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Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…tion activist who was alleged to have been the author the Army of God handbook, had enlisted in the American military but was not able to complete his training. The Christian anti-abortion war gave him his own battlefield. McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was a frustrated former American soldier who had served in the Gulf War, and who was reported to be disconsolate and lost when the war was over. His life was given renewed meaning in discoverin…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…ican smokestack, it’s safe to say the face that emerges from the fog will soon also grace the cover of Time. Just under the wire for Holy Week, the traditional season of religiously-themed magazine covers, the new pontiff is sure to be seen in a gleaming soutane, his arms outstretched, suitable for framing within the red border that once announced a moment the world would stop to notice. In their former ubiquity, their former authority, the former…

Scalia’s (Not Very Catholic, Right Wing) Originalism

By Patricia Miller

…calia was a devout Catholic is clear. He was a product of a Jesuit high school and university. He (along with fellow Court conservative Clarence Thomas) attended St. Catherine of Siena in the tony suburbs of Virginia, with its high Latin Mass and rumblings of Opus Dei. The only child of an Italian immigrant father and a second-generation Italian mother, he and his wife had nine children after playing what he himself called “Vatican Roulette.” But…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…tican as canon law for U.S. dioceses). The Charter called for dioceses to cooperate with civil authorities and comply with reporting laws, to permanently remove abuser-priests from ministry, and to establish majority-lay review boards to look at allegations against clergy and advise bishops whether to suspend the accused. The bishops also required priests, deacons, diocesan employees, volunteers, and children in education programs to undergo “safe…

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…ople think that these households work because of a shared love of Chinese food (on Christmas or otherwise), which we know is true, but is only a tiny part of what makes these families work. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Thinking through this question in detail before we started on the manuscript really helped us make key decisions about our writing style and voice. As faculty and staff at a wonderful small liberal arts col…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…y. (The question around what extent Congress should be legislating our bedroom behavior is another beast entirely.) This new, mutant form of “religious liberty” does indeed deserve scare quotes. When Mississippi lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a law that determined what kind of intimate relationships are worthy of protection, they also lost the ability to claim that they were seeking to protect faith-based views broadly speaking. Laws like this ha…

Op-Ed: God is Green

By Ayesha Mattu

…nd non-governmental organizations in the global South reviving these deep-rooted green practices in a manner informed both by modern realities and Islamic principles. For example in the United States, the Chicago-based Taqwa Eco-Core Cooperative provides sustainable, family-farm raised, and organic halal meat to comply with Islamic dietary rules while bringing the religious rulings for humane and respectful treatment of animals and the environment…

A Response to Religion and Science: Toward a Postmodern Truce

By Robert B. Tapp

…case. As the Unitarians and Universalists were merging in 1960, I had the good fortune to chair a study commission on Theology and the Frontiers of Knowledge. Four years later, Ralph Burhoe and I went to Meadville/Lombard seminary at the University of Chicago to create a new curriculum based on the sciences. We were the founding co-editors of Zygon, Journal of Religion and Science. My published position at that time was Science is the way we know…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…cently “scholars have abandoned the term Celtic Church believing it to be too closely associated with inaccurate ideas.” However, as her study makes clear, the general public is in no way allergic to this constructed history given that a “quick search of the internet produces an abundance of links to Celtic spirituality seminars, sites detailing the ‘history’ of the Celtic Church and Celtic Christian denominations.” Among many in the general publi…

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…ebate. Chalk it up to retrograde TMS (Testosterone Madness Syndrome), the root cause of most Internet flame wars. There is unfinished business on this topic for the religious left, however, and it needs to be explored before we reach out to find common ground with opponents of abortion. The debate on the religious left needs to be shifted to focus on simple strategic questions: What will move our society toward increased social and economic justic…