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Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America

By Marian Ronan

…of a Catholic school system primarily served the emerging Catholic middle class. Furthermore, in order to secure near-free labor for his schools, the archbishop forced the Sisters of Charity to shift the majority of their members into staffing them instead of engaging in more direct service to the poor, their historic mission. But why bring this up now? Isn’t it mean-spirited to bring up details about things that happened long ago? Not exactly. N…

Not Cause, But Effect: Jared Loughner and Tea Party Rhetoric

By Finbarr Curtis

…stion the president’s birth certificate. If Loughner’s radical vision of individual autonomy is deranged and psychotic, it is a kind of derangement and psychosis that increasingly characterizes our political climate. One practical feature of this suspicion of shared social life is that individual autonomy is protected by guns. While martial metaphors are employed for a variety of purposes across the political spectrum, what is distinct about Tea P…

Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Finally Settles Suit

By Lauri Lebo

…intelligent design and displaying numerous Christian materials around the classroom for more than a decade. The district settled with the family in July 2009, but the settlement with Freshwater had dragged on, due to Freshwater and his attorney’s obfuscation and refusal to produce evidence. I’ve written about this case numerous times, most recently, here, here, and here. This case has been incredibly divisive to the Mt. Vernon community. Freshwat…

Wisconsin Religious Voices Witness Against Scott Walker

By Daniel Schultz

…he haves and have-nots of society by taking resources away from the middle class and the poor and giving them to the wealthiest among us.” He continues: “This is a serious moral problem for religious people, because our sacred scriptures teach that the government has a responsibility to do the opposite – to prevent this gap from becoming too wide. We have therefore asked for a meeting with the Governor to discuss these moral concerns with him.” Me…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…, but then it might also be a bit like taking a fitness class, or going skydiving. These may be relationships of convenience and only for the moments. I’m sure what we will be experiencing will be phenomenal enough to share. Choosing a Tour Company I’ve already said this, but I repeat: there has to be a better way to choose. Later I will comment on how the logistics on the ground are managed as a way to suggest how someone coming after me might na…

Do Boys in Tutus Break God’s ‘Chain of Command’?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…society that we never notice them anymore — until a little boy walks into class in a dress. Despite their status as victims, however, what these women did to this mother is nothing short of bullying. Their reactions — even though they may come masked as “concern” — really spring from an unconscious place of deeply internalized misogyny. More importantly, these mothers are models for their children — and in attacking this mother for “allowing” her…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…as a compromise, a letter to the Washingtonians… To the moderate political classes, religious leaders, and activists who are tempted after the Republican gains in the 2010 midterms to call for more compromise, civility, and government sensitivity to the plight of “the least of these”: Late in the year 2000, I stayed up late into the night watching election returns. The hope for a Gore presidency went down hard, like sparks struck from a flint. At…

Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

…tes a strict free market approach to an economy they portray in terms of individual choices and agreements rather than systemic forces. With respect to the Federal Reserve System in particular, they have argued against its fractional reserve banking, and its manipulation of interest rates to control economic ups and downs. The Austrian School and Christian Reconstructionism North, the architect of Christian Reconstructionist economic theory, and c…

Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ld have been informing its constituents about the true nature of these candidates. Sure, they may give gay people a tax cut, but they’ll work to ensure that they remain second-class citizens in every other aspect of life. That should give any gay person who voted Republican in the past election pause….

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…Family. “Ugandans are not concerned about the finer points of the American class system,” according to Sharlet. “They look at fanatics such as Lively, or a politician such as Inhofe, and they see the same thing: a smiling white man come to preach moral ‘purity’ as a path out of poverty.” Establishing the right connections to American politicians and religious leaders is a lucrative business in Uganda. There have been an influx of faith-based NGOs…