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

By Kathryn Joyce

…te what its proponents call “biblical womanhood,” “complementarianism,” or—most bluntly—“the patriarchy movement.” Women gathering to support the patriarchy movement? It’s evangelical counterculture at its most contrarian. The Associated Baptist Press explains the relationship of biblical womanhood to feminism, highlighting an ambitious initiative that arose from the meeting: a signature drive seeking 100,000 women to endorse its “True Woman Manif…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…test news flash that has Wall Street reeling, Bernard Madoff, arguably the most dominant figure at the NASDAQ Exchange, was arrested on one count of Security Fraud by an FBI team investigating the affair. The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched its own investigation, and further charges seem inevitable. The numbers involved are staggering. His company’s value, estimated at some $50 billion is now, by his own admission, based on “one bi…

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

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…off 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 bef…

Latina in America: What CNN Got Wrong

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…on illegal immigration without mentioning their own Lou Dobbs, one of the most public voices vilifying illegal immigrants who is the subject of many Latino/a campaigns demanding CNN fire him. On night number two, the United States’ “wet land dry land policy” for Cubans (who are allowed to stay in the U.S. if they touch dry land) was contrasted with Central American illegal immigrants, who are detained and often sent home. The privilege of being C…

Faith-Based Bailout Part 3

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…work for this administration. They are many of the same people who have demonstrated no concern for the future or the long term, and no sense that they understand the reality or the enormity of the numbers they throw around with such casual abandon. Such leaders cannot, simply cannot, save us. They cannot restore the public trust, which is the only sure way to a slower (but surer) recovery. And such a recovery will be slow. Undoing this kind of d…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y how entirely separate these two events are in current media reportage, almo*]}*st 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 was noteworthy for its candor; Greenspan simply admitted that he did not see the housing c…

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

By Michael J. Iafrate

…asy task, as dioceses are not subject to financial transparency by law and most financial information is kept private or offered in vague terms. As Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky explained to me, financial reports are sometimes presented in a simple way in order to be meaningful to the average parishioner—but that this should be done in the interest of transparency, not in an attempt to obscure information. “The diocese has a responsibil…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…the viable candidates for the Republican nomination hold this view. These broad cultural changes have developed, in part, from a longterm strategy adopted by the Reconstructionists (what Doug Phillips calls multigenerational faithfulness), the most important component of which is the education of children (theirs and insofar as is practical other peoples’ as well). It is not fearmongering, paranoia, or religious bigotry to try to understand their…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…s unrealistic ‘to take someone from a culture where [homosexuality] is the most heinous they can conjure up, and expect them to change’ instantaneously.” The group Solidarity with Egypt LGBTQ posted a YouTube video contrasting official denunciations of the killings from Arab and Muslim governments with the countries’ legal regimes, a number of which punish homosexuality with death. A hacker identifying with Anonymous flooded some ISIS-related Twit…

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

By Rob Shryock

…led the most conservative Catholic College in America, and is the eleventh-most LGBT-unfriendly, it prides itself on fostering dialogue. In that spirit, nine academic departments at Providence co-sponsored a lecture by John Corvino, a pro-gay-marriage philosopher whose website is called “The Gay Moralist.” Corvino’s lecture, “The Meaning of (Gay) Marriage” was to be given on Thursday, September 26th, and would be followed by a critical response fr…