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Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…e walls of many black churches. Those same churchgoers had to rationalize that that Jesus was not like the White Man who may have been terrorizing them or cheating them as they tried to survive as sharecroppers. That means negotiating racial animus with a deft but important moral turn that says: even though the Jesus I see on this picture is white, he is not like these other white people who are impinging on my rights and life. That is huge. Simil…

Do Not Attack the Writer

By Peter Montgomery

…e one of her arguments, but goes straight to ugly name-calling, asserting that Sarah hates not only the Catholic Church (numbering her among “enemies of the Church”) but also religion in general. My dismay turned to laughter when I saw immediately below Winters’ screed the code of conduct for comments on National Catholic Reporter. His post is a primer on violating NCR’s own rules for respectful conversation. Maybe someone at NCR can give him a m…

The Return of Government as “Idolatry” and the “Second Amendment Remedies”

By Julie Ingersoll

…arly presidential primary states (South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Iowa) promoting a creationist film called The Genesis Code, and holding fundraising receptions. The moralistic film follows an unbelieving hockey player and a Christian journalism student who struggle with “reconciling their scientific studies and what’s taught in the Bible” as he falls for her and she uses their relationship to “guide” him “toward God.” You can read a “pro-famil…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d “The Rise of Latvia’s Moral Guardians,” which profiles an organizations that promote “traditional values.” A related article, “Putin’s Children,” examined how Latvian conservatives spread anti-gay myths that emerge from Russia, which include propaganda against pro-LGBT Scandinavian countries. A fight for “traditional values” has become another battlefield in the confrontation between Russia and the West. Armed with family values, mixed in with t…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…ugh they know they won’t find it? What pot of gold is there at the end of that search? What happens when you recite the last digit of pi? What’s it like to hold the infinite in your hand? “When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun,” said Max in Pi. “So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…grave and to do the analysis on his remains. That paradox led me to think that what we’re asking of DNA is more than just the “truth” of it (and truth in quotes because there are lots of things that are provisional about the technology). What does DNA add? I think it can add a deeper sense of history. If you’re doing genetic ancestry testing—bracketing for a moment the veracity of the test—what these inferences provide can often be long histories….

Conservative Catholic Elites Oppose Trump… as He Rides Catholic Vote to Victory in Michigan

By Patricia Miller

…ates like Michigan, which he won handily yesterday. A pre-primary poll in that state found that Trump had the support of 52% of Catholic Republicans versus 42% overall. Ted Cruz’s brand of crazy “constitutional” conservatism pulled only 11% of Catholics, and poor little Marco, who actually is Catholic, captured only 16% of the Catholic vote. As Silk notes: Michigan Catholics are concentrated in the southeastern part of the state where deindustrial…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…rade ORU has faced some criticism since introducing the Fibit. Some argue that Fitbits aren’t actually that good at measuring heart rate and physical activity, and—as a cartoon in ORU’s student newspaper pointed out—users can also game the system by, for example, attaching the band to a hyperactive squirrel. More have criticized the policy for seeming, as Rob Quinn puts it, more “Orwell than Oral.” Why, then, does ORU continue to require its stude…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…a group of like-minded people, I found somebody I fell in love with? No, that’s not surprising.” “How does that make it any different than not being Catholic?” asks Harrington. “Why would you even go on a Catholic dating site if you really didn’t believe in most of what is taught, except for maybe it’s a cultural thing?” The “cultural thing,” though, is important to a lot of people. “Sarah,” who asked not to be identified, has dated atheists but…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…icrobe cells, mutated cells. We are built, too, of our parents, of genetic code and flesh and blood and bones that grow inside of flesh and blood and bones. So we come again to the parents: “There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer,” Hazel tells us. Green, who is now the parent of two children, told The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot, that his own…