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Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…umber of marriages within the church has declined by nearly half. Only the number of Catholic funerals has held steady. And while the number of Catholics overall has remained level, that’s largely due to Hispanic migration to the US; some 40 percent of those born Catholic have left the church. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. The church Francis will encounter is fundamentally different in character from the church of John Paul in two import…

The ObamaCare “Abortion Fee” Hoax

By Patricia Miller

…rer from disclosing to individuals seeking to enroll in a health insurance plan whether a plan covers elective abortions.” Guttmacher has refuted this contention as well, although it has noted, as have reproductive health advocates, that it can be difficult for potential enrollees to determine if a plan covers abortion services, not because of attempts at obfuscation but because of a lack of clarity in the regulations about how information about a…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…all year, gathering costumes and camp decorations, assembling sculptures, planning meals with groups of friends, and scheduling shifts as lamplighters or temple guardians. These are not desert fathers or renunciants seeking a wilderness away from civilization in which they suffer and travail to prove their faith. Burners revel in the pleasures of the world. They bring civilization with them and seek transformation in the midst of a wild and vibra…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…items within their borders (as is already the case federally with lottery tickets). A Republican-controlled Congress could then impose a nationwide ban on the mailing of abortion pills or certain contraceptives. (Republican-controlled state legislatures have already demonstrated a willingness to enact questionable legislation for nothing more than its intimidation factor.) Which brings us back to Anthony Comstock. In 1878, the Supreme Court uphel…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation offered for the panic was that the cheering of Olympics fans for Usain Bolt’s performance in the 100 meters sounded like gunfire. In an episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” from the The Twilight Zone‘s first season, aliens discover that they can conquer Earth most easily by using flickering lights to infuse paranoia and fear in its human inhabita…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…ughter Bella was hospitalized.) Organizers said they had distributed 1,800 tickets, and the pews in the church were nearly full, with several hundred, if not nearly a thousand people in attendance. Gingrich was the only candidate to appear; Staver, the “forum’s” moderator took pains to point out that they had invited the other candidates. Santorum and Ron Paul had commitments outside of Florida. Mitt Romney, the candidate Staver and other leaders…

The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan

By Rob Goodman

…utly in the predictive power of dreams. A rich man can spend time with any number of prophets who happily owned nothing. A devoted father can spend time with a man who said, “If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” Entering into those lives does not mean endorsing them or turning our backs on our own. But how can we ev…

Florida Gov’s Plan Would Aid those who Seek Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…chools that are not providing good education, and the economics of Scott’s plan. Opponents are concerned about what the plan will do to the financial well-being of public education, and proponents argue that it will save taxpayer money in that students using vouchers outside the public system will not require infrastructure support from the state, enabling the property tax reductions Scott has promised. In a survey of the media responses to the pr…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…h Yishuv leaders it was clear that while there may have been sympathy with Plan A, only Plan B would receive the support of even the angriest of Palestine’s Jewish community. Plan B’s support came from leadership of the Haganah, the fighting force that would eventually lead the 1948 war. The Yishuv, itself working to unify Palestine’s Jewish leadership, was wary of Nakam’s independence. Porat doesn’t underplay the importance of Kovner and Nakam’s…