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Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…es, headlined the event from 2005 until 2008, including an appearance with Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput in 2004. The first post-Bush breakfast in 2009 featured the conservative Catholic dream team of Justice Antonin Scalia and Cardinal Raymond Burke. In 2012, when the Catholic bishops were enmeshed in a make-or-break effort to cripple the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act and link it to a larger “religious liberty” effort, Knigh…

Obama Territory

By Nathan Schneider

…m section—you’ll hear Rev. Clinton M. Miller’s voice, rising over his microphone’s threshold, calling out through the static to responses from the packed pews. Mixed in all that, these days, you’ll probably hear something about Barack Obama, or at least his echoes—”hope,” “politics as usual,” “change.” Keep walking, past the humbler Progressive Glorious Church of God in Christ, and there is a man on his stoop selling t-shirts with the big, colorfu…

All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America

By Mary Valle

…It got me thinking about the odd cultural bird that is Halloween—America’s number two holiday in terms of money spent—a holiday with deep “pagan” or “old religion” roots and the site of two Catholic feast days commemorating our dead friends and allies: All Souls’ Day on November 1, and All Saints’ Day on November 2. As a bonus, October 31 marks the kickoff of the Reformation, when Luther posted his theses on the door of the Castle Church of Witten…

How the Religious Left, or Whatever It’s Called, Failed at the Budget Big Game

By Sarah Posner

…acknowledging that cuts would hurt to an even split on the question. These numbers, and the widening confusion they reflect, will come back to haunt the Democrats if and when they next propose a jobs program to help the economy get moving again. The reason why Democrats are losing, as Meyerson and others have pointed out, is that they have relented to using the Republican Manual of Economic Destruction, which holds, essentially, that the national…

In Praise of (Some of) John L. Kane’s Reasoning

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hich are really spot-on, even at points inspiring. In a 2002 speech to the Denver Bar Association (opens as .doc), Kane called for far-reaching reform to the legal system: The legal system’s stubborn adherence to antiquated, unworkable rules of civil procedure, the imposition of mandatory sentences in criminal cases, the surrender of individual rights and responsibilities to administrative agency discretion, and the conquest of form over substance…

Focus on the Family’s Conversation Starter a Non-Starter

By Sarah Posner

Late last week the Denver Post reported that Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, wants to have a conversation with reproductive rights advocates: Reproductive-rights supporters say they want abortion to be legal, safe and rare, Daly said, and so his Colorado Springs-based media powerhouse will try to walk that common ground with them — lessening demand for abortion. The “let’s talk” offer to reproductive-rights groups signals a sea change…

Is Religion a Game?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…al depiction, see left). Carl Raschke, a professor of religious studies at Denver University, claims in USA Today that the new game is “too stupid to go far,” and that may be so. Yet, I think there is much worth investigating in the relation between religious worlds and games, both in their board and video versions. For those still baffled as to why religion works so well in a modern/postmodern world, games might offer some insight. Take some of t…

Which Hogwarts House would Jesus be in? Or would He be in a Walmart Receipt?

By Michael J. Altman

…sex abuse scandal. He has been replaced by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver. A Muslim man shot in the face by a man in an anti-Islamic rage says he forgives the shooter and tried to stop his execution. A federal judge has ruled that Dixie County Florida must remove its Ten Commandments monument from the courthouse steps. It has been there since 2006. Another judge ruled that a group of devout and vegetarian Hindus in New Jersey could sue a…

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

By Eric Reitan

…d. And in response to the controversy and the barrage of outraged parental phone calls, many school systems decided it was safest not to air the speech at all. Others required that alternative activities be arranged for children whose parents refused to permit their kids to be subjected to an encouraging presidential pep talk. The evening after the talk, the local news station I was watching aired a report on the event, complete with footage of a…

The C Word

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

As a Christian it has never truly occurred to me to think about where the “best” place might be for me to work, but a new survey on the “Best Christian Places to Work in the US and Canada” has me thinking. Certainly, as a person of faith who is concerned about the environment, I don’t think I’d pursue a job at a nuclear plant or at a company clear-cutting forests. But, overall, I consider just about any place of employment a great place to be whi…