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Religious Youth Activists Take to Hill for Comprehensive Sex Education

By Sarah Posner

…orking in coalition with Advocates for Youth, Catholics for Choice, Choice USA, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood, SIECUS, and the Sierra Club to lobby Congress to end funding of abstinence-only programs and fund comprehensive sex education. As part of its Sex Ed Month of Action, SYRF is encouraging activists to call their representatives on the Hill today. On the Senate side in particular, an amen…

Pete Seeger Was No Saint

By Gwynne Watkins

…iritual element in Seeger’s work, whether it’s “If I Had a Hammer” or “Turn, Turn, Turn” (which he adapted from Ecclesiastes). “[I used to say] I was an atheist,” Seeger told Beliefnet. “Now I say, it’s all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I’m not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I’m looking at God. Whenever I’m listening to something I’m listening to God…I’ve had preache…

Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…o Maine to the Midwest and worked as a waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, and, most famously, at Wal-Mart for her Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001). Life was so hard in this world, she concluded that it was little wonder that so many turned to otherworldly Pentecostalism. Smiley and West seem to want to draw from all these genres (fiction, sociology, history, and autobiography) to highlight the plight of the poor. The effe…

Bibi’s Megillah to Obama

By Sarah Posner

…en inclined to cast Persians in a bad light, he could have just given Obama, say, a paperweight or a nice fountain pen. Of course, those things wouldn’t have had quite the same emotional impact on conservative American Jews and conservative American evangelicals as a Bible story that, by Netanyahu’s reading, depicts Iranians as eternal enemies. And I guess Netanyahu, like any politician, hates to miss an opportunity to reach his base. (In case wor…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…giving system of mutual flourishing, yet we’re living out a system of death, pain, injustice, and separation. Ecumenism is about people loving one another hard enough, deep enough, to sit and be together in amidst tremendous confusion and pain. A young Episcopal chaplain concurs: I find myself believing it to be very important to bring more Orthodox Christian and evangelical voices to our conversation for better balance. We need each other; we nee…

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

…men visits—to qualify for Medicaid and some private insurance reimbursement, and now, with the aid of the Trump administration, actual Title X family planning funding. The Obria Group has been growing by leaps and bounds—from six clinics in 2006 to 36 affiliates today with a goal of 200 clinics by 2020. It describes its mission statement as “Being led by God, we offer medical services pertaining to primary care, pregnancy and reproductive health,…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…ut I also hope to tell a larger story about U.S. Roman Catholic masculinity, mourning, upward mobility and whiteness. Another way of saying this is that I want to explore how suburban Roman Catholics became, in our present moment, a significantly Trumpish demographic. I am not sure I will like what I find, but it’s clearly part of understanding contemporary Catholicism. And I know I will be surprised. Talking to people about their lives and loves,…

The Problem(s) With Trump’s Dogwhistle to Evangelicals

By Patricia Miller

…ical, such as the Presbyterian Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Protestant denomination that Trump has been formally affiliated with, is as mainline as they come. Despite his effort to appeal to them, Trump clearly has no idea what constitutes an evangelical. But Trump’s biggest misstep is in asserting that any whiff of Catholicism would sour Evangelicals in Iowa and elsewhere on Cruz. After all, it was a Catholic–Evangelical…

Wall St., Main St., Religion, and the Bailout

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Antiques.” This all makes for a mightily confusing story about Main Street, USA. On the down side, there were four boarded up storefronts, and three others in the process of winding down or going out of business. On the up side, this community was well-heeled enough to support three beauty salons and (maybe) four eateries. There seemed to be thriving Mexican-American and African-American communities, and enough young people to support several sto…

Hip-Hop Religion and Spiritual Sampling in a “Post-Racial” Age

By Josef Sorett

…ormation. In addition to pillars of wisdom, sutras, and meditations on fear, peace, and love and happiness, he cites divine intervention at certain events in his own life. For instance, while running to escape a mob that he had provoked with gun talk, RZA claims that, “just for a minute, Allah made me invisible… by taking off my hat and believing that they didn’t see me? That was faith—a desperate faith, a true faith.” Sure, readers will struggle…