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Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…t—is that Citizens United will vastly strengthen the hand of the predatory class to call the tune for politicians across the political spectrum. Much more illuminating than the lead coverage in Friday’s New York Times was the sidebar by David Kirkpatrick: “Lobbies’ New Power: Cross Us, And Our Cash Will Bury You.” Justice John Paul Stevens’ dissent (joined by Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor) was both pungent and melancholy: an elegy, real…

Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…rogressive values like support for reproductive rights to win back working class Catholics. Krueger says that the best political way forward for the Democrats is what he calls a “50-state/all constituencies” strategy that includes a strong Catholic outreach component. He notes that Hillary Clinton’s outreach to Catholics was notably less robust than Barack Obama’s. She didn’t recruit prominent Catholic backers the way that Obama did and skipped im…

Carter, Speaking Out Against Gender Discrimination, Gives “Elder Care” a New Meaning

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ean, and host church functions. Oh, and occasionally teach a Sunday School class—as long as it was a women’s class, since a woman is not permitted to teach a man. I left the Southern Baptist church a long time ago—but some, like former president Jimmy Carter—have taken longer to get the message. It took him sixty years to renounce his membership—citing the treatment of women and girls as his reason: So my decision to sever my ties with the Souther…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…of its urgency? What if a convergence of new sources of investment, rising business classes and ever more sophisticated politicians neither needed nor wanted to go West? If a rising China displaced America, what happens to the typical narrative—never mind the vile discourse al Qaeda propagates? Our president, more perceptive in this department than previous occupants of the office, senses these trends. Obama has recently encouraged the G8 to give…

The Mormon Version of Infallibility

By Holly Welker

…d that you’ll get results much like his: All but one man in the priesthood class said, “Oh, yeah. That’s true. That’s what we believe.” When, at the end of class, Stevens admitted that this was his paraphrase of the doctrine of infallibility as explained by a Catholic encyclopedia , they said something like, “Oh, well, we don’t believe that. That’s popish nonsense.” What Mormons have instead of infallibility is “instrayability,” a coinage by Steve…

Former Opponent Invites Gays to the Wedding Party

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ites, much larger numbers of Americans, particularly in middle and working-class America, are abandoning the institution entirely, with harmful social and personal consequences.” Blankenhorn sees this disparity leading to further inequality, a weakened middle class and children in danger. His proposal is to bring together everyone who is concerned with strengthening marriage, including gays and lesbians. The new conversation does not presuppose or…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…where my students are coming from makes me a more effective teacher. In a class of thirty, I was able to get about three-fourths to respond. With the exception of one, each expressed a negative view of “religion.” I don’t teach in some secular bastion of higher education, where such responses to “religion” might be par for the course. I teach at a small, church-affiliated school located deep in the eastern quadrant of the Bible Belt, in rural Nor…

Response: Is the Centrist Orthodoxy True?

By Frederick Clarkson

…n Industrial Complex” (RIC)—that self-perpetuating and mutually justifying class of political consultants, Democratic Party-related think tanks, and conveyor-belt journalists. Part of what launched the debate is that this combination has, among other things, manufactured and brought to market a new product line, the Faux Religious Left, whose purpose is, as Silk reports, to serve as a “counterpoise” to the Religious Right. Like Genuine Faux Leathe…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…d on which candidate presented themselves as most in touch with the middle class, few questioned the very idea of a middle; a class that, by definition, assumes the continued existence of the lower class. The Nation of Islam speaks to those sensitive to that void, whether or not those listeners buy into Nation theology and tactics. Lawrence Mamiya, a professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Vassar College, contends that while the Nation suppo…

Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…Catholic Thought, a collaboration of clergy and laity, has sponsored these classes for years. Classes offered at the university have existed alongside much more didactic classes in Catholic theology held at the Institute in the basement of the St. John’s Newman Center residence halls right on campus. In some respects, of course, this agreement to offer theology courses in a public university may be controversial. However, it was never funded from…