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Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…body waging “countercultural” rebellion against what they see as the feminist status quo. “We are believing God for a movement of reformation and revival in the hearts and homes of Christian women all around this world,” one organizer, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, said at the close of the conference. “I just believe there is a massive women’s movement of true women in those millions of women who are able to capture all kinds of battlefronts for Christ.” Th…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…an imaginary world without gravity, without downturn, without pain, and most distressing of all, without responsibility. This has been the world of the current administration as well. It was less than four year ago, in the January 2005 State of the Union address, that President Bush proposed permitting US citizens to invest their own Social Security funds in the stock market, in order to take advantage of the higher returns available there. Resis…

The Dirty Little Secret of Every Ponzi Scheme, or: Bernie Madoff’s 150 Year Sentence

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…f was sentenced to one hundred fifty years in prison last week, what was most striking was the stridency of the chorus of outraged New Yorkers outside the Manhattan courthouse, all of them insisting that there was nothing vindictive in this ruling and that “justice had been served.” That a seventy-year-old has been sentenced to 150 years of hard time seems, well, a little odd on its face. What fraction of this sentence will he actually serve befor…

Latina in America: What CNN Got Wrong

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…hasized. The documentary than turned to bilingual Catholic parishes in the St. Louis Missouri area. In one parish, Latino/as are the saviors of the community, bringing in numbers (and I suspect dollars) to support a failing community. In the more substantially covered parish Latino/as are marginalized by Anglos in their community. One member goes so far as to question the need for mass in Spanish. The fact that the universality and diversity of Ca…

Faith-Based Bailout Part 3

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…dollars for a bail-out of our free-falling credit markets. The subtext of story number one, which will likely become story number two in the next day or so, is the partisan sniping that has already consumed the issue. A conservative core of House Republicans now claim, with a semi-straight face, that a partisan floor speech from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually turned them against a bill they came prepared to vote for. The speech “was” partisa…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…lan Greenspan’s rather shocking testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday. One is struck first by how entirely separate these two events are in current media reportage, almost as if to suggest that there are good economics and bad, and little in between, whereas most of the actual marketplace exists in that bizarre “in between.” Still more to the point, I was struck by David Brooks’s partial defense of the Greenspan testimony. For Brooks, the testimony w…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…n the first place. In such contexts, the church has become part of the unjust system itself, playing chaplain to an unjust and destructive economy, offering prayers and charity to that economy’s victims while staying on the payroll of deadly industries. Bishop Stowe of Lexington spoke to me about the money the fossil fuel industries pour into public relations. This use of the industry’s money, he says, might be even more dangerous than any gifts t…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…to be prayed for,” and Bachmann didn’t just “once” attend that school. She still establishes her credentials based on her work there. Her mentor didn’t “once” speak at a Reconstructionist conference, he’s a regular integral part of their work. And as Sarah Posner showed in her piece on Oral Roberts University, Bachmann was steeped in the teaching that American law has a biblical foundation. Gerson distorts the situation as much as those he is crit…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…olences for the victims and condemnation of the killings, including the first-ever statement from the United Nations Security Council condemning violence against people targeted for their sexual orientation. US National Security Advisor Susan Rice told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers “that the global response to the Pulse nightclub massacre is a direct challenge to the so-called Islamic State and those ‘who foster hate and division’ in the U…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…surgical mask. This feeling is sadly familiar, to me and to any gay person. It is the malaise of the closet, the notion that some features of oneself are unspeakable. I am the Other. And if I feel that way, I can only imagine how young gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender Providence College students must feel. It is for them that I remain most concerned. Corvino mentioned that he had received a great number of emails from LGBT students at Provi…