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US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…where honest, probing questions about faith and belief can be raised and discussed.” Similarly, in the conference’s keynote address, theologian Sr. Ilia Delio stressed belief as an open, dynamic, and evolving system and urged the sisters to continually renew and reconsider the role and nature of religious life (pertinent, as the majority of American sisters are elderly), focus on diversity and exploration over sameness, and continue to work for th…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…” Shukla explains that “while there always have been and now are a growing number of scholars who are committed to presenting emic understandings of Hinduism, we find each year that the ‘in crowd’ created by Doniger at the AAR has yet to shift in terms of power and influence.” In light of this information, she reprimands the AAR for their support of the work and a failure to encourage academic integrity. As a Religious Studies major before law sch…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…troduce the two Vagaggini essays, to put them in context with the modern discussion about women in the diaconate. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? Quite a few people—most of them higher clerics—have written off the notion of ordaining women as deacons, perhaps because they fear women in the priesthood, which the Church has pretty definitively ruled out. Canon Law very clearly separates the diaconate from priesthood and…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…mer employee of Copeland, is ordained with the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches (CEEC), a small offshoot unrelated to the main Episcopal denomination. The CEEC also ordained Gene Ewing, creator of St. Matthew’s Churches, who for decades has been running a direct-mail operation sending out gaudy, gimmicky letters (with prayer cloths, holy water from the Jordan and holy oil) promising riches and healing for anyone desperate enough to send…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…t Congress believed that the Clarification Act would clear up any future discrepancies. (Quick digression: Warren brags about living in the same house for decades. Despite an hour of ferocious Googling, I was unable to find out specific information about the place. But here are some Orange County rentals with the same market value in 2014 dollars. They’re not mansions, but they’re a lot nicer than any place I’ve ever lived in.) Back to the FFRF su…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…through which it interprets its historical experience in the light of transcendent reality” I asked myself why not fantasy dissent? Why not fantasy picketing? And then the fantasy came to my neighborhood in a very real form. And I have been asking myself: Should I keep it to fantasy, since, unlike Fred Phelps and his minions (oh, I mean family, or do I mean church?) progressives and reasonable people show some discretion in the enactment of our…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…ot speaking up, for remaining quiet—while you get your work, vacations and scholarship done this summer. Meanwhile, I try to hold it together to write a 800-word piece without crying and wanting to tear my hair out about the pain of my people. I’m not writing prophetic words to you anymore. You fix this shit. I’m done carrying the cross of America, its false promises of democracy and inclusion, the documents that excluded me and called my ancestor…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…ral into the darkest corners of the most vile conspiracy theories not only score political points but boost ratings and give Beck another scalp, like that of ACORN or Van Jones. Beck might very well be harboring delusions that he could bring down what he claims is the most powerfully dangerous satanic force on earth. While Beck claims to be an opponent of the genocidal Nazi regime, and a great supporter of Jews, as Alexander Zaitchik wrote in Comm…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…se, his funeral last October was the largest in the country’s history, with 800,000 Israelis attending. In the past month, Rabbi Noam Perel, head of Bnei Akiva, the largest Jewish religious youth group in the world, called for the mass-murder of Palestinians and for their foreskins to be scalped and brought back as trophies, alluding to an episode in the Book of Samuel; and a Jerusalem city councillor, in charge of security, encouraged a crowd to…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…traditional or religious values cannot be invoked to justify any form of discrimination, including discrimination against LGBTI persons. These laws should be reconsidered as soon as possible. The European Union reaffirms its commitment to the equality and dignity of all human beings irrespective of their sexual orientation and gender identity. We will continue to work to end all forms of discrimination and to counter attempts to embed or enhance d…