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Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…gle, a move some observers believe was designed to overcome concerns among Mormons (who make up 7% of Nevada’s population) about comments by Angle’s pastor deriding the LDS Church as a “kooky” “cult.” More likely, it’s a move by Romney to appear relevant in the context of a Tea Party-infused, mortgage-meltdown-fueled voter backlash in Nevada. Nevada is about as volatile a place as you’ll find in the American West right now. It has the highest rate…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ry halves of humanity coming together” within his heterosexual marriage is most striking to me, though. Complementarity is something that the religious right appeals to when they can no longer defend procreation as the reason for excluding gays and lesbians from marriage. Complementarity posits that men go with women because “Tab A” is mean for “Slot B.” You can’t have two Tabs and two Slots together since there is no “natural” fit. Duke Universit…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…tured a Nation—by gesturing to the mere fact that a brief quotation from a mostly positive review I wrote for The Boston Globe in 2020 appears on the cover of the paperback edition that came out in June 2021. In my review, I called Jesus and John Wayne “a book that America needs now,” a statement I stand by, and the one that appears on the cover of the paperback—a choice made neither by myself nor by Du Mez. The “theobrogians” of the evangelical w…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…u’ve witnessed due to anti-choice legislation like the Hyde Amendment? The most devastating impact I have personally seen was on a low-income family that already had children and was struggling to make ends meet, but had an unexpected pregnancy. Due to lack of funding and strange barriers to access in Tennessee—like mandatory waiting periods and the like—they were unable to obtain an abortion. They were already living right there on the line, bare…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…show respect even if the person has not actually made the pilgrimage. But mostly, it is about a status. I think about this now, since I have actually waited almo*]}*st 30 years since I tried to go the first time. If I had gone then, I would surely be less anxious to do it again at this age. But then, I may not have considered it as significant. Waiting so long really makes it seem so phenomenal. Here are a few things I would think about if I could do…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…amed for thinking so. The Los Angeles Times reports that Americans spend almo*]}*st 100 billion a year on new car purchases alone, not counting used car purchases or maintenance of existing cars. When gas costs $3.84, reports CNN/Time, Americans spend eleven cents out of every dollar on gasoline. On average, an American spends 72 minutes a day in a car, getting from place to place. In one sense, a car is just functional arrangement of glass, metal a…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he religious right and continue to defend “traditional” marriage, but I think it’s fair to ask why—when jobless rates continue to hover near 10 percent—which issue may be most important to God: how people arrange their intimate relationships, or how we feed and care for those families?…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…s. More than a few of us believe that the Clergy Consultation work was the most affecting and powerful parts of our ministry. It was intense, it was moving, it was real. Howard Moody taught us a whole new dimension of empathy. Perhaps the best tribute to him came from one of our number who famously and irreverently said: “I put my trust in Howard Moody and God, in that order.” We are forever grateful for this good man. ____________ Editor’s Note:…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…gives comfort to the already comfortable while insulting those who suffer most? A virus may not discriminate, but a society that does—and in a huge way—is the exact opposite of one in which all suffer together, experiencing comparable levels of fear and dread. “We salute our heroes”: A more truthful form of this throwaway expression would be “We salute our sacrificial victims.” My postal carrier may appreciate the thank you that I shout to her fr…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…file of evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins. It’s mostly light and chatty, a kind of review of Dawkins’ work to date. But right at the end it gets interesting. The occasion for the profile is the upcoming release of his children’s book, The Magic of Reality. Near the bottom of the last page the article reads: [Dawkins] wants to raise questions—Why is there a sun? What is an earthquake? What about rainbows?—and provide cl…