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Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

…s of the embryo and fetus and there is broad agreement on what is called “delayed ensoulment.” That was code for saying that the fetus does not attain to personal status until it is well formed. Early miscarriages could not be named or given religious funerals. Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas held that the early fetus had the moral status of a plant, and that not even God could infuse a spiritual, person-making soul until the fetus was develop…

Bonnaroo 3: With a Buzz in Our Ears

By E. David Morgen

…f sound and flesh that cannot be located in a dictionary. It might be a stretch to suggest that this rhythm is in time with sacred chants of the world over, but that was something of the power we felt as the warm bodies around us hung on the notes of Icelandic or Hopelandic or whatever “Gobbledigook” contains. We do know one thing for certain. The band’s newest album is titled Meo suo í eyrum vio spilum endalaust, meaning “with a buzz in our ears…

Listening and Supporting: The Spirituality of Nurses

By Wendy Cadge

…als that might help their loved one. Many Americans draw on spiritual and religious beliefs to cope when a loved one is ill, both to try make sense of illness and to hope for recovery. Large numbers of Americans pray, and a recent survey published in the Archives of Surgery reported that close to 60% of the public and 20% of medical professionals think someone in a persistent vegetative state can be saved by a miracle. In the neonatal ICU, it was…

The End of Michele Bachmann?

By Sarah Posner

…rrant your urgent attention.” Setting aside the fact that Bachmann et al. rely entirely on Gaffney—who has been dismissed by fellow conservatives as a “crazy bigot”—for their unsubstantiated claim that Abedin has Brotherhood ties, their supposed proof of the Brotherhood’s theocratic ambitions in the United States is a fabrication. For her proof, Bachmann cites an exhibit from the US government’s prosecution in the Holy Land Foundation terror finan…

In its Battle for ‘Life’ the Antiabortion Movement is Willing to Expose its Enemies to Death — And There’s an Old Christian Theology that Supports Them

By Beatrice Marovich

…death. Protecting one another from death means acknowledging that life itself—surviving, staying alive, helping the living thrive—is a constant negotiation of complex and confusing life-death tensions. It means acknowledging that the choices we make—including the choice to give birth—carries the risk of death. And, in many instances, protecting and caring for life will mean we ensure that a birth does not happen. To think about life and death as…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…lovelorn concur: reading the Times wedding pages is periodical porn. Where else are subjects still celebrated for who they are the “son of” and “daughter of”? Where else are parents confirmed, publicly, that dropping $40,000 a year on a liberal arts education may pay off with the Gray Lady’s regard? The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything (2006) summarizes the essential outline of an announcement: Mention your alma maters, cur…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…-LGBT religious activists are expanding their global reach, including the relatively small and extreme group MassResistance, which has boasted in recent months about helping anti-equality activists in Mexico and launching a new chapter in Nigeria. Last Tuesday, the group wrote about the assistance it is providing Christian groups who are opposing the advance of marriage equality in Taiwan. BuzzFeed, the polling firm Ipsos, and the Williams Institu…

The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ering in light of haredi responses to Modern Orthodoxy’s accommodationist religiosity. The modern religious community claims the haredi readings are antiquated. That may be true. But they fail to see the ways in which the Judaism they defend is structurally, albeit not always practically, identical to the Judaism they criticize. Many of the same individuals protesting against the segregationist beliefs of the Beit Shemesh haredim pray in synagogue…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…o playbooks which rely on the demonization of entire groups of people, it relies on the same eliminatory principles. Between 1993 and 2016 eleven people were murdered by anti-abortion extremists, and there were 26 attempted murders; and between 1977 and 2015 there were 7,200 reported instances of anti-abortion violence. This includes some 200 instances of arson and bombings of abortion clinics. And, even with legislation passed in their favor, the…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…e made in the committee hearing on the bill last week. “If you look at the code, these codes are dealing with illegal acts. Now, abortion is a legal act. So this has got nothing to do with abortion.” Here is the bill in its entirety: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. Th…