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Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…ions should be burdened by having to pay for it. The bishops have been claiming since 2012 that birth control is “ubiquitous and inexpensive” and anyone who wants it can get it without insurance coverage for $10 at Target. And as usual, bishops’ allies on the right jumped right on it. Here’s Sean Hannity back in January on his radio show: Why should Americans be paying the $9 a month for birth control pills that you can get at Wal-Mart? Why should…

Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…of the problem), and offered their services at such a premium that a latecoming Minister of Finance was forced to conclude in exasperation “that it would be cheaper and more efficient to put all of Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs.” The public schools operate with surprising inefficiency, with students scoring the lowest numbers in Europe despite having four times as many teachers as Europe’s highest ranked system, in Finland. There are ther…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ictimized homosexuals. We victimized the environment. We’re currently victimizing immigrants. It’s all the same mentality. What is it about Christianity that makes us constantly be a victimizer? I think it’s because we’ve adopted victimizing theology. We spend all our time in church talking about how sinful and evil human beings are. The only way you can tolerate listening to that is to pass it on. We have to pass on this hostility that we have. T…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…some of these areas, as part of a project entitled “The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities,” based at the Social Science Research Council. The tension was palpable, particular in Alexandra, as our van made its way down narrow roads lined with young men. With an unemployment rate hovering close to forty percent for young black South Africans, it was not surprising to see so many them restlessly roaming the streets. Our research team was headed t…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…n initiation and began celebrating the sacraments only behind closed doors, in order to keep out those who were not full members of the church. Cyril’s aim was to manage people’s identities: did they identify with Christ, or the empire? If they were committed to Christ, then they would express that commitment out of public view. Maybe secrecy is not the right prescription for American Christians in the present moment. But the wise discernment exhi…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…challenged. What do you see as the potential fallout from such a broad permission to deny an entire category of coverage? Patricia Miller: The most interesting thing about the astounding breadth of the proposed exemption is that it confirms what I and other opponents of the original, ever-expanding exemption suspected in the first place—that this was never about an actual conscience exemption as they have been traditionally understood, but was ab…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…s . . . And yet, and yet, the times are inexhaustibly good, solaced by the courage and hope of many.” Cynicism is understandable, and despair more so. But instead of siding with cheap, whitewashed nostalgia, let us note that certain moments in the past remind us of the future that may yet still be achieved….

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…elieves, that’s not ghettoization, it’s just the reality of holding a tiny minority opinion. Michael Peroutka didn’t miss out on the presidency because his supporters were ghettoized. He lost because a whole lot of people wanted someone else to be president instead of Peroutka. And having a minority opinion can be, you know, fine! I’ve been told I hold many such opinions myself. But it’s a little bit disingenuous to then say, “What’s this? My u…

Changing the Jewish State and the State of Jews: J Street and the Future of Israel

By Mark LeVine

…ents, coupled with the fear that it could all be wiped away in a matter of minutes if Israel’s enemies had their way. I didn’t really know who Israel’s enemies were, and I don’t think they were even mentioned by name. It was just accepted that Israel was under mortal threat (this was around the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War) and could trust no one but the United States and the American Jewish community for its security. Without our constant vigi…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…onths earlier, the very world turned upside down. Society itself seemed to mimic the chaos of the medieval Shrovetide, the pre-Lenten season best known for wild Carnival celebrations, the most famous of which in the U.S. is Mardi Gras—which saw the ordination of an “Abbot of Unreason” or the coronation of a “Lord of Misrule.” Should it be any wonder then, this state of eternal carnival? For the subjects of Strasbourg, the Abbot of Unreason found a…