Religion Dispatches
…es and a faint family portrait on the wireframe shelf, and something that will be familiar to anyone with a newborn child: a rocking seat next to a pink and yellow baby mat. With the caption “A Home Revealed,” the audience is left to make sense of these household portraits that are almost boring in their everydayness (except perhaps for the wall-hanging written in Arabic). In the right column is a headshot of Tashfeen Malik in a light peach hijab….
Read More…istmas will be shared. I think Southern Baptists would be better served by following the one who humbled himself than by joining Bill O’Reilly’s Christmas crusade….
Read More…r thing to… do whatever Rep. Kelly thinks he’s doing. I give up. Here, have a video about Basenjis freaking out when a phone rings:…
Read More…ing the treatment until after she gave birth. She delivered her daughter, Lilliana, on April 4th of this year, and two months later, on June 4th she died. Within hours, reactionary Polish President Lech Kaczynski attempted to posthumously bestow one of Poland’s highest honors, the order of Polonia Restituta, on Mroz through her widowed husband, though the husband declined, saying he didn’t want to politicize her death, and that the medal should in…
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…tion as a violation of church law and a significant step toward a split, while others will consider it a milestone toward being a more inclusive church. “Our differences are real and cannot be glossed over, but they are also reconcilable,” Ough said. “We are confident God is with us, especially in uncharted times and places.” Conservatives were not happy with the move: “’If the Western Jurisdiction wanted to push the church to the brink of schism,…
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…as always been attacking drug supply, but if you really want to have an impact on people whose lives are getting ruined by drugs, you have to understand drug demand, not supply, and that’s the brain of the addict. There are [other] issues about juveniles and how you punish juveniles—their brains are really plastic. I think that it’s actually very important to leverage what we know in neuroscience to crafting social policy that’s more aligned with…
Read More…onal figures including Rev. Al Sharpton. Also speaking was Rev. Christine Wiley of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ in Washington DC; Wiley was a co-chair of DC Clergy United for Marriage Equality, which played a visible role during the successful legislative campaign for marriage equality in DC. Speakers at Friday’s press conference focused on the distinction between civil and religious marriage. Said Rev. Deman Coates, senior pastor of…
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…t object to Keller being given a platform to speak on campus—which Keller will still be doing on April 6. “We spent a lot of time making our argument precise, and we never said we didn’t want dialogue or we didn’t want him here. We said we were extremely concerned with what awarding Keller $10,000 communicates about the values of this institution. At no point has this been about policing free speech. I feel many outlets didn’t do due diligence and…
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…s to the best theological insights of the times. I remember the late John Giles Milhaven (a former Jesuit priest and theologian who served on the Catholics for Choice board) describing some days in 1970 he spent at the Kennedy compound discussing abortion with members of the family. The theologians at the meeting included Joseph Fuchs, who had served on the Papal Commission on Birth Control and chaired the committee’s majority report; Richard McCo…
Read More…far between. The New York Times builds its whole story out of a handful of phone calls and an email. But the article indicates that those who run the various nonprofits that help soldiers achieve conscientious objector status expect a floodgate of calls if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is formally repealed. The good news is that the groups don’t think there is legal basis for the claims. In the “don’t ask, don’t tell” cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there…
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