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McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…d have been ripped from the headlines of the sensationalistic conservative site World Net Daily, but the setting was far more staid. The speaker, David Noebel, part of The King’s College Distinguished Visitors series, was introduced by outgoing King’s Provost and World magazine editor Marvin Olasky as “one of the long-lasting stalwarts of fighting for a lot of things we’re for here at King’s: religious, political, and economic liberty.” King’s, a…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…minational leadership. Chmielewski’s description of herself in signing her online writing, “Homeschooler, Homebirther, Homechurcher,” is an apt summary of the lifestyle: one of deeply interwoven home industries, where a family is reliant on itself to as great an extent as possible, but ultimately always reliant on God. As Chmielewski wrote on her blog, “God never meant for man (Pregnant Women) to surrender himself (herself) to the total control of…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…ence a series of 30-40 pictures of Hernandez taken from the Archdiocese website—and scrubbed from the site days after they were submitted as evidence—which showed him participating in official Church activities and retreats through March 2010. Birge and her attorney identified a prior victim, who anonymously gave a statement for the plaintiffs, alleging that Hernandez attempted to rape her under very similar circumstances several years earlier. In…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…parade in Jerusalem, police arrested a man from central Israel for making “online threats” against attendees. From i24 News: While Tel Aviv’s gay pride parade, the second largest in the world, is one of the city’s annual highlights, it’s counterpart in Jerusalem, a city sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians, is always smaller and more controversial. Jerusalem’s pride parade was the target of violence in 2015, ultra-Orthodox extremist Yishai Shlis…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…n traditional/Orthodox Judaism (and reviled by many Jewish feminists) is a site of profound, unarticulated homoeroticism. Laura Levitt makes a Jewish case against marriage, and possibly monogamy. Jay Michaelson suggests that queerness should implicate everyone’s theology, and Elliot Kukla looks at the ways in which classical rabbinic literature was surprisingly encouraging of intersex love relationships. There’s definitely plenty that, I hope, wil…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…rmer Post correspondent himself) in an article cross-posted on Olivet’s website and on christianpost.com. According to Park, the event described was not a wedding, but a “service for couples who desire to dedicate their family to God in front of other believers before marriage.” Park also contends that couples are not arranged, but “apply to participate after a period of courtship.” Park goes on to point out that after the initial CT article, Chua…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…“Muslim Mural is UNNECESSARY provocation.” Tempers are running even higher online, where noted blogger and Islam critic Pamela Geller called the mural “a stab in the eye”…. None of the above is really fictional. All of the quotes are authentic; I just borrowed them from the “Ground Zero Mosque” saga. The “Islam” mural is real, too. You can see it for yourself in a proud spot on the dome of the Library of Congress, part of a series called “Human Kn…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…2006, declined a request for an interview. However, he says on the TPCN website that he joined the group after conducting research that convinced him that “countless women were suffering through a decision they never really wanted to make—nor wouldn’t have to—if just one other person were available to listen, support, protect, and educate.” According to a 2011 report by NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, the money spent on Alternatives to Abortion could have…

RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…riters, and is on the verge of rolling out a series of key upgrades to the site—an enhanced reading experience, better integration with social media, peace on earth. (We’ll be updating via our newsletter, here.) It’s our birthday, but it’s you who deserve the party (and the gluten-free, kosher, vegan, cruelty-free cake). Thank you for reading, for writing, and for your thoughtful and dynamic engagement with the ever-evolving question of religion i…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…racter of a child, the success of a journey or a marriage or a battle, the site of buried treasure, the identity of a thief. Fifteen chapters tell how to forecast the weather. Juste looked around nervously. “Wait a minute. We have to be very careful. I expect we’ll get in trouble. We are not supposed to consult the manuscripts together. Why? It’s the rules. The rules are very strict. I have an idea.” He got up. “I’ll try something.” He intercepte…