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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…publish the Bible in columns. No other book is published that way except encyclopedias, dictionaries, and telephone books. You don’t want to read those books, you go to them for authoritative answers and you don’t argue with the dictionary. If you’re playing Scrabble you go to the dictionary to settle the argument. We’ve encouraged people to think about the Bible as this kind of book, a source of authority, the final word, not to be debated. I th…

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

By Ed Simon

…y the hallucinogenic fungus ergot. Most experts find these theories to be unconvincing; the arrhythmic, nervous twitching of ergotism is unlike the coordinated dancing of the choreomaniacs, with Waller emphasizing that “No chemical or biological agent known to sixteenth-century Europe could have impelled Frau Troffea … to dance for several grueling days.” Connections are made between northern European dance manias and southern Italian tarantism, t…

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

By Mark LeVine

…. My father always folded over one of the small amounts—not enough to seem cheap, since he was a doctor and a “respected member of the community” (as my mother described him), but certainly not the amount some of his friends and colleagues donated. I didn’t understand it then, but I think my father—born of Lithuanian immigrants, child of the Great Depression, a no-nonsense person who disdained ideologies of all types and never had a bad word to sa…

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…he United States have come to approve of contraception under some circumstances. The Roman Catholic Church has not. I mean, not officially. If you are inclined to think of the Catholic Church as the church which has stayed faithful while other schismatic sects have veered from the truth, that will likely strike you as significant. Some of the guardians of Catholic identity think it would be a great idea for the patients to sort this out in advanc…

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

By Jason C. Bivins

…eady in a position of risk and precarity with respect to the law. What is incumbent on religious protesters today is not just to fill up the jails, but to multiply. The Berrigans created their audience by being paid attention. And this is what religious protesters are doing brilliantly today: in protests, online, in their communities, even in their classrooms. The strategies are many, but the goals can only be achieved if attention increases. If m…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…most expensive. The insertion of an IUD costs about $1,000, and it’s no coincidence that the use of these methods has increased steadily since the contraceptive mandate was put in effect. According to the Guttmacher Institute, LARC use increased from 9% of women in 2009 to 12% in 2012, after the mandate went into effect. Increases in LARC use were especially notable among Hispanic women and women with no children, who tend to be younger women. SB:…

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

By Jonathan Malesic

…dentity.” Reviewers found the argument clever and provocative but largely unconvincing, because they thought I had misdiagnosed the real dangers to Christian identity. One reviewer argued that ordinary Christians are in fact so reluctant to appear publicly as Christians that the real threat to Christian identity was the exact opposite of what I saw. Reno, whose signature rhetorical move may well be the backhanded endorsement, likewise wrote in a b…

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

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…lammatory rhetoric in the immigration debate does have a correlation with increased violence against Latinos.” Indeed, journalist Roberto Lovato has documented a spike in anti-immigrant violence following the huge marches of April and March 2007 in support of immigration reform. The cases range from increased activity by the Ku Klux Klan to the recent arrest and indictment of six members of the Alabama Free Militia who were preparing to attack Mex…

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

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…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 there separate government…

Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…than condoms they don’t sell birth control (although a “six-pack and emergency contraception special” might cut down on a lot of unplanned pregnancies). Secondly, the Catholic bishops collapse all types of contraception into two “easily” available forms: birth control pills and condoms. Some oral contraceptives are available in generic forms and cost as little as $10 at big-box retailers. But many newer kinds aren’t and cost upwards of $40 month….