Religion Dispatches
…ke LGBT advocate Sister Jeannine Gramick. (For the record, a 2009 NCAN sign-on letter in support of a priest who was threatened with excommunication for supporting women’s ordination received the signature of well over 100 well known women religious social justice leaders, including Gramick, and Sisters Donna Quinn, Joan Chittister, Mary Ann Cunningham, Maureen Fiedler, Ivone Gebara, and Theresa Kane.) What bothers Carey besides the fact that thes…
Read More…the agenda of the conference. It came up, as Andrew Revkin blogged in the New York Times, “99 minutes into the conference.” Werner Arber, the head of the Academy of Sciences and a Nobel laureate in medicine was asked by a Hong Kong attendee Hsin-chi Kuan if he believed in birth control. Arber replied that he did. Many delegates believe in birth control, or family planning—the less politically charged expression. Jeffery Sachs from Colombia Univer…
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…osition and differentiation made it all germane, for whom among us doesn’t feel the two-way pull? Daddies and daughters, for starters. Daniel and Joseph’s quests to find their daughters led to very different resolutions. While Joseph willingly sacrificed health, reason, and reality to find Tamara, Daniel taunted and tortured the Zoebot in the hopes of finding his daughter within. Angered and frustrated by her unwillingness to respond, he orders Ph…
Read More…nnounced that hiring discrimination questions would be addressed on a “case-by-case” basis, and would await guidance from his Advisory Council on the other issues. “We objected to the decision to take government-funded religious hiring out of the discussions of the Council altogether,” said Michael Lieberman, Washington Counsel of the Anti-Defamation League, a CARD member, “and we deeply lament the total lack of progress toward meeting the Preside…
Read More…are ideas. You can’t watch Superman without seeing Jesus Christ behind the comic book. (He sends His only son; he arrives from on high; his parents aren’t really his parents; he’s all-powerful; he’s a force for good; for God’s sake [sic] he’s 33.) How will the Muhammadan example, however, emerge in contemporary and future Muslim arts and culture? Where do we draw the line between influence and allusion and representation and depiction? What does i…
Read More…an perception that homosexuality is an import of the West which ‘recruits’ new members primarily by bribing children.” What’s more, Jeff Sharlet, guest-posting on Warren Throckmorton’s blog, writes that both Oyet and David Bahati, the parliamentarian who authored the bill, told him that they met with Engle and he told them he supported the bill: 1. Both Oyet and Bahati were ecstatic at what they perceived as Engle’s strong support of the bill. The…
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…aware of the ways this unequally burdens churches of color.) Some deep soul-searching is long overdue, and the work of exorcising white supremacy when it’s so ensconced in our tradition will be painful—if, as Daniel Schultz questions in a recent RD essay, it’s even possible. The silence about racial injustice in many progressive white churches and the failure to live up to the commitment to equality and justice of political progressivism offer hid…
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…e of St. Louis, facing its own charges concerning the alleged abuse of a 19-year-old woman. SNAP has fought the requests, citing Missouri laws protecting the privacy of rape survivors, and describing the records-request as a coordinated Church effort to bully sex abuse victims into silence and harass a longtime opponent into bankruptcy. While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for the Chur…
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…ATO at an afternoon panel titled “Future of Europe.” Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd and calling himself a “Brexiteer,” Orr claims that the European Union has left behind what he refers to as Charles de Gaulle’s “family of fatherlands” (the correct quote would’ve been “Europe of fatherlands”) in favor of a system that, he claims, disrespects national sovereignty. He defended a law passed by Hungary’s parliament which, in Orr’s view, “banned…
Read More…oters think he’s a Christian or not. The nation has been dancing this hokey-pokey for quite some time. Back in August, Glenn Beck attacked Obama’s faith as heresy, a fine charge coming from a Mormon convert. That led the president to respond that a “network of misinformation” was distorting his actual faith. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was more blunt: “I can only imagine where Mr. Beck conjured that from,” he said at the time. Obama’s…
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