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Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…y obtuse to not pick up on the message that the Catholic bishops, in their bulk, preferred Reagan over Carter and Mondale, Bush 41 over Dukakis and Clinton, Dole over Clinton, and Bush 43 over Gore and Kerry. You would be safe in coming to the conclusion … that when it comes to deciding whom to vote for … Catholic bishops encouraged their flock to side with the Republican Party. Unlike some evangelicals, however, the Catholic bishops did manage to…

I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’

By Chrissy Stroop

…t might be controversial, but hey, I thrive on that, so… “elmo shrug.” The bulk of the book is history, and I’m not making my story the center of this story. Why did you choose the subtitle The Politics of Morality in America? The subtitle is about the thesis of the book: simply put, morality isn’t a religious issue for evangelicals, but a political tool they hide behind that allows them to obscure the racist and sexist pronouncements and laws the…

The Man Who Hoarded 17,000 Bottles of Sanitizer Did Nothing Wrong ― And That’s the Problem

By Daniel Schultz

…traditional middlemen do: he traveled around, negotiated prices, bought in bulk, and made arrangements to distribute his product to customers willing to pay a premium. If you don’t approve of this strategy, you should perhaps put down your morning cup of coffee, because it’s exactly the traditional and very legal process that put the beans in your mug. (Fair trade coffee doesn’t do much to help, either.) As for the logic of capitalism, follow the…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…econstructionist tendencies.) But the precise makeup of the Senate for the bulk of Moore’s term is still undetermined—and regardless, Democrats face a Sisyphean battle when it comes to turning the Senate blue in 2018. Like many of the bills introduced by Sens. Cruz, Paul, and Lee, legislation authored or sponsored by Moore is likely to lean symbolic—intended to stage a debate and advance a conversation. Clarkson has previously written that Moore k…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…d gently push us forward for the rest of the ordinary mundane which is the bulk of our lives in the first place. There is sweetness in this repose. For those who fulfill these ritual duties in Islam without the experience of this sweetness Islam becomes but a harsh and ugly set of necessary requirements. It is this sweetness I crave each Ramadan and that I still pray I can experience at least a few fleeting moments of while on the hajj. Oh Allah l…

Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…lishers to determine what goes into their textbooks. As the second-largest bulk purchaser of textbooks in the country, Texas determines what students learn not only in Texas, but in many other states, where districts purchase the same versions. The board members have appointed six experts, and, the choices appear carefully crafted to be fair and balanced to differing views: one side representing a commitment to sound education, and the other side…

Sin and the Cycle of Poverty

By Guest Contributor

…o the 1st, 2nd, 4th, or even 10th generations. To me, the choices that the bulk of American citizens have made over the years—to prioritize economic development above human capital development, to ignore a broken education system, and to put poverty on the back burner—are sinful. And they have collateral effects through generations, mostly visited on the innocent children born in families trapped in the cycle of poverty. In many cases, the consequ…

Do Psychedelics Offer a Path To The “God Within”?

By Hollis Phelps

…chologist William A. Richards wants to change that. Richards has spent the bulk of his career researching such substances—which, in line with an established literature, he prefers to call “entheogens”—and their therapeutic uses. Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experience is not only a summation of his work—one that effortlessly mixes the results of scientific research, case studies, anecdotes, and interpretative commentary—but an apol…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…ed that the Ruddy-sponsored Gerard Foundation had given her $100,000, the “bulk” of which “will go toward a new media project ProLifeBlogs’ Tim Ruchti and I have been working on for months.” Bob Jones U. Apologizes for Past Racism: In one of those better-late-than-never moments that came one week before Thanksgiving, Bob Jones University of Greenville, South Carolina, issued a belated, but seemingly heartfelt, online statement apologizing for “all…

Supreme Court OKs State Funding Scheme for Religious Schools and Bars Challenges

By Peter Laarman

…wishes to “subsidize the ownership of crucifixes…It could purchase them in bulk and distribute them; it could reimburse buyers with a check; or it could pay with a tax credit. Now, really—do taxpayers have less reason to complain if the state selects the last of these three options?” As is so often the case with the Roberts Court majority, they took a case that until now has been largely under the radar, decided it in a radical way that departs fr…