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2012 Presidential Hopefuls: God Game is On

By Sarah Posner

…Bachmann, Tea Party religious right heroine, wants to run for president. That would mean that, despite some talk from Mitch Daniels about a “truce” in the “culture wars,” that the Republican presidential primary field will be crowded with candidates who want to talk about God, the Christian nation, the divinity of the Constitution, and “Judeo-Christian values.” The field will be heavy with hardcore culture warriors: aside from Bachmann, Sarah Pal…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ne powerfully for those of us who have experienced marginalization, had to code switch from setting to setting, or learned to express ourselves through subtle cues beyond formal language. While it’s not a huge surprise that some of Ginsburg’s collars will rest in museums—like holy relics, the objects touched by our heroes often end up behind glass, visited by modern pilgrims—it’s also unusual for such a textile to endure for generations. Fabric an…

Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

By Mark D. Jordan

…be penile-vaginal intercourse, male on top, for the sake of procreation. Whatever Thomas meant, churches that cited him used “sodomy” to make accusations that were both vague and damaging—and often more damaging because so vague. Would the acts described by Teen Vogue count as “sodomy”? For some Christian theologians yes, for others no. Of course, the whole point of using the term is to avoid specifying sexual acts. Whether now or in the Middle A…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…orty-five minutes on the agenda of their November 2021 meeting to discuss what’s promoted as the most life-changing process for the Catholic community worldwide since Vatican II. There is a deep disconnect here between rhetoric and reality. Many bishops, especially the most conservative, are simply ignoring or, it is rumored, dissing the whole thing, perhaps considering it more of Francis’ folly. Others are mounting middling efforts. Still others…

Why White Women Are Leading Defenders of Kavanaugh

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…and benefit from a culture of normalized sexual violence, it’s a message that you are being watched and held accountable. And to all the white women who have jumped on the character witness bandwagon to valorize Kavanaugh it should be a reminder that simply being assigned female at birth doesn’t exempt you from complicity with patriarchy and the silencing of sexual violence survivors. While the death threats Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey For…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…me that Jewish homosexuals today are far less emotionally stressed by the code that ruled out the possibility of being both Jewish and gay. Even among some Orthodox Jewish communities the issue is being addressed—though not yet resolved. I love your notion of “layered ethnographies”—in which you add to prior ethnographies rather than amend them. So, the ethnography of CBST includes the first and second editions of your book as well as subsequent…

A Jew in Church? No Big Deal

By Benjamin Weiner

…back, possible. It is only a mildly insightful book, interesting more for what it means than what it says. In the throes of a prolonged spiritual torpor, Cohen, an Orthodox Jew in his mid-thirties, proposes (to his literary agent, apparently) to spend a year visiting 52 churches, one for every Sunday. The result is a prime example of the mushrooming genre of stunt writing (like A.J. Jacobs’ The Year of Living Biblically) in which a contrivance of…

Christianity and Condoms

By John Blevins

…of HIV might be slowed.” In these arguments, the rhetoric does not imply that condoms are things that Christians ourselves might use but are things that Christians could permit others to use to lessen the spread of HIV. The problem with limiting Christian speech to this claim is at least two-fold: 1) it assumes that Christians ourselves do not use condoms to limit the spread of HIV, and 2) it reinforces the assumption that people who do use condo…

Knighting Viktor Orbán for ‘Defending Christianity,’ Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Demonstrates That ‘Culture War’ is the Only Theology That Matters to the Global Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…stendom—but the recognition of a Hungarian Protestant like Orbán suggests that even that old division is slipping away. Increasingly it’s clear that the real, and perhaps singular, fault line running through the world is between those committed to a liberal, pluralist future and those who seek an illiberal world in which Enlightenment ideas of personal liberty and autonomy are soundly defeated. In many historically and cultural Christian countries…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…trality, or the role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality.” Cameron also lays bare his quintessentially 21st century religiosity, proclaiming that “I am a member of the Church of England, and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more diff…