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UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…sted that the bill was crafted to avoid ruffling the feathers of the large numbers of practicing Christians currently working in Quebec’s public sector—a less than insignificant number of which do happen to wear (typically small) crucifixes—and thus the visual code aimed its sights more narrowly on undesirable religious minorities, while at the same time allowing the government to proclaim the even-handedness of its approach. But whatever the act…

Do Catholic Responses to Stem Cell-Derived Covid-19 Vaccines Open a Door to a New Era in Health Care for LGBTQ+ and Others?

By Marianne Duddy-Burke

…esponds to some of the most critical and life-sustaining needs of all. The management and distribution of health information and resources is clearly among the issues that must be rethought and reconstructed in the months and years ahead. Catholic and other faith-based health providers could be important partners in this reframing, through their health services, institutions of higher learning, and interactions with governmental institutions and p…

Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?

By Bill Berkowitz

…in federal funds handed out to faith-based organizations in 2003, African-American churches had received many millions while, at the same time, many African-American church leaders had publicly switched party affiliation in time for the 2004 presidential election. The Ultimate Scam: Wade Horn Feeds his Wife Of all the curious goings on tied to the faith-based initiative, perhaps no one exemplifies the shady side better than longtime conservative…

Toward a Literature of Abuse

By Donna Freitas

…bolic items she’d place inside a paper lunch bag, designed to help parents manage this transition of seeing their little three-year-old kids go off to school for the first time (the parents used to cry way more than their kids, Mom used to say). As I remembered this, I began to wonder, what if my mother had made me my very own survival kit for after she died: what would she have put in it and why? And what, in my experience of mourning her death,…

Bishops More Welcoming To LGBT, But Not to Women

By Patricia Miller

…ed about the extraordinary juggling act that families face today trying to manage even two children while working and maintaining a home and what an additional unplanned pregnancy might mean to them? Where was the woman talking about the delicate dance of fertility management for someone whose window for having a family falls sometime between when the last grad school loan is paid off and the first gray hairs appear? Even as they take tentative st…

Vietnam, the Analogy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…want to get out, the question is how? The challenge Obama faces is how to manage the transition into his own presidency. He inherited the Bush economy; but now, with his Gaithner-style “reforms” firmly in place, the economy is his team’s, not Bush’s. So too with the wars. What is happening is that both of these theaters, in Iraq and Afghanistan, are in the process of becoming Obama’s wars, and Obama’s problems, not Bush’s or Cheney’s anymore. It…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…in the USA. We were mainly Muslim scholars who worked together through the American Academy of Religion. Omid Safi suggested that we each contribute an essay to a book entitled Progressive Muslims: on Gender, Justice and Pluralism (2003) in order to publish our stance (political, cultural and theological) as progressive Muslims. For that volume, I decided to write an essay on homosexuality in Islam. I was frankly afraid of doing it, being uncertai…

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…tholic missions in California, where I grew up, and where scores of Native Americans died due to the missionary efforts of the recently canonized Junipero Serra, among others. More recently, Catholic missionary efforts have focused more on providing food and medical aid in countries like South Sudan, where few secular NGOs have been willing to go. And recent discussions of Tim Kaine’s work in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps have lead to further confusi…

Five Flood Stories You Didn’t Know About

By Ingrid Lilly

…e in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and flood stories crop up in Hindu, American Indian, and African story-telling as well. The first known flood story comes from Sumer in the tale of Atra-hasis (19th century, BCE). This story sets the basic elements of the ancient genre: gods try to eradicate humanity, while a flood hero builds a boat to save the animals. A tragicomedy about polytheism starring petty gods who complain like tired parents annoye…

Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…u’s jingoism and Yosef’s apocalyptic messages are a powerful combination. Let us hope that along with their ‘partners’ in Tehran they don’t manage to take us all to the brink of war—and beyond….