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A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ntoninus was the premier moral theologian on the subject of sex and marriage. He approved of early abortions when necessary to save the life of the woman—a large category in the medical and hygienic conditions of his day. Far from having been condemned he was canonized a saint in 1523. His feast day is on May 10. I would like to raise funds to make 3,000 statues of St. Antoninus to send to all the world’s Catholic bishops, with an extra large one…

Cozy Cottage or House on Fire? Thomas Kinkade’s Theo-Aesthetic Legacy

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…was distant. Thomas Kinkade, The Mountains Declare His Glory Romanticism offers little respite from the overwhelming power of nature—viewers remain in awe, stripped down by the awesome spectacle. To the contrary, Kinkade, who grew up near Yosemite, shows a natural landscape, but offers places of rest for the nature-weary: gazebos, village chapels, cozy cottages. While Cole’s and Bierstadt’s nature could kill a man, Kinkade allows a world that in…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…ization has an app that helps connect people with Shabbat dinners. It also offers “nourishment credits”—at $15 per head—to pay for bringing in food. Potential dinner hosts can meet with a designated Shabbat coach skilled at helping “elevate your dinner party to a Shabbat dinner experience.” The Schusterman Family Foundation has TableMakers, which offers a Pinterest-happy toolkit, and some subsidies, for people trying to plan big, elaborate Shabbat…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…supposed to unfold, and rather than coming to ruin, she dies just short of 103 surrounded by adoring friends and acolytes. In that sense, she’s a model for the efficacy of the system she taught. There is a subtly feminist message in some of her books, particularly her first one, Forever Young, Forever Healthy, which came out in 1953. As anyone who has read The Feminine Mystique knows, the self-help books of the time often told women their sufferi…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…try, who believes he would serve it well, who believes that he is the best American for the job. And since all Americans are assumed to be, at base, Judeo-Christian, then it is no lie at all to say that he is, at base, a good Christian man. And so he is. A good Christian man. He says it, and we have to believe him. We, the scholars. You, the voters. We believe him against the evidence because it feels better to believe that his life—his survival,…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of Scotland has fallen drastically from 35 percent down to 20. Catholicism, 15 percent and other Christian denominations, 11 percent, remained at a similar level. In addition, the percentage of those who say they are religious but non-Christian, remains at 2 percent. In May the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will consider whether married gay people should be allowed to become ministers or deacons. Canada: Gay Atheist Malaysian Student…

Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

…the reason that people in the congregation have become sick and died (1 Cor 11:30). Driscoll is condemned for creating a toxic culture of abusive church discipline, in which offenders were ejected from the church and cut off from fellowship with members, yet Paul offers an almost identical admonition to the Corinthians regarding a man who was engaged in sexual immorality in their midst (1 Cor 5). Driscoll’s sermons have taken heat for their misogy…

Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value

By Rhiannon Graybill and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…information only to his disciples who are men (e.g., Mark 6:7, 31, 45; 9:2, 10; 10:32; 14:17, 33). Women in the gospels work harder to get Jesus’s attention—especially the one whom Jesus calls a dog (Mark 7:24-30). This Syrophoenician woman is often hailed as an empowering example for women, but the truth is that she’s strong and resilient not because of how Jesus treated her but in spite of how Jesus treated her. Jesus heals women, but the healed…

Sorry, National Review: “Religious Freedom” Bills Do Permit Bigotry

By Sunnivie Brydum

…who hold this particular religious belief about the beginning of life, but offers no accommodation for Americans who have differing and sincerely held religious convictions about the point when life begins. It’s hard to single out one particular claim that emerges as the most absurd in the piece, but the allegation that “the truth” has been obfuscated by the left may well take the cake (just not to a gay wedding, of course). After directly equatin…

The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure

By The Editors

…rican Pilgrimage by Varun Soni “Truckin’’” is not just the narrative of an American band on the road, but it is also an aspiration for a uniquely American adventure where the road trip is a pilgrimage and the real journey is one of self-discovery. _____________ Special thanks to Nicholas Meriwether at the Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz as well as to photographers Herb Greene and Susana Millman for graciously allowing us access to their wor…