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Pope’s Comments on “Ideological Colonization” of Gender Signal Rupture With Scientific Community

By Michael Schulson

…s are powerful. The researchers interviewed 250 transgender individuals in Mexico City. They found that their distress was overwhelmingly correlated with violence and social rejection, but not with anything intrinsic to being transgender. Ergo, they conclude, it’s not a great idea to classify transgender identity as a disorder. A medical diagnosis can provide social legitimacy to people’s experiences, and it can provide access to legal and insuran…

What the National Council of Churches Should Say About Financial Reform

By Daniel Schultz

…o send their kids to college, those kids can’t afford to move out of the house, and they have been screwed by corporate greedheads on Wall Street again and again. So if you’re going to start a campaign to end poverty, please, pretty please, use a hook that people can get hold of. And for God’s sake, don’t start with education programs for churches and arguing minute policy details with Congress. Hit ’em with something motivational, like the truth:…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…ree to ignore the basic facts of economics. Indeed. Or the Bible. Richards uses the old false dichotomy technique to make his case that free-market capitalism is fully consistent with Jesus’ teachings and Christian tradition. He wants to save us from believing either that private accumulation is “bad” and causes much of the world’s suffering, or that “God wants you to prosper and be rich”—as though the prosperity gospel is in any way the counterpa…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…. In one case, a canon lawyer who attended board meetings claimed that because an alleged act of abuse was committed against a 17-year-old in 1995, the allegation should be thrown out. At the time of the alleged abuse, the canonist argued, canon law held that the age of majority was sixteen. But review boards were not established to serve a canon-law function. Their role is simply to determine whether there is good reason to believe an alleged act…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…t best: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” And while I’m on the topic of the “Freedom” agenda as an anti-black agenda, there’s new information available that utterly refutes the standard white conservative contention that welfare programs sap poor people’s morale and promote bad behavior. Not that this will stop them from spouting their big racist lie. Or stop the corporate media from repeating it endlessly. Or, apparently, rouse religi…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…was a testament to the best of human efforts to join together in common cause. 10. RD celebrates its Two-Year Anniversary (February 4th). Sorry. This may have been sacred to only a few… Can you blame me? *** Finally, just so I can’t be accused of slapping the label on any old thing, here is a list of items in the news that, for too many Americans, have nothing at all to do with the sacred—they are thoroughly mundane, lacking in urgency, ultimate…

Travolta Airlifts Scientology, Supplies, to Haiti

By Becky Garrison

…genuine relief they might provide appears to be offset by their efforts to promote their religious beliefs. For example, during my stint volunteering at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks, I witnessed the Scientologists’ volunteer ministers in action. Once some semblance of order was restored after a few weeks, they were one of the religious groups kicked off the site for proselytizing and passing out pamphlets under the guise of providing…

A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change

By Brent Hege

…e in these discussions? First, I put the term “confessional” in quotes because I consider its use in this context to be disingenuous; it implies that only those Lutherans who are opposed to the full inclusion of LGBTQ Lutherans are faithful to the historic confessions of the Lutheran Church (The Book of Concord). It also assumes that the supporters of full inclusion are apostates who willfully abandon scripture, tradition, and the confessions to a…

The Oil Spill and “Real Deathliness”

By Daniel Schultz

…e of greed, this narrative of economic growth, this whole house of cards is based on lies and deception. This whole culture of consumption, this whole empire of money is based on self-willed ignorance. Creation proclaims a better way because creation bears witness to a God of grace. But we have suppressed this truth, engaged in denial and cover-up. Refusing to live a life of gratitude, refusing t…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…sense of frustration with the Muslim community. “I signed that letter because it’s a step forward,” Aly said. “But the letter just focuses on Muslim issues, and at this point, we don’t need to have 400 people sign one letter. We need 400 letters—you know what I mean? We are not one voice, we are not a monolith.” Given the demographics of American Muslims, the most diverse faith community in the nation, it might seem natural for Muslim institution…