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Nightly News Turns to Bishops About Contraception More Often Than Docs

By Patricia Miller

…is often left out of current coverage. There is a need for clinicians with this expertise to serve as experts who can address the scientific evidence about the public health and sociocultural benefits of contraception. In other words, the next time the nightly news does a segment about contraception, and what it does and doesn’t do, and who it does and doesn’t benefit, maybe they should consider asking an actual doctor in addition to the Catholic…

Beliefnet Readers: Are You Really Offended by the Word “Feminism”?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…a non-trivial number of readers of Beliefnet out there are offended by the word feminist. They don’t just disagree with certain tenets of feminism (which is far from monolithic, btw). They don’t just think, “Eh, that’s not really my thing, but whatevs, I like the site anyway and there are zillions of other people to read there. Oh, say! I think I’ll take the ‘What religion are you?’ quiz again just to see if I’ve changed.” They don’t have an argum…

“Debt” is a Spiritual Word

By Donna Schaper

…forgive me for not knowing what to do or say next.” In each case, debt is newly structured while at the same time energy transfer results in market shaking and market-shaping freedom. People dwell in that freedom. Spiritual economies involve a transfer of energy. When money transfers, there is indeed energy. But when spiritual energies transfer, we are reanimated, reconceived, and reborn. We find a way to understand what an economy is and what pl…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…ic school system. Meanwhile, earlier this year, conservative activist Alex Newman told the NAR-aligned Truth & Liberty Coalition that public schools are teaching a “wicked religion from the pit of hell.” Newman, whose nonprofit recently held its annual fundraiser at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, told a crowd at the NAR-influenced Turning Point USA‘s Educators Summit that “Satan wants your kids” and that children in public schools are under spiritual…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat Jesus didn’t simply die, he was executed by the domination system that ruled his world. He was executed because he had become a radical critic of the way that world was put together and he was beginning to attract a following. To be very blunt, it’s difficult for me to imagine how anybody who has seen what the Bible and Jesus are about could vote for policies that actually maintain or increase the wealth of those at the top in our day. So, I d…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es with such laws, local magistrates may still refuse gay couples, but the new ruling binds judges in all states to rule in favor of couples who challenge such laws. his week, an official in the state of Chihuahua ordered that couples no longer need to get an amparo and must be allowed to marry. Also this week, an appeals court accepted a lawsuit against the Constitutional Court of Yucatán for refusing to recognize that the Congress of Yucatán has…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bad guys sometimes. Time will tell if Beck’s renunciation of violence and bigotry is true or if he’ll soon be back to his old tricks, because while he condemned the New York attackers’ actions as “bigotry for sport,” Beck clearly has no trouble with bigotry for profit….

New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With

By Samira K. Mehta

…orship of Spanish regents Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus “discovered” a “New World”—bringing genocide and Western European Christian imperialism in his wake. Despite the well-documented record of his atrocities, Catholic Spain and Italy and many in the ostensibly secular United States continue to claim and celebrate Columbus’ “discoveries.” The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic organization named in his honor, naturally defend him on their websi…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…less than a rite of June. Another seasonal advent is the expansion of the New York Times Weddings/Celebrations pages of the Sunday Styles section. “The wedding page is a weekly obsession for thousands of Times readers,” David Brooks wrote in 1997. Timothy Noah of Slate agreed, saying that they contain a “certain camp value for readers.” Mothers, hipsters, politicos, and the lovelorn concur: reading the Times wedding pages is periodical porn. Wher…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…barrasses herself by primarily asking Aslan not about the substance of his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, but why he, a Muslim, could and would write a book about Jesus. After Aslan calmly provides his credentials as a scholar of religions, Green, apparently unsatisfied with his answer asks, “But it still begs the question, though, why you would be interested in the founder of Christianity?” Again, Aslan informs Green…