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Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…Stone, the poll teaches two lessons. Firstly, she wants to see Republican policies reflect the views of the party’s constituents. Secondly, Stone says, labels of “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are misleading and do little to reveal people’s political opinions. “National pollsters need to stop using self-labeling to gauge true sentiment on the issue of choice,” she says. “These labels have lost their meaning.” In a Gallup poll earlier this year, 72 p…

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…uidelines for churches” yields more than 27 million results. In the past year, I’ve regularly been contacted by individual congregations, by regional and national judicatories, and religious school administrators for advice on such policies. I would expect, on the one hand, that this work will continue, but, on the other would not be surprised if real energy were fired by what, alas, too often spurs religious groups to internally-focused ethical a…

Obama’s Notre Dame Commencement: Common Ground on Abortion—Or Appeasement of Foes?

By Carlton Veazey

…at. And the question now, as the Obama administration attempts to work out policies to reduce unintended pregnancy, is how to reach a respectful agreement that honors these differences, not how to back down gracefully. President Obama’s call for reducing abortion by reducing unintended pregnancies and making adoption more available ignores the complex emotional and psychological reality of sexual relations and personal decisions. Finding common gr…

Will 2018 Be the Year of Catholic Health Care Dominance?

By Patricia Miller

…tholic hospitals had conflicts with the institution over religiously based policies. A follow-up study found that medically indicated tubal ligations (female sterilization) were the most common source of conflict because the Catholic hospitals’ refusal to perform the procedure at the time of delivery subjected patients to the risk of a second later surgery at another facility. Both Ascension and Dignity Health have been sued by the ACLU on behalf…

Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

…e for a Christian politics and the basis for a comprehensive set of public policies (which is what their work did) the political animals soon left the barn, never to return. Some of them haven’t been inclined to wait for a popular majority to elect Christians of the right sort to power—as we saw on J6. North’s life and theology were animated and informed by a sense of imminent apocalypse: nuclear, financial, and otherwise. He made news for a while…

The War On Terror Is Over

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…or anything else that is inherent in American society, but because of its policies and actions, particularly in the Middle East. Specifically, the U.S. is regarded as the enemy of Islam because of its support of undemocratic dictators like Egypt’s Mubarak and the Saud family monarchy in Saudi Arabia, its invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and for its one-sided support for Israel without equal concern for the rights of Palestine. Whe…

In Historic Vote, Presbyterians to Allow LGBT Clergy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ys there is more work ahead for More Light. They will now begin to work on policies and procedures needed to implement the new amendment. “More Light churches are more likely to call out LGBT ministers, but others may be reluctant and need encouragement, so we’re creating affirming guidelines to assist churches in this process because changing the law itself won’t have meaning if we don’t get actual LGBT people serving in churches,” Adee said. Man…

By the Way: Naming The Religious Right

By Randall Balmer

…ration of evangelicals, “Christian” was a label of honor and distinction. It marked us off as followers of Jesus. Identifying oneself as a “Christian” was infinitely preferable to being merely “religious.” Given the policies and the tactics associated with this movement of politically conservative evangelicals over the course it its thirty-year history, 1978 to 2008, the term “Religious Right” is perfectly appropriate….

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…the job such a bad name that the bar is low. Undoing their structures and policies, especially regarding criminal sexual scandals and Vatican finances, will take longer than these first nine months of the Francis papacy. The phenomenon of a pope becoming a pop culture icon is fascinating, troubling, and not a little confusing. Here are a few of the puzzles I’m struggling with as I try to make sense of the current Catholic religious scene. 1. Pope…

Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering

By Laura R. Olson

…tiatives soon after his 2001 inauguration. Whatever the real effect of the policies, one might also view Bush’s emphasis on “compassionate conservatism” and local-level faith-based engagement as an extension of a longer-term Republican enthusiasm for community volunteerism. George H. W. Bush, for example, famously referenced “a thousand points of light… all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good” i…