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Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…eepest respect for Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of Dignity USA, the Catholic LGBT organization. I rejoice that Erin Saiz Hanna, another tireless worker, runs the Women’s Ordination Conference. I take my hat off to Marissa Valeri, who is a stalwart organizer at Catholics for Choice. All of these committed women, like the sisters, are lay women but happen to be married, most with children. I think most of the nuns would call them “si…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…George; the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Personhood USA, the national organization pushing ballot measures declaring fertilized eggs persons; and Champion the Vote, the get-out-the-vote project of United in Purpose, the non-profit organization funded by Silicon Valley venture capitalists which, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, “is using sophisticated data-mining techniques to compile a database of every unregi…

RD10Q: Living Without God

By Ronald Aronson

…in order to form a significant political force. I’ve been doing this since, in USA Today, in The Nation, in other articles and interviews. I’ve just completed an op-ed to President Obama thanking him for mentioning nonbelievers in his inauguration address but pointing out that he’s treated us as invisible during the campaign and calling for him to lead the nation in developing a genuinely multicultural sensibility towards nonbelievers as well as…

Oklahoma Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Personhood Ballot Initiative UPDATED

By Katie Toth

…dy decided the issue. Personhood Oklahoma, a state affiliate of Personhood USA, filed the ballot initiative on March 1. If the initiative had not been blocked by the state Supreme Court, they would have had until the end of May to gather the 15,000 required signatures to have the measure appear as a state question. The initiative was similar to a proposed amendment that was rejected by Mississippi voters last year. When former presidential candida…

A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist

By Bradley Onishi

…is argument. Moreover, his frustration at not being able to hear the voices, anger, or dreams of supposed Christian nationalists in survey data is another rhetorical sleight of hand. Surveys aren’t meant to communicate those things. He’s claiming, in effect, that the milkman didn’t deliver any orange juice—and then leading the reader to think that this must be a failure on the part of the milkman, instead of the child on the stoop waiting for some…

Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

By Eric Reitan

…d out of office. If not, the nation itself is in dire jeopardy. In this way, then, the religion of fear becomes a powerful tool for motivating people to serve partisan political agendas. If one party or faction represents the will of God, then appeasing God requires religious communities to throw themselves into politics with the aim of ensuring that the right faction wins. And if the wrong faction wins, it’s a disaster. The enemies of God have wo…

Seeing What They Wanna See: Religion Surveys Reflect Surveyors

By Nathan Schneider

…released on March 9 with a front-page story in USA Today. For the last week, his phone ringing off the hook, Kosmin has become a lightning-rod for anxiety about the decline of American religiosity. “Whoever doesn’t win the election is going to complain about voting fraud,” he says with a chuckle. In its first two days online, the ARIS’ 26-page summary report [pdf], authored by Kosmin and his Trinity College colleague Ariela Keysar, scored 40,000 d…

We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…riously. Chelsea Andrews criticized Liberty for hiring an athletic director, Ian McCaw, who’d left his position at Baylor precisely because of his department’s failure to act on sexual assault complaints. Unsolicited, Freeze messaged Andrews that she didn’t know what she was talking about and that McCaw was “the most Jesus-like” leader he’d been around. These rapid restorations fit a common pattern: First, a powerful and highly compensated White m…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…ll you girl you are one in a million! GOD BLESS YOU MY DEAREST! Carolyn, AZ, USA Just as some Millerites recovered from disappointment, reinterpreted their beliefs, and founded the Seventh Day Adventists, it seems likely that Goodchild’s beliefs will also continue in some form. Such is the way of strong, millennial faith. For his part, Herb was confident as he prepared to leave. He didn’t want to say too much because he didn’t want to cloud my eye…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…a magazine is supported by the Jesuits, and its former editor, Thomas Reese, SJ, was pressured into resigning due to objections to magazine content from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at the time headed by the same Cardinal Ratzinger. As a news outlet supported by a religious society, the magazine tends to strive for a neutral point of view. Matt Malone, SJ, its current editor in chief, banned the terms “conservative” and “liberal…