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Auditor Calls ‘Gay Parenting’ Study ‘Bullshit’

By Peter Montgomery

…earch editor Wright, the University of Texas has launched its own investigation into the integrity of the study. But politically, the integrity of the study may be beside the point. The Witherspoon Foundation and Bradley Foundation apparently wanted a weapon they could use to fight marriage equality and they got it. It’s a safe bet that the Regnerus study will be cited by religious right groups for years to come, the way they have over the past de…

Ross Douthat’s Missing Pregnant Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ng and number of pregnancies they have, many of them opt to do so; not because they are mindlessly driven to do so by the sociological version of Van Der Waals forces, but because undergoing pregnancy and giving birth to babies involves trade-offs specific to women. There are health risks that come with pregnancy, up to and including death. Less dramatically, there are things you can’t do if you have three children under five and are pregnant with…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…er says mildly, “something very disturbing about the state of intellectual freedom at Catholic universities. Where, if not in Catholic universities, can controversial issues be discussed?” One must pose this question to leaders of our many Catholic colleges aud universities: Regis College and St. Michael’s University in Toronto, for example. Obedience, even servility, to ecclesial power reigns. Critical Catholic thinkers who diverge from the views…

The Death of a Secularist

By Austin Dacey

…onse. In this, only the secular way of death fully honors the dead, where “better place” platitudes betray him. Thomas’ paradoxically titled “Refusal to Mourn” is in fact the refusal to mitigate grief, to paper over the universe’s forever-loss of singular person in guaze-promises of eternity: “I shall not murder/The mankind of her going with a grave truth.” Yes, dying may be harder for the atheist. But what I cannot understand, and reject totall…

The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…hunting grounds” called Dilmun is a nice place, sure, but also noted to be useful as a convenient location for trading. In their flood story which precedes Noah’s Ark, the gods (note the plural) decide to flood the world because the humans are making too much noise and keeping them awake at night. This idea of perfection and paradise that we associate with Eden really came along later, as the story evolved into the biblical canon. Okay. Back to Ir…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…o acknowledged two valid perspectives on religious experience: one that focuses on religious institutions, their policies, their projects, and the “official” story, and another that focuses on the way religion is lived everyday in “unofficial” yet very real ways by common people of faith. Mattingly clearly cares about promoting precise descriptions of orthodox institutional religious doctrines and policies. But that doesn’t mean that he “gets reli…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…hcraft. The loathsome Glenn Grothman, who is about the most simpatico US House member Trump has, used to represent the area in the Wisconsin State Senate before he moved north to push a moderate Republican out of the 6th Congressional district. Trump’s people got what they wanted in West Bend: no interruptions and polite applause. The whole thing was weird. Beyond his evident confusion about where exactly he was speaking, Trump was on the Teleprom…

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…t Orsi) or Rebecca’s Revival (by Jon Sensbach). Orsi’s book is classic because it focused on everyday religious experiences of Italian immigrants, a cluster of activities that many outsider observers considered to be “bad religion.” Orsi did, and still does, find ways to battle that idea. Sensbach uses the story of a formerly enslaved Moravian to give readers a new understanding of how Protestantism came to North America. It’s beautiful. It’s a re…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…ice Catholics, is adding a $500,000, 3,000-square foot wing to his $800,000, 4,500-square foot weekend/retirement home nestled on 8.2 wooded aces in New Jersey’s tony Hunterdon Country. He needed the extra space for “an indoor exercise pool”—the house already has a large outdoor pool—“a hot tub, three fireplaces and a library.” Maybe he could have Boston Cardinal and Francis ally Sean O’Malley over for the weekend. The Franciscan lives in a “rundo…

New Poll Shows Gays and Lesbians Believe in God

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y and lesbian Christians are not, and with good reason. The Bible has been used as a weapon against gays and lesbians for so long, our relationship with the book is definitely a bit schizophrenic. We have been long taught that condemnation of homosexuality is enshrined in at least seven passages with the pages of the Bible. We have been taught that homosexuality is a sin and that it is one of the worst sins and will surely be our ticket to eternal…