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Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…f Religion News Service.” According to the reporting of both Jones and the Columbia Journalism Review’s Stephanie Russell-Kraft, some of the more egregious instances of Gallagher’s editorial meddling, which played a significant role in the firing of respected editor-in-chief Jerome Socolovsky and the subsequent resignations of veteran reporters Kimberly Winston and Lauren Markoe, focused on the institutional Catholic Church. Corroborated by emails…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…rd of God. Of course, we don’t really live in that theological universe anymore. For the most part, we are Jews who are fully children of the Enlightenment; we fight for justice and equality for everyone, and we don’t live in a world where we assume everyone hates us. Or do we? The tweetstorm in the wake of bedbug-gate and the new book by a public Jew on the ubiquity and ever-presence of anti-Semitism, tells us that while we may have shed our cloa…

What We Saw in the Eyes of Koko the Talking Gorilla (1971-2018)

By Ed Simon

…a “paradigm for human devotion to a god.” If the Ramayana depict apes and monkeys as models of reverence and piety, then other traditions and texts took the opportunity to use our simian cousins as representative of humanity’s baser actions. French medieval philosopher and poet Bernardus Silvestris wrote in the 12th century that the “ape becomes the image of man, but a deformed image representing man in a state of degeneracy.” Monkeys, of which t…

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…Benham, and then Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas, under whose leadership it began to mobilize for abolition. Storms was among the antiabortion leaders at the Capitol on January 6th. He called it a “revolution.” Occupy the last days Matt Shea hasn’t changed much since changing jobs. On Insurrection day, January 6, he urged people at a “Stop the Steal” rally in northern Idaho, to “fight back in every single sphere we possibly can,” and to prepare for “total w…

There are Nonproductive Ways of Listening to Each Other: Deborah Jian Lee on the New Era

By The Editors

…hat there are both productive and non-productive ways of doing this. A few months after the election, I was speaking at a mostly white Christian college in Virginia when a white man approached the mic and started berating me for suggesting that LGBTQ people and other minority groups could claim to be evangelical if they didn’t abide by his definition of “orthodoxy.” I tried engaging him, but quickly realized that he didn’t see my humanity. I remin…

LGBTQ Equality Pendulum “Abruptly” Swinging Back as Religious Exemptions Gain Victories

By Patrick Hornbeck

…Free Exercise Clause, “to at least explore the options and provide an accommodation unless granting the accommodation would cause an undue burden.” Devine ordered that the North Carolina courts provide Myrick with back pay, compensate her for her attorney’s fees, and determine whether a position exists to which she might be reinstated. As we recently learned, the parties ended up settling for nearly $225,000 in compensation and $115,000 in attorne…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…ng should be given to those directly harmed by oppressive speech acts. The most valid positions for expelling white supremacist speech have been well made, again and again, most particularly by communities of color, trans activists, and undocumented people who have attested to the immediate harm done to them when such voices are legitimized via a public platform. Those who have felt the brute force of this “introduction of oppressive permissibilit…

Pope Benedict’s 2006 Islamophobia Controversy Wasn’t an Isolated Incident — Islamophobia is an Integral Part of His Theological Legacy

By Wendy Mallette

…ra, Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam, which traces modern Europe’s democratic identity back to the Holy Roman Empire’s separation of religious and political authority. Benedict’s narrative credits Western Christianity with cherished contemporary values—democracy, religious freedom, and civilization—while downplaying Christianity’s imbrication with violent histories of empire and colonialism. Even more troubling, he sutures…

Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…o-life,” anti-vaxx, anti-mask crowd. The new anti-vaxxing lawsuit claims, among other things, that the District of Columbia’s law allowing children to be vaccinated without the knowledge of their parents or against the wishes of their parents, violates their parents’ religious freedom. The rule only applies to vaccines recommended by the CDC. Children can choose to get a safe, recommended vaccine. The right of the child to live, survive, and enjoy…

Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…Dead Jews. Books about antisemitism lurking here, there, and everywhere. Almost every month another title that quickly climbs the charts. Middlebrow books recounting the Greatest Hits of Jew hatred. With Google, it’s quite easy to do. But to what end? And here Horn’s book is sadly a well-written addition to the growing body of literature that seems to be driving Jewish identity. If there’s another take-away from Horn’s book, I must have missed it….