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Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

…of barbaric abortion bans. Quite the opposite. The latest press comes because the state may impose a new ban as draconian as Ohio’s in a special session of the state legislature set to start on July 25, and because State Attorney General Todd Rokita has, in a fit of rabid anti-abortion zeal, subjected Dr. Bernard to a vicious smear campaign. Dr. Bernard has taken steps toward a defamation lawsuit against Rokita. After Republicans nationally made…

Can Poetry Heal the Planet?

By Gary Gach

…rs poetica than the “First thought, best thought,” that Allen Ginsberg espoused (via his teacher Chogyam Trungpa). It is, rather, the intuition, mentioned earlier, wherein we can confront such vital questions as “Who am I?” and “How can I deal with my pain?” It’s precisely here we can awaken to our inner teacher. To that aim, Stephen Levine’s exemplary poetry inspires us to trust our own vision, hold it, make it whole. To put a sharper point on th…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…t fail, or are overturned by courts, there has been a concerted attempt to use bogeymen (such as minorities committing voter fraud or Muslim terrorists) to justify certain actions. These are often promoted under the premise of upholding American values, when in reality they maliciously target the concept of equal citizenship in a democracy. What Trump has done is bring out into the open what had previously been done behind the scenes, or with litt…

Does the Inquisition Explain the Modern World?

By Gordon Haber

…d to tell us about it: “I passed the vast expanse of St. Peter’s Square, paused momentarily in the shade beneath a curving flank of Bernini’s colonnade”; “The roads of southwestern France, in the shadow of the Pyrenees, wind among deep valleys and steep gorges”; “Reading a book in an aircraft cruising above the Syrian Desert.” And so on. Then there’s Murphy’s habit of interrupting his narrative to prove his grand thesis, that the Inquisition “help…

Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr

By Karen E. Park

…Burke said “It is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of cell lines of aborted fetuses. The thought of the introduction of such a vaccine into one’s body is rightly abhorrent. At the same time, it must be clear that vaccination cannot be imposed upon citizens in a totalitarian manner.” While Trump was vowing that the vaccines would be developed in record time with Operation Warp Speed, Burke was already putting arguments i…

Sacred&Profane: On Sexual Diversity, Perversity, and Ecstasy

By Gary Laderman

…ith religious implications? From the copulation of animals so gametes can fuse to generate new life, to the explosion of pornography across cyberspace (nearly 30,000 users per second), sexual desire is an inescapable reality of the world we live in. Sex is a force at work in every nook and cranny of social and cultural life: in the home, office, mall, classroom, hospital; it’s imaged on television, computer, theater, and mental screens; aroused at…

What Most Critics Missed About Dustin Lance Black’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’

By Cristina Rosetti

…ism made headlines in 2019 with the tragic murder of families from LaMora, Mexico. But Mormon fundamentalism doesn’t just include the groups with histories connected to Woolley or the 1886 Revelation. And it isn’t just about polygamy. Today, fundamentalist Mormonism encapsulates the experience of many men—and it is men—who claim divine revelation as the impetus to start their own group. This includes Robert Crossfield, the Lafferty’s leader after…

The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…s, as some anti-UN activists maintain, that the UN is an organization that promotes eugenics. Concerned Women for America has claimed that the UNFPA has been “intimately involved” in the promoting abortion in China under that country’s one-child policy, which it claims has killed a number of people “comparable to the horrendous genocides by Hitler and Pol Pot.” (The eugenics falsehood is also disseminated about Planned Parenthood, and in this coun…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…more than just hello. Rev. McBride explains, “It means I see you, and because I see you, you exist.” The response Ngikhona, simply means, “I am here.” “Seeing the blatant expression of institutional and structural racism forced me to pause and actually reevaluate my own sense of the American story and what the role of faith is in that,” says McBride. “Things have not changed here. People are still being targeted, they’re still being stopped, they…

Who is God? Can You Trust Him?

By Daniel Schultz

…aith on the first three chapters of Genesis ignores the God of Exodus, who uses creation in service of liberation. Not to mention Jesus? Hey, I’m just one of those heathens who thinks God is still speaking. But from where I sit, trust in God makes a lot more sense based on how he (or she) continues to free people in the here and now. Take, for example, the current mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Praying for God’s miraculous intervention is one thing….