Religion Dispatches
…it would be good for people to eat, but of course this is much trickier. One wouldn’t want one’s reform effort to be seen as a social engineering program. At the same time, there’s certainly a low bar that needs to be cleared. If you come up with a new system that can only deliver gummy worms and vegemite to people’s cupboards, that won’t do. You can’t live on gummy worms and vegemite. So although the reformers can’t set out to re-engineer all pe…
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…ng the world’s natural resources to drive around town, and turn on an obscene number of lights. Doesn’t this offend your morality? Or do you truly have no shame? PC: Riz gets to play all kinds of roles. I just play fat Indian guys. In fact, for my part in the Lowe’s ad, I was given food to eat between takes. The Christmas lights in the commercial were all LED, so: you’re welcome, Environment. Can I use plastic bags again now? RM: I was forced to t…
Read More…dicted that 30,000 people would participate in the service, but the actual number appeared to number around 2,000. “Our prayers will open the sky and the homosexuals will fall, we will be blessed with victory,” said Lee Young-hoon, head of the leading organization in the anti-LGBT coalition. Mexico: Supreme Court embraces marriage, Church and some political officials resist As we have been reporting, the marriage equality movement has been movemen…
Read More…dure that, unfortunately, do happen in all areas of medicine because medicine is done by people. And, yes, a small but non-zero number of instances of employees knowingly doing things they shouldn’t—which lots of people already knew about because those incidents have been thoroughly shouted about on the internet. The conspicuously unasked question is: Is there any positive reason to think there’s a bigger problem here that would be helped by mo…
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…Gänswein, Prefect of the Pontifical House and Personal Secretary of Pope Benedict XVI,” complained a conservative Catholic publication. (The site also features denunciations of Francis over Amoris Laetitia, which some conservative Catholics believe is undermining church doctrine on marriage.) Mexico: Documentary on same-sex couple’s struggle to marry; trans women embrace Santa Muerte No Dresscode Required, a Mexican documentary about the first sam…
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…of political and cultural change. There is a need to have a spiritual component connected to these affirmations of the self like #BlackGirlMagic and challenges to white male patriarchy like Black Lives Matter. Given that the exhibit came out in the year of Lemonade, do you feel the deification of black female bodies is having a heightened moment culturally? I’m seeing a number of images come out of the 1991 film Daughters of the Dust. We have to p…
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…Church leader “whose actions embody Catholic teaching.” At a $100-plate dinner to benefit Centro San Juan, Hernandez was feted by the award’s namesake, Archbishop José H. Gomez of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, as well as Archbishop Chaput. In the Archdiocesan newspaper, Denver Catholic Register, Liliana Flores, the Archdiocese’s Hispanic Youth Coordinator breathlessly declared of Hernandez, “I think he could die for Jesus.” This wrinkle in the case…
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…earchers attends this special session. While enjoying pizza the aforementioned panelists respond to anonymous questions by providing more detailed strategies for how to evangelize their friends (and themselves) in the face of questions like gender identity, the separation of church and state, and whether God is good and all-powerful. The panelists hammer home to these young adults that they must always sweetly refuse to acknowledge the validity of…
Read More…e as strong or stronger in their support for active government, the safety net, and generous government service provisions. And the issue of immigration looms large, with Democrats viewed overwhelmingly as the most favorable party to immigrants. In the same Gallup analysis quoted above, Hispanics’ party identification was 53 percent Democratic to 21 percent Republican, a 32 point pro-Democratic gap. The last survey from the authoritative Pew Hispa…
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…ing your faith.” What an idea! And from South Bend, Indiana, some equally unexpected news. The University of Notre Dame recently announced that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address this May, and will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. Unsurprisingly, the announcement was greeted with protests from conservative Catholics who object to Obama’s pro-choice position on abortion and to his recent directive to expand th…
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