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Faith in Public Life Responds: Common Ground Gets Results

By Katie Paris and the Faith in Public Life Team

…Joel Hunter, David Gushee, and Jim Wallis, in favor of abortion reduction policies that include not only support for pregnant women, mothers, and children, but also medically-accurate sex education and improved access to contraception. The report also advocates for the recognition of the rights and inherent dignity of LGBT persons. Our collaboration with Third Way is ongoing and will further expand our involvement in these issues. Posner dismisse…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…horrific consequences can be for individual women when reproductive rights policies don’t take the reality of their lives and needs into account. The stories lend a sense of humanity to the issues themselves that tends to be lost in the debate. Was there a story that you wanted to include, but didn’t? I’d have loved to tell the story of Manju Rani, this really inspiring, unstoppable women’s health advocate in Haryana in Northern India. She went th…

Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…he Nixon administration demanded information from schools about their race policies for hiring and admissions, using the IRS to force desegregation. Bob Jones University, originally founded to oppose evolution in 1927, remained determinedly segregationist, lost its nonprofit tax status in 1976, and had to pay a million dollars in back taxes. As Falwell himself faced IRS pressures, he furiously whined, “In some states…it’s easier to open a massage…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ged an aggressive media campaign in support of the Reagan administration’s policies in Nicaragua, El Salvador and elsewhere, alleging links between liberal church leaders and Marxist guerillas. After the Cold War, Naughton continues: The IRD turned its attention from the mainline churches’ activities in Central America to the churches’ internal affairs. In its Reforming America ‘s Churches Project, 2001-2004, the IRD invited donors to help it in “…

Here’s What to Read on Syria and Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…aine. The region is a confusing mess of movements, loyalties, agendas, and policies; our own muddled approach is no different—either we reflect what we find, or we produce what we bring to the table, or we’re stuck on a hamster wheel. But the London Review of Books recently published two pieces that are exceptional. The first is Hugh Roberts’ essay on Egypt, The Revolution That Wasn’t, which I’m now reading a second time. Meanwhile, on their blog,…

Population Growth Divides Climate Change Advocates

By Brentin Mock

…pulation, stating, “We should promote a respect for nature that encourages policies fostering natural family planning and the education of women and men rather than coercive measures of population control or government incentives for birth control that violate local cultural and religious norms.” As for rapid population growth, though, the Catholic Church is remaining what it calls “pro-life.” Misleh of the CCCC says, “Our faith says that all li…

Innocuous SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door For Discriminatory Religious Institutions to Access Public Funds

By Sunnivie Brydum

…rograms or requirements (most often from LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policies), in Trinity Lutheran, the roles are reversed. It’s the church seeking access to a publicly funded grant, while the state counters that it cannot provide funds to religious groups, lest it appear to be offering preferential treatment to one religious sect over another. As SCOTUSblog explains, the central legal question in the case is “whether the exclusion of churc…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…ation of Jewish and Evangelical Christian supporters of Israeli government policies is not a new experience for him. This set of experiences was reflected in the tone of Bishop Tutu’s letter. Referring to his support for the divestment motion he wrote that: I have reached this conclusion slowly and painfully. I am aware that many of our Jewish brothers and sisters who were so instrumental in the fight against South African apartheid are not yet re…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…ften toward him. Maybe it’s the contrast with our current president, whose policies wake me in the middle of the night, in a sweat, afraid of nuclear war and white nationalists. Or maybe it’s because I’m generally fond of artists; painters, sculptors, ceramicists, animators—these are my people. Bush’s stories give me the feeling that he’s a good guy. He knows the soldiers he paints. He visits them in the hospital, knows their kids, invites them to…

“Do Not Rejoice When Your Enemies Fall”

By Sarah Posner

…pportunity for national reflection on how our broader military and foreign policies—including the placement of our troops throughout the largely Muslim Arab world, our posture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and our regular military interventions around the world, create a steady supply of new enemies. There can never be any moral justification for terrorist attacks on innocent people, such as the terrible deeds of 9/11. But we must recognize…