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Catholic Healthcare Is Not the Enemy

By Frances Kissling

…stion and answer: “Are the majority of gynecological patients in the small city of Bartlesville, Okla., about to be cut off from access to prescription contraception? That seems to be the conclusion of the local newspaper, the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise…” To some extent, questions like this are designed to cover up the fact that the reporter does not know the answer to her own question and for some reason hasn’t bothered to find it. “The ord…

No Time for Casual Faith: The First Unitarian Woman Elected President on our Urgent Moment

By Peter Laarman

…living up to our calling unless we are vigilant in understanding our complicity in systems of oppression and discrimination—a complicity that even persists within our social justice work. This is an uncomfortable thought, but discomfort is also where spiritual growth can happen. Ours is not the only institution that inherits a culture of complicity and its related limitations. But we are addressing this directly and head on. This moment has been b…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…unch of journalist and novelist Hesse’s second novel, Carnality: Sebastian Phoenix and the Dark Star. One of these events took place at City Lit Books in Chicago on Friday, October 12. The well attended event, audio of which is also available as a special episode of the Exvangelical podcast, concluded with an interview with Josiah, conducted by Blake Chastain and yours truly. 2) Exvangelicals Make National News, Including Television Debut In 2018,…

There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions

By Chrissy Stroop

…sure: I was slated to speak at this year’s American Atheists Convention in Phoenix, Arizona over Easter weekend before it was postponed until next year, and I remain slated to speak when the event is able to take place.) Fish, who hails from Michigan himself, contends that the “irresponsible and dangerous” exemptions from public health measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic that some governors have made for religious institutions “are un…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…was 11 weeks pregnant by permitting an abortion in a Catholic hospital in Phoenix. I want to clarify a few basic issues lest the move to focus finally on Catholic women backfire inadvertently. While Maureen Dowd wants a nun for Pope, and Nicholas Kristof extols the virtues of “lowly nuns” and all who work for justice, I worry that a lack of nuance can replicate the dynamics of patriarchy only with a few women religious in charge—or held responsib…

How Mega-Macho-Pastor Mark Driscoll Helps Explain Trump’s Evangelical Support

By Jessica Johnson

…ology or theology as moral guides. When the successful branding of authenticity is achieved by performing shamelessness, such that overt affective responses do not register as fear or anger, but as laughter, it’s time to take humor’s capacity to collectively move and politically mobilize audiences much more seriously. The laughter elicited among audiences during Trump and Driscoll’s performances garner more political pull and spiritual authority t…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…cause he was wearing a Sikh turban, Balbir Singh Sodhi was assassinated in Phoenix, Arizona while pumping gas. More recently, in 2012, six people were killed and four wounded in a massacre shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Toward the end of the month-long period when an array of civil rights organizations had been refused permission to view “The Rise of Al-Qaeda,” Amardeep Singh of the Sikh Coalition, a national organization advocating “civi…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…perstar. Just outside the town of Florence, Arizona, 63 miles southeast of Phoenix, in the middle of the desert, stands St. Anthony’s Monastery. Though built to resemble the great monastic houses of the medieval Christian East, there’s something too clean, too luxurious about St. Anthony’s to pass muster. It’s the mother house of 18 monasteries that, until his death last December, were all more or less under the direct control of one man: Elder Ep…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…tion of his involvement in this milieu is the sign he held at a protest in Phoenix that references his (now removed) YouTube channel “Starseed Academy,” which shares its name with another channel run by Jenny, a Galactic Shepherdess, who has since put up a video disavowing any connection with Angeli. In the interview with the Arizona Republic, he calls himself a “multidimensional being,” whose third eye is open. His involvement with spirituality i…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…y managed by the U.S. federal government as Tonto National Forest, east of Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2014, a proposed copper mine has threatened to permanently alter the area through an underground mining technique that would cause the earth to sink—up to 1,115 feet deep and almost 2 miles across. Apache Stronghold, a grassroots organization devoted to defending sacred sites, has challenged the proposed mining plan in court, arguing that destroying…