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The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…Roman Catholic theology and knew that the church made no exception to its teaching that Catholics could never use artificial methods of contraception. The only acceptable form of birth control for Catholics, both then and now, is natural family planning, which relies on calculating a women’s infertile period during her menstrual cycle and only having sex on those days. The “rhythm method,” as natural family planning was called in the early 1960s,…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…e priest. After expressing her concerns to Sister Aloysius, the principal reaches a bleak conclusion about what has happened: Flynn gave the boy communion wine and then molested him. When the two nuns confront Flynn, he grudgingly offers a tight-lipped explanation: Donald was caught drinking communion wine, and Flynn, fearing that he might be removed from the altar boys or even expelled, hoped to keep the matter quiet. The boy had expressed intere…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…Roman Catholic theology and knew that the church made no exception to its teaching that Catholics could never use artificial methods of contraception. The only acceptable form of birth control for Catholics, both then and now, is natural family planning, which relies on calculating a women’s infertile period during her menstrual cycle and only having sex on those days. The “rhythm method,” as natural family planning was called in the early 1960s,…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…vingly shared a tweet, “at least 1 ‘bus load’ of Antifa thugs infiltrated peaceful Trump demonstrators.” Conservative media influencers like Charlie Kirk eagerly amplified, while Sarah Palin declared on Fox News, “A lot of it is the antifa folks.” High priests of White evangelicals were not to be left out; Eric Metaxas began waving his retweeting wand to magically transform Trump supporters into heroes “pulling Antifa terrorists away from the buil…

How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

By Daniel Silliman

…” model—if I can make a generalization here—when you had individual Bible reading, the person who is superintending your interpretation of the Bible and saying whether you’re believing the right thing or the wrong thing is your minister. And your minister knows what’s correct based on going to seminary. That belief is then superintended by a theological tradition that precedes that credentialing. All these things bear on what the proper interpreta…

The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…reflection on what we actually have in mind. “The Bible says”… “the Bible teaches”… “the Bible shows”… these are quite common ways to ground arguments about a wide range of moral and political and theological issues among Christians in the United States today. The shortcomings of such a perspective are evident once we stop to think about it. The Bible, after all (by which I mean the Christian Bible) is an eclectic combination of many books produce…

We May Be Sacrificing Our Children to the God of the Gun — But it’s Not That the God Requires the Deaths

By Stephanie Frank

…ested that ritual did not placate or celebrate a pre-existing god, but instead created the god by placating or celebrating him. As Ivan Strenski and others have shown, part of Hubert and Mauss’ project was intervening in the central political issue of their moment in France. The Dreyfus Affair pertained to the scapegoating of a Jewish military officer as a traitor but its discourse laid bare a constellation of much broader attitudes about sacrific…

Magic v. Science: Doctor Who Part III

By Gabriel Mckee

…r the same reason that environmentalists in North America combat the snakehead fish. Finally, it is fitting that Calvierri offers an alliance with the Doctor. Like the vampire, the Doctor is also an immortal outsider walking among us. He too has unnatural abilities and is alluring to the opposite sex. The vampire then is the shadow of the Doctor—a theme that will be explored further in the next episode. James F. McGrath_______________ Vampires v…

The Redemptive Power of Jewish Self-Hatred

By Gordon Haber

…riarch, Herr Aarenhold, who collects expensive old books that he does not read; for his wife, an “ugly” woman with an ostentatious necklace “upon her shrunken breast.” The Aarenhold’s four grown children are charmless and hypercritical; Mann makes much of their “sallow” skin and “hooked” noses; as he puts it, the “facial characteristics” of their “race.” But what’s significant about the story, aside from how much the author hates these characters,…

The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight

By David Walker

…he faces of both a Sophie and a Stanley, all-the-while encouraging them reread Nietzsche on the way home from the theatre if only to distract them from the thought that they had just been “taken” for the cost of a decent meal. Was the movie worth the ticket price? I think so, but then again I am a fan of stage-magic history and (references to) Nietzsche. And I’m less inclined than others to complain about Magic in the Moonlight being a “hollow she…