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Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…phenomena. These same apparitions were revisited in Dr. Daniel Galassini’s new book Mary: Fourth Person in the Trinity?. Galassini’s book centers on whether the Mother of God should be called the “co-redeemer” or “co-redemptrix,” the dogma Mary herself proposed, according to those who reported the Amsterdam apparitions. Galassini warns readers that these, along with some of the most popular apparitions, are falsely identifying themselves as Mary a…

Creationists Portray New Science Standards As “Big Government”

By Michael Schulson

…and a staff member at the Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think-tank. (I recently reviewed a book by Luskin’s boss. In what might seem like a conflict of interest, Luskin did, too.) Writing under the title “Darwinian Dictates,” Luskin explains: Public education curricula in the United States have traditionally been controlled by local and state boards of education, but under newly crafted national guidelines called the Next Generation…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…h Americans who had not been raised with Puritan church backgrounds. These newcomers to Thanksgiving embraced the dinner, the family reunion, and associated amusements, but not so much the extra worship services. Catholic leaders, very aware that Puritans had opposed all things Catholic, initially resisted any kind of observance of the Puritan holy day, although they eventually relented. By the late 1800s even Protestant worship services saw decli…

Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

By Hamdan Azhar

…’s imperative.” Hence reactionary discourses surrounding “open government,” “big data,” and unprecedented levels of bipartisan “public-private partnership” in which the individual as individual is finally stripped of agency and any idea of personal faith is rejected on the pseudo-scientific grounds of “self-quantification” and “Bayesian morality.” This is the proper contextual lens in which to read the enablers of neoconservatism and the apologist…

The Sacramental American Day of Thanks

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he American civil religion to make its own plea for prophetic national self-renewal. Some of the most intriguing implications of the Bellah thesis were reserved for footnotes. The essay began with a quotation from President Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, one in which the President invoked the name of “God,” but did not specify which God he had in mind. This lack of specificity was crucial for Bellah; the political invocation of “God” in presidential…

Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

By Konstantin Petrenko

…larus, and Moldova in the years ahead. Kirill’s predecessor, Alexy II (1990-2008), had presided over the greatest revival of Orthodox Christianity in Russia since the 10th century. In a matter of two decades, the Church was transformed from an oppressed minority on the brink of collapse to one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Today, roughly seventy percent of Russians claim an affiliation with Orthodoxy, and the Church operates hundred…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…ment was becoming increasingly important among a buffet of tactics. Staffer-as-victim was taking its place alongside claims that abortion is being used to perpetrate “black genocide” (as one attendee hastened to tell me), female infanticide, or to cover up statutory rape—all arguments that have gained steam in recent years. The surface voyeurism that these stories provide is one obvious reason for their attraction, offering a peek behind the curta…

‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…olumbia University’s response to antisemitism on campus, Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) questions Columbia President Minouche Shafik about her knowledge of the Bible. In a clip of the hearing below, Allen interrogates whether Shafik deems God’s ability to curse Columbia University a “serious issue.” Then, citing a version of Genesis 12:3, he proclaims: “it’s pretty clear it was the covenant that God made with Abraham, and that covenant was real clear: if…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…ere.” The cognitive dissonance required to listen to an album in which play-by-plays of the Transfiguration of Jesus and the Binding of Isaac are thoroughly detailed and not declare it either pedantic or preachy is a deep dissonance indeed. Sufjan Stevens plays like, seven hundred instruments. He composes for ballets. The dude likes his details. Why couldn’t critics just let Sufjan Stevens bear prophetic witness? Perhaps it’s that the aftertaste o…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…t in most cases, women sought to terminate unwanted pregnancies by the tens-of-thousands. Some sought out illegal providers. Others self-aborted. The danger of both was evident in the existence of septic wards devoted to treating botched abortions. One of these was at Cook County’s Public hospital on Chicago’s West Side. It was a 40-bed ward, often filled to capacity, devoted to women injured from illegal abortions. One doctor who did his rotation…