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Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It

By Rebecca Todd Peters

…ntroduced in state houses across the country. While this is about the same number as last year, what’s new is that 40% of these bills are attempts to ban abortion. The goal is for one of these bills to make its way up to a Supreme Court, which is now theoretically conservative enough to overturn Roe v. Wade. The extent to which this campaign is about criminalizing abortion became blisteringly clear when Sen. Clyde Chambliss responded to a question…

‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?

By Chrissy Stroop

…any zero-sum sort of relationship. After all, misogyny and racism are the twin pillars of white supremacist patriarchy on which anti-LGBTQ animus—a powerful force in its own right—rests. As Jacqui Lewis recently wrote here on RD regarding the close connection between LGBTQ rights and reproductive healthcare (as well as other social justice issues): “we don’t need to choose and prioritize whose freedoms matter most.” Reproductive justice, which co…

Are the Pews Half Empty or Half Full? Lessons From 734 A.D.

By Carlos Wilton

…behind them. Navigating what they perceived as perilous waters between the twin reefs of fascism and communism, G.I.-generation parents looked to the church for moral instruction for their children. Sunday Schools boomed along with their babies, but when those children came of age, it was straight into Woodstock, Vietnam War protests and “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s, worship attendance quietly peaked. The pendulu…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…of spiritual exploration for many Americans. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is one-of-a-kind. It permeates your physical self. It seems to dictate your life in potent ways. It cannot be forged. And it situates you in the past. The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome Alondra Nelson Beacon Press January 12, 2016 When it comes to the search for roots, personal genetic testing is especially helpful…

Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

By Elijah Siegler

…mermaids (ScarJo plays one, Channing Tatum sings about them) and battling twin gossip columnists, whose names, Thora and Thessaly, perhaps suggest Norse and Greek mythologies (I noticed only because Mannix asked each of the pair about the meaning of their names). More importantly, as Mannix goes from film set to film set, from one amazing set piece to the next, he encounters various hybrid Hollywood genres including a musical water ballet, a sing…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…ublic conversation about poverty. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.” Reagan’s caricature of the “welfare queen” cemented it in the American imaginary: By the time the “welfare queen” finally emerged on the national stage, the American pu…

Our Last “Genius” Stephen Hawking is Gone… Cause for Worry Or Inspiration?

By Ed Simon

…riate because Einstein and Hawking are fused in the popular imagination as twin titans of brilliance, for not dissimilar reasons. They are veritable brands as well as thinkers—Einstein’s mad explosion of hair and his rumpled clothes projecting the demeanor of a mind so consumed with contemplation that he has no time for mere appearance; Hawking even more dramatically the quadriplegic victim of ALS, the poetic image of a brain able to pass the even…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…we ought to ignore 1607 and instead pay attention to the divided nation’s twin founding moments.” The other partner in this twinned pair of national origins was the sale of twenty Africans by Dutch slave traders to the English colonists at Jamestown a year before the Pilgrims would land at Plymouth. For the New England abolitionists, the pilgrims were to be contrasted with their southern countrymen in what constituted a sort of Paradise Lost of A…

The Ordinary Jesus: An Excerpt from Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

By James Carroll

…rs that simply did not exist before. Auschwitz and Hiroshima amount to the twin interruptions of history that have made this inquiry not only necessary but urgent. Auschwitz and Hiroshima, which warned not just of a capacity but of an inclination, lay bare the new actuality that confronts men and women: the dread prospect that the human species—which is the very cosmos aware of itself—will bring about its own extinction. Even for those of us who s…

With the Pope at Ground Zero

By Anthea Butler

…e 9/11 Memorial Plaza to meet with ten families who lost loved ones at the twin towers and to participate in an interfaith service with over 600 religious leaders from the New York area. We have come a long way from 2001, but the hurt and pain remained in the faces of many present, including Tim Rogér of Rochester NY, who lost his daughter Jean, a flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11. Mr. Roger said he hoped the pope would say pra…