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Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…o bad that the statement was lost in that same day’s announcement that the Oregon province of Jesuits had just agreed to pay out 166 million to Native Americans and Alaska Natives abused at boarding schools and fishing villages, and to write a letter of apology to those abused. Perhaps that news also played a role in reiterating the Charter’s statement. Protesting for Lent Last year, I was disgusted with the church. This year, I remain disgusted,…

Progressive & Religious

By Robert P. Jones

…beralism’s Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-assisted Suicide Debates, among both activists and religious leaders. As it stands, I’m thinking my next book will be more quantitative, drawing on survey data between 2000 and 2008. The book will focus on the sea change in the public face of religion during the first decade of the twenty-first century, looking at 2004-2005 as the high water mark of the dom…

How Sikhs Handle Hate

By Rajdeep Singh and Simran Jeet Singh

…lities, the rulers of the day focused on persecuting Sikhs such that their numbers dwindled into the low thousands. The regime literally put prices on the heads of Sikhs, offering to pay citizens who helped wipe out the whole community. In fact, Sikhs remember two particular periods in the 18th century as “The Lesser Holocaust” and “The Greater Holocaust.” According to Sikh historians, the state issued an official declaration in 1739 that the enti…

Guns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us

By Anthea Butler

…Connecticut. Between those deaths, another shooter killed two people at an Oregon shopping mall. There are no words for the horror parents must have felt yesterday, especially parents in Newtown. To bury a child is the worst fate imaginable. To bury anyone you love is an awful, soul-gutting task. When that death comes at the point of a gun, the last thing grieving parents and the loved ones of the deceased need to hear are clergy members and relig…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…titudes of so many of his fellow American Christians. Borg, a professor at Oregon State until his retirement in 2007, has written twenty books, mainly aimed at debunking fundamentalist ideas about Jesus and God. His newest book Evolution of the Word, is a chronological reading of the New Testament. When read in historical order, Borg argues, the Bible reveals itself as having been shaped by the community that engendered it, rather than the other w…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…network of associates, Rachelle (“Shelly”) Shannon, a housewife from rural Oregon, had also attacked Dr. George Tiller as he drove away from his clinic in Wichita. She was arrested for attempted murder. When I interviewed Bray on several occasions in the 1990s, he provided a theological defense of this kind of violence from two different Christian perspectives. In the remainder of this essay, I’ll summarize from Terror in the Mind of God some of m…

Sacred Real Estate: What Makes Washington’s WWII Memorial So Dreadful?

By Michael A. Elliott

…s, and the exotic surprises that Australia and the Philippines held for an Oregon farmboy. Of course, there was a good deal more to his war, but he didn’t care to talk about that. He was a proud veteran who would be buried in a Veteran’s Cemetery not far from the towns where he lived most of his life, but he was also a profoundly modest man. If he thought he belonged to the “greatest generation,” he never showed it. So it was hard to find much of…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…a lawmakers sat through pleas to keep aid in dying legal in their state, a number of local television stations had their regular programming hacked. A ticker scrolled across the top of KRTV’s broadcast of The Steve Wilkos Show in all caps, like an emergency weather alert. A dark and distorted voice announced: Authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. Do not attempt to…

Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

By Frances Kissling

…for example, both see a link between the ability of women to decide on the number of children they want and the ability to ensure planetary survival. Recent studies have shown that providing contraception to the 220 million women who want it but don’t have access would reduce carbon emissions by 15%. No coercion, just meeting the unmet need. This, of course needs to be balanced by less consumption in the developed world. Statisticians at Oregon St…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…