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Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…rn about the environment, having signed on to the free-market, libertarian policies of the Republican Party. As Robert Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute recently told Sister Maureen Fiedler on NPR’s “Interfaith Voices”: [An] anthropologist might conclude that there are two Catholic Churches on the ground: there’s one catholic church that is concentrated in the Northeast, tends to be white, tends to be older, tends to support Rep…

Christian Pol, Attacked for Opposing ‘In God We Trust’ in School, Talks Church and State

By Frederick Clarkson

…. But as a public official, I am accountable to the people I serve for the policies I support and the positions that I take. I am on the ballot, not my religion. Fifteen years ago, I wrote and spoke about my support for gay marriage coming from my religious faith, not despite it. This was in response to people asserting that because their religious beliefs held that same-sex marriage was evil and sinful, the Minnesota Constitution should be amende…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…es,” enormous collections of bad debt, or worse still, imaginary insurance policies, simply because the person selling them has called them “securities.” This crisis is ironically not psychological at all, though much of the pain is. No, this crisis in empirical, a simple matter of numbers (and words) not adding up. And the reason they don’t? Because people, really bad people, lied about them, cooked the books, sold this nonsense to their friends,…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ory. In many communities, delegates are selected, leaders are elected, and policies are voted on in assemblies of the whole. Associates or co-members frequently have voice if not vote and are welcomed as valued participants. All of this makes Rome nervous as the women prove that we can act maturely, inclusively, and democratically and still be Catholic. I conclude from this behavior that it is a good thing that the sisters are not clerics and it w…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…rethink their tenure calendars. And each school needs to work on its leave policies, both maternal leave and parental leave. Some of the problem is not just institutional but cultural, especially around household labor. Researchers at Berkeley tracked the effects of childbearing on women in academia, and their study shows that women with children are the least likely of all people to get tenure—while men with children and wives do better than anyo…

There’s Something Rotten in Ireland

By Haroon Moghul

…on both sides try to pitch it that way, and considering the territory that is right now fought over, it’s not surprising religion plays that role and is made a justification for actions and policies and aspirations. It’s just surprising when the most basic elements of religious belief are so gravely misunderstood, or so deliberately flouted. …

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…h, American Muslim houses of worship and organizations have worked against policies that visibly target Muslims such as profiling, denial of First Amendment rights and harassment by law enforcement. In doing so, these institutions work to gain public recognition, inclusion and representation, as well as the ability to help shape public policy. This narrow focus on “Muslim issues” has indeed helped drum up support from a range of allies pledging to…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…ce forces, the prison-industrial complex, the violence of certain economic policies, and other ways that “our perception of ‘safety’ is enhanced through the dehumanization of ‘enemies’—cowboys being ‘safe’ from Indians; streets being ‘safe’ from (black and brown) criminals; democracies being ‘safe’ from terrorists, and so on.” Buddhist Americans have only really scratched the surface of exploring, let alone responding to these issues—this is where…

Does Church Temper Trump Voters’ Views on Race? New Report Whitewashes Conservative Christian Problem

By Timothy Gloege

…osite: all racial groups had equal capacities, but discriminatory laws and policies caused disparities. Both of these groups are well known. They dominate our binary narratives of racial oppression. Almost everyone sees themselves as anti-racists. But Kendi crucially highlights a third position, assimilationist, that’s typically overlooked. Assimilationists presumed the superiority of whiteness, but blamed environmental causes for racial inferiori…

Will Romney’s VP Pick Win Catholic Voters?

By Joanna Brooks

…rsing the kind of deep cuts in social programs—all without any replacement policies—that assist the poor and the vulnerable…” Will Catholic voters stand by the moral budget? Will Ryan and Romney be able to recast “getting the nation’s fiscal house in order” using the Medicare-cutting Ryan budget as an equally if not more compelling moral priority? Or is the Ryan pick and the “big issue” moral framework that comes with it just ideological window dr…