s social justice mission and the pope’s call for environmental stewardship, but largely ignores the church’s teaching on sex and family issue; and a conservative-leaning population that’s on board with the church’s anti-abortion message (though not as much with it’s oppositi…

Tea Partiers Say Slavery Not Race-Related

By Julie Ingersoll

…been a favorite for Christian schools and home schoolers (and among Reconstructionists—though Skousen himself is a Mormon, free market, Austrian school guy). So, Slavery Was Not About Race? As I understand it, the fight over the degree to which America was “founded as a Christian Nation,” is a fight over our mythic understanding of ourselves. I don’t mean myth in the popular sense—as in “myths are widely held to be true but actually are not.” Rath…

A Republican House Will Launch “Witch Hunt” on Science

By Lauri Lebo

…that hasn’t even been able to garner the political goodwill to pass modest market-based cap and trade incentives for industry polluters. This is truly disturbing. If Republicans follow through with their plan, it sounds like we could be in for a witch hunt against science. And I suspect it’s unlikely that the attacks on science would end with energy policy. Many of the same people who question the scientific validity of climate change also seem to…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

…frauded parishioners in a Ponzi scheme. Archaeologists unearthed an 1800-year-old statue of the Buddha in India. In Iowa, a pastor is praying that the IRS comes after his church for his political campaign against three Iowa Supreme Court judges who ruled to allow same-sex marriages. The American Family Association has joined in the campaign against the judges. Finally, the words of one of the Chilean miners rescued after 69 days trapped in a mine:…

Comics will Ruin Your Mind

By Hussein Rashid

…culturally diverse team of heroes. So here is a New Yorker—inspired by an American art form, who sees no difference between his Muslim and his American values—being vilified by the conservative noise machine for wanting to export those values around the world. At this point I feel like I should confess that I am a huge fan of The 99. I have been on panels with Naif, and his work is a big part of my current research project. I believe in his visio…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…nchanted, and thoroughly alienated from the old notion that any leader is trustworthy? What if that quiddity we used to understand as civic capital has melted away completely? I doubt that the heroic model of leadership was ever very adequate for a healthy democratic society, and now it fails us utterly. Civic leadership during our particular End Times means entering into real common-ground conversation with our neighbors. Entering with one’s own…

Seek and Ye Shall Find… Anti-Gay Views

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r.” It’s wise to know what the other voices are saying about things in the world. If we cut ourselves off from other views that make us uncomfortable or may offend us in some way, we simply create a world with deeper and deeper intolerance for anyone considered “other” or “sinful,” or “sick,” or “profane.” Biased search engines are just one more way that humanity is finding ways to deny one ultimate truth: human life is messy. Neatly dividing life…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…cketing) were protected by the First Amendment. So that’s where things are today and the Supreme Court will hear arguments on October 6. That the words of the Phelps and their tiny Westboro Baptist Church are vile, disgusting and insanely cruel to poor Albert Snyder and his family is not debatable. Clearly, that’s been established. My heart breaks for the man for what he has endured in the past three years. Rather, the issue here is whether those…

Welcome to the “Career College” Scam

By Peter Laarman

…so-called proprietary colleges or trade schools. Like the sleazy one that runs incessant and obnoxious infomercials on cable television: American Career College. These schools do especially well with naïve and needy young people by advertising that they will do all of the paperwork, they will process the loans, and they will guarantee a job upon completion. Can you guess which two of these three promises are true? But the Government Accounting Of…

Are Tea Partiers Pro-Gay and Pro-Choice?

By Sarah Posner

…ence, he’s saying that Democrats will get conservative religious voters to run from the tea parties by convincing those voters that the tea partiers are actually more like the dreaded Democrats than they initially thought. But beyond this questionable advice, Sapp misapprehends the tea party movement and its historical roots. He relies on an April New York Times/CBS poll for his statement that the “Tea Party is mostly Pro-Choice.” That poll, as I…