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American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…their ministry over an extended period of time.” (par. 9) Whose fault was that? Another reason given is that “Some sisters serving in ecclesial structures receive relatively low salaries or have lost their positions in the downsizing of the institutions they serve.” (par. 9) Well, those would be churches for the most part. These statements astonish in their baldness. It is the institutional church that “undercompensated” women religious for genera…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…im was started by students at YCC.) This is truly a revolutionary change. What does it look like? What does it mean? Social Activist Jews Studying Talmud? On a Sunday morning in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, twenty people gather around a table to study Jewish texts. The texts are out of the classical canon: the Bible, of course, but also the third-century Mishnah and its sixth-century commentary, the Babylonian Talmud, and the medieval…

Rick Santorum Figures Out the Feminist Plot to Create “Phony” Abortion Exceptions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…and straight people and men and nuclear families, and because we’re angry that that has not proven to be a winning recruitment strategy or slogan, we’ve decided just to lie a lot. Also, abortions are super fun. Especially the late-term kind. I mean, I can’t fathom why they account for just one percent of all abortions. Not that I’ve had one myself, but judging from the Yelp reviews at the Topeka Abortionplex, they are totally fun. So, hats off to…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…grich “tough guy” dynamic Sarah Posner wrote about here. I’ve often noted that Romney doesn’t code traditional “tough-guy” masculine, which I believe is attributable to Mormon culture. 5. Religiosity subsumes ethics. Despite last-minute revelations of marital infidelity that could have impacted religiously-identified voters, Gingrich soared. That too is a curious South Carolina outcome that begs for clarification. I’ll be talking about “God and Po…

Declaring a Theological State of Emergency: Trump’s Ignorance Must Not Be Ours

By Mary E. Hunt

…at the beginning since Mr. Trump’s ignorance of the Muslim faith mirrors that of many Americans. “Islam” has become a code word for terrorism. In fact, it is the name of a monotheistic faith tradition based on the Qur’an which is practiced by more than 1.6 billion people, nearly a quarter of the world. Its practitioners are referred to as Muslims. So our popular pedagogy must begin in order to right the wrongs of misinformation and demagoguery. J…

Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…ality to Nazism. There was, of course, no need to debate Catholics for Equality’s mission by mentioning Soros. The fact that NOM did speaks to an effort to deploy conservative tropes about who is or isn’t the “real” religious person, and to drop code that political adversaries betray God to support evil. But it was Gallagher who had the gall to call out Catholics for Equality in her prepared remarks. “There is still time to repent,” she said witho…

Orrin Hatch: Health Care Dollars for Prayer Cures, But Not Abortion

By Peter Laarman

…eparate rider for abortion coverage. Michigan’s Sen. Debbie Stabenow said that Hatch would impose an “unprecedented restriction on people who paid for their own health care insurance.” I say look on the bright side, Sen. Stabenow! Women who lose existing abortion coverage thanks to Hatch will have nothing to worry about. They can get paid for prayer sessions to make their pregnancies magically disappear. Hatch taketh away, but he also giveth. What…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…ection, there is reason to remain skeptical. Mayor Keith Summey concluded that the “lesson” from the release of Santana’s video is that the public should “give us the appropriate time to investigate, find out exactly what happened, and… act accordingly.” In other words, the North Charleston Police Department can be trusted to act in the face of clear-cut, objective evidence, and body cameras will ensure that officials will have access to such evid…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…e prayed for anyone considering a run in his district to “lose interest.” That “that hedge of thorns has protected me all these years,” Webster continued, even when his political opponents referred to him and allies as “conservative, gun-toting Bible thumpers.” He claims that “pride is so destructive,” yet seems quite proud that his “hedge of thorns” has made his political career a success. Razing Ruth, another anti-biblical patriarchy blog, descr…

Catholic Pro-Choice Leader: Democratic Party Has “Turned Its Back” On Poor Women

By Sarah Posner

…he right — “the status quo has not been preserved,” said O’Brien. He said that President Obama had promised pro-choice groups “that no one would be worse off as a result of health care reform.” But, he continued, “believe me, women are worse off with regard to the right to choose. Not all women, naturally, if it were all women, there would be a major electoral price to pay. It’s the poor women and the dispossessed. That the Democratic Party has tu…