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NOM Claims Victimhood for the Holidays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the lawn, shovel the snow, coach hockey, burn the turkey. They’ll help you sell your home, check your x-ray, serve your coffee at the local cafe, and remember your name (and whether you like cream and one sugar). They teach your kids, get you out of jail if you need a lawyer, help you survive cancer or a heart attack, and provide your hospice care—whispering loving things in your ear and helping you cross the divide. Most of us just want someone t…

Papal Profanity: The Vatican’s Pagan Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Latin no less) that “these are nothing but pagan idols!” He threatened to sell off the whole collection, and in the interim built cabinets for them, locked the doors, and kept the key to himself. He died within the year. The novelty of the Profane Museum, then, had a lot to do with its publicity. The Profane Museum was a room full of pagan antiquities curated by the founder of modern Art History as we know it, a Catholic convert from Saxony named…

God or Gay, No Need to Choose Sides

By Jay Michaelson

…and fear in the context of airport security, and a couple of follow-ups to God vs. Gay. Then again, I might just try to sell my novel….

There Oughta be a Law…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…] Okay. A state senator in my state has filed a bill to make it illegal to sell food or products that contain aborted fetuses. Is this about vaccines? Is this a backdoor attempt at setting a legal precedent that will later outlaw abortion? I have no idea. Nor, apparently, does State Senator Ralph Shortey: “I don’t know if it is happening in Oklahoma, it may be, it may not be. What I am saying is that if it does happen then we are not going to allo…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…ou (that God says) to wait. It is, in many ways, analogous to their softer-sell approach to evangelizing: Jesus loves you, and Jesus died for you, but we’re not going to hit you over the head with it. Then there are the Youngs and the Driscolls, pastors of megachurches, always looking outside their home churches, away from their cities, for attention. And they’re definitely doing something right. Both Sexperiment and Real Marriage became New York…

Contraception Furor v. Catholic Realities

By Mary E. Hunt

…olic situation, and anyone who tries to persuade otherwise has a bridge to sell in Brooklyn. Nonetheless, the current flap over health care reveals three Catholic realities: it is about birth control, it is not about religious liberty, and it is not over. Why Would Anyone in 2012 Resist Birth Control? Efforts to say that the controversy is not about birth control are fruitless and foolish. No one is arguing about flu shots. This is about women’s r…

Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…. In the last few months, four of Anusara’s most senior teachers—Christina Sell, Darren Rhodes, Elena Brower, and Amy Ippoliti—resigned one by one, citing “professional differences.” On February 12, two additional senior teachers, Noah Maze and Bernadette Birney, resigned, and Maze stepped down from his position on an interim committee established by Friend to ensure Anusara’s survival from the onslaught of the scandals. On her website, Birney add…

Mitt Learns to Say “Y’all” as Primary Heads South

By Joanna Brooks

…a wonky Yankee Mormon with a moderate past, Romney has always been a tough sell in the South. But how much of this has to do with his Mormonism? For context, I spoke with Patrick Mason, chair of the Mormon Studies program at Claremont Graduate University, and author of The Mormon Menace: Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South (2011). Tell me about the history of Mormonism in the American South. Mormon missionaries went to the South within a couple…

Lou Engle’s Bizarro Esther

By Katie Toth

…hat’s touted as biblical. And if you’re part of that culture, you can even sell it as empowering: As Kathryn Joyce has noted in Quiverfull, submission to male authority is presented to young Christian women as the ideal method of finding influence in their communities. “There’s going to be a huge cry, releasing pain, but we also believe it’s going to release power for reformation and change in America,” Engle says in a video. “And there’s one stor…

Secret Sequel: New Age “Mind Cure” Misses the Point

By Mark Vernon

…James called them more than a century ago? (Books like The Power were bestsellers in Victorian times too.) He reasoned that they succeed ‘in ignoring evil’s very existence.’ Evil is a big thing to ignore, so I have to say that I agree with him. It points to something flawed in the human condition. We have what James called ‘sick souls.’ Do we not do what we wouldn’t do, and don’t do what we would do, as Saint Paul observed? James opposed mind-cur…