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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…

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

By Peter Laarman

…exas and Oklahoma in this group). Most of the others are from Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Idaho, with a remaining smattering of members from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and New Jersey. They of course would deny that there is any racial agenda, but it is the state legislative counterparts of these very same folks who have worked overtime to restrict voting rights, opt out of Medicaid participation under Obamacare, and wreck t…

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

By Grant Gallicho

…regular basis. Many bishops do, but not all. In the Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico, for example, the chair of the review board recently admitted that the bishop has never met with the board. The relationship between a review board and the bishop should not be adversarial or distant. Review boards are meant to help a bishop do his job. Second, standardize review-board procedures. Not all review boards are created equal. In Philadelphia, for example…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…s Forbes’ conservative Christian publisher Rich Karlgaard who quipped that listening to a pastor preach on business is like listening to a eunuch lecture on sex: neither has hands-on experience. The failure of the logic is obvious but the next section is revealing for an author who once worked at the world’s foremost anti-evolution “think tank,” devoted to the replacement of universally-accepted science with Christian beliefs: No serious Christian…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…al Park. On the Day of the Dead, or All Soul’s Day, Catholic Christians in Mexico and many other cultures visit their dead, picnic in cemeteries, tell stories, cook favorite foods which they bring to their dead family members. This acknowledgment of the continuity of relationships after death is at the center of the new instruction. The Catholic Church says burial in sacred ground is better than keeping the remains at home or scattering them in va…

An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…the Republican Party on reproductive and LGBT issues, even as evangelical promotion of immigration reform fell on deaf GOP ears. More recently, Rodriguez jumped on board the anti-contraception bandwagon, supporting conservative opposition to the Affordable Care Act contraception coverage requirement on “religious freedom” grounds. Yet Rodriguez’s actual electoral usefulness to the GOP—apart from providing an evangelical face for convention covera…

Praying for a Victory: Packed Supreme Court Takes Up Yet Another Christian Nationalist Cause

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n, and since then, the Supreme Court has been packed with Christian nationalists who are, to state the case mildly, highly sympathetic to the Institute’s crusade to weaponize religious freedom. In fact, one of the Institute’s own lawyers is now a federal judge—you may remember Matthew Kacsmaryk as the judge who abused his power to force the Biden administration to reinstate Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. (Another Institute lawyer, Jeff Mateer,…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…lry; it’s a representation of your intimate relationship with the industrialist drumbeat that is standard time. Timekeepers call central clocks “master clocks,” and others “slave clocks.” Through Thompson’s lens, these expressions look all too descriptive. It’s a potent analysis. Standard time does allow for new negotiations between individuals and groups. It allows authority figures to shape the schedules of people—to make them, in a word, discip…

AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference

By Jeanne Carstensen

…cluding the writings of Patricia Hill Collins and Delores Williams, survivalist theology focuses on ordinary women’s “survival strategies as a form of agency.” It also embraces the tendency of poor women to approach Christianity and the Bible as vehicles of hope and tools for survival. In contrast, traditional male-dominated Christian theology is more retribution-based. For Haddad, it’s essential to understand that for poor rural women of faith in…

Ghosts of Halloween Past

By The Editors

…us to offer it, is an assortment of stories about ghosts, death, fundamentalists, and general spookiness. _______________ Death Couture: Not for Halloween Only STEPHEN ANDES De-exoticizing Mexico’s patron saint of death Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre JOHN W. MOREHEAD Reflections on our monstrous creations The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween Hell Houses LUCIA HULSETHER A 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods offers violenc…