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Darrell Issa’s Show Trial
on Alleged Obama Administration “Anti-Catholic Bias”

By Sarah Posner

…the Catholic Bishops. He was assisted by Rep. Chris Smith, an anti-choice crusader who doesn’t serve on the committee, but liberally speechified as he questioned the HHS witnesses. Smith charged the Obama administration with “promoting abortion” through the contracting process and of engaging in “unethical” violations of religious conscience laws, although his proffer fell short of establishing any sort of legal infraction. “The Obama Administrat…

SoHo Properties CEO: Media Reports of Park51 Move a “Falsehood”

By Hussein Rashid

…the promoters of the Park51 project had agreed to move it to a different location, Sharif El-Gamal, Chairman and CEO of SoHo Properties, which owns the site, today issued this statement to RD: It is untrue that the community center known as Park51 in lower Manhattan is being moved. The project will proceed as planned. What is being reported in the media today is a falsehood. …

The High Church of Art

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…which the Second Vatican Council made sense. Sweeney was profligate in his reading, and daring in the range of spiritual traditions he established as part of his curatorial vision (6, 23). Heraclitus, Neoplatonic mysticism, medieval mystics like Julian of Norwich and Nicolas of Cusa, Emerson and Whitman, William James, Mircea Eliade, Gershom Sholem, Henry Corbin, scholars of Taoism like Arthur Waley, T.S. Eliot, St. John of the Cross… all were par…

And What of the Non-Jewish Jews?

By Shaul Magid

…entify in some way as “Jewish” while not being Jewish is fascinating. In a world where very recently being “Jewish” was a liability and anti-semitism was palpable, the number of non-Jews today who identify as Jewish seems historically distinctive. We could, perhaps, point to the so-called “fearers of heaven,” an undocumented community of Hellenes in late antiquity who lived in large Jewish population centers, apparently lived partially as Jews, an…

Departure of the Queen

By Amina Wadud

…have memorized myself, and this is more a review than a simple reflective read. Coming to the end of the Qur’an reading is also melancholy, and I forget why I felt I should rush just a few days ago. How will I put my friend down, except for the many occasions I use it in my work, after this? Oh, I know. In my next entry I will tell you the story of meeting this blessed book and how it transformed my life. Although nearly 40 years ago, it still ta…

Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…that Trump picked Pence to solidify his bona fides with evangelicals. And Trump really only cares about a handful of issues: infrastructure spending, trade, manufacturing, immigration, and foreign policy. He is happy to outsource much of the agenda around social policy, which includes all the culture war issues like abortion, LGBT rights and “religious liberty,” to Pence and his allies. Pence has deep roots as a culture warrior. When President Geo…

Will ‘Pandemic Time’ Save Us From the Inhuman and Destructive Demands of ‘Fossil-Fuel Time’?

By Whitney Bauman

…the fossil-fueled time that takes humans “out of this world,” and re-ground them in these ambiguous, multiple, planetary times, we can begin to think about and co-construct post-pandemic worlds that are more about the flourishing and resilience of the entire planetary community….

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…ican religious discourse —that is the root of the right’s manufactured distrust of Obama as un-American, not-Christian, possibly Muslim, possibly a secret Muslim Brotherhood agent. It’s that kind of religion that produces the self-satisfaction that there is a truth that is more believable than some piece of paper from a government agency. And that “truth” is not just the Bible, but the supposed “truth” that God ordained America as a Christian nati…

The Santorum Legacy: The Fertility Wars

By Sarah Posner

…oliticians with national aspirations dare to use. “We were winning in a very different way, we were winning hearts, we were raising issues that other people didn’t want to raise,” Santorum said today. Many of his fellow Republicans probably didn’t want him to raise them, and now they’re stuck with them, even with Santorum gone….

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…uding people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and the world. Below are excerpts from a conversation with the young, intelligent, and energetic pastor Jason Crosby. What was the process like that led Crescent Hill to adopt an unequivocal co…