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Are Evangelicals Truly Separating Themselves from the GOP?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ound. Identification with the Democratic Party stayed relatively flat (from 16 percent to 19 percent). Strang said he went Independent so he can “vote because of values and convictions, not party affiliations. To me, that’s an important part of being a thinking, values-minded Christian.” While it appears that “values minded” evangelical Christians are flocking away from the GOP in strong numbers—have they really moderated their political thinking?…

Pro-Choice Groups Livid Over Passage of Stupak Amendment

By Sarah Posner

…nt, which has prohibited public funding of abortion in most instances since 1977.” A great deal of press coverage has focused on the advocacy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in forcing the Democrats’ hands. The bishops were not alone, though; they worked in tandem with the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition, a group of religious right advocacy and astroturf groups that managed to force the Democratic Party to do its bidding as if it we…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…V energy’ to try and make a run at the MLB playoffs. They recently hired a spiritual healer and scientist to bring the team positive energy that will improve performance on the field and fill the stands. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is trying to keep churches empty, however, through their Chicago bus advertisements encouraging the Windy City’s faithful to sleep in on Sunday mornings. She wasn’t driving a bus, but a dispute over a traffic t…

Praying Away the Gay: “This is What Love Feels Like?”

By Tanya Erzen

…of the material is gleaned from the diary Bobby left behind when he died in 1983. In the movie Mary explains, “We’re doing this because we love you,” to which an increasingly exasperated Bobby responds, “This is what love feels like?” Bobby might have posed his question to Focus on the Family and the ex-gay movement, who sponsor “Love Won Out” conferences with ex-gay speakers who proclaim that homosexuals can change. Instead of condemnation, “Love…

Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes

By Sarah Sentilles

…things spicy in the bedroom, flirts with a police officer to get out of a ticket, and tells Corinne to trust her body, that it will tell her what she needs. The film is unexpectedly funny, and much of the humor happens when the two women are together. It is rare to see a film that presents friendship between women as a powerful source of laughter, resistance, knowledge, and love. So many of the films I see in theaters are written by men for men a…

Joe the Plumber: Horatio Alger with Plumber’s Crack

By Jonathan L. Walton

…n the reality of a depreciating house, evaporating 401K, and dwindling American job market. Unfortunately, regardless of the characters and costumes that the McCain/Palin ticket parade this week, these are the real stories of our lives that we must eventually confront. Trick or Treat!!…

Saint Michael… Spied in a Stump, Haunting Larry King

By Anthea Butler

…and over again, dancing in the streets, and even buying expensive airline tickets to Los Angeles, hoping for a long shot lottery ticket that would let them into the inner sanctum of the Staples Center for the memorial service. I’d say that already makes for thousands of devotees—even the Rev. Sharpton, whose dance moves [image left, more here] at the Apollo in honor of St. Michael were more like a Bacchanal than a holy Ghost dance. All of this “w…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressive Catholic women left the Church by filing the requisite papers that relieved them of contributing church taxes. Four are…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…the twentieth century was the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in 1937. From this book and its sequel, The Lord of the Rings in 1954, an entire industry was created—not just fantasy novels, but fantasy films, video games, board games, role-playing games, and online multi-player games. And yet the ideas that make Tolkien popular—the ideas picked up by his imitators—are not all original. Many are the work of Snorri Sturluson. Without Snor…

Decoding Rick Warren’s Appreciation for Chick-fil-A

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nally. You cannot possibly ‘hate’ him,” she would insist. “Hate” was a big-ticket word not to be squandered on annoying siblings or corrupt politicians. My mother’s semantic ethics on this point have stayed with me throughout my life, so I’ve never been one to throw around words like “hate,” “hater,” or “hate speech” casually. Words are of course powerful things, filled with the potential for hurt and shame that can linger for years, poisoning sou…