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“Soul Freedom” versus “Christian Nation”: Exploring the Legacy of Roger Williams

By Becky Garrison

…like Williams, and the execution of heretics such as Mary Dyer, hanged on Boston Common in 1660. Williams and Cotton carried out a huge literary debate over these issues in a series of books related to these questions. Williams’ begins as noted above from the position that coerced faith—establishmentarian religion—privileged religious voice—is no faith; that there are no chosen nations after Israel, and that persecution of supposed heretics may b…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…s, consider that in 1978, Dr. Carl Ruck, Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, sought to distinguish the religious from the recreational use of psychedelics. Psychedelic drugs became associated with what many perceived as the adolescent rebellion of the 1960s and early ‘70s counterculture. The federal government criminalized the use, possession, sale, and cultivation of these drugs, though many continued to use them both recreationa…

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Can Rage Fuel the Struggle for Justice? A Roundtable

By Religion Dispatches

…Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press. And after a 10–way auction, “The Failures of Forgiveness,” will be released by Princeton University Press in September 2023. Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the soc…

Giving RD The Finger?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…religion coverage, Silk pays closer attention to blogs associated with the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and USA Today. This is all brilliant in its quiet, descriptive way. Silk is especially mindful of the ways in which we are bombarded by news and information from the time we wake to the time we retire. He has structured his response by simply walking us through his day, reminding us that we are always (both actively…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…preme Court in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, a 1995 case in which the court found that “modern public accommodations laws are well within the State’s usual power to enact when a legislature has reason to believe that a given group is a target of discrimination, and they do not, as a general matter, violate the First or Fourteenth Amendments.” Oregon’s own public accommodations law, Avakian went on, encompasses…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…to us as a sounding board, and advice giver. He is great. We are going to Boston on November 5th. There is a local team who are organizing it who are hungry and keen. How do you address concerns that by calling this church, you may be giving people the impression that Sunday Assembly is equipped to provide actual pastoral care? Jones: We have always said that Sunday Assembly is a phased growth into a full church like structure. At Sunday Assembly…

Hillary Clinton Won the Catholic Vote After All, So Dems Should Stay Pro-Choice, Right?

By Patricia Miller

…ggested Trump won the Catholic vote by 52% to 45%. Now, as you may recall, Boston College’s Thomas Groome argued in a recent New York Times opinion piece that Clinton’s loss of the Catholic vote constituted a “watershed” and he counseled the Democratic Party to stop being so abortiony to retake the Catholic vote. So, if Clinton actually won that Catholic vote, does that mean the Dems should double down on their pro-choice position? Of course, Groo…

Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…of 139 schools studied with regard to the availability of contraceptives. Boston College is under scrutiny for hosting a talk on homosexuality and Christianity, then praised for tacking crucifixes back up in classrooms. So it goes, year in and year out with the Newmanites stirring up little tempests on Catholic campuses. They win some, they lose most. One of their favorite targets is Eve Ensler’s popular play, The Vagina Monologues. They actually…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…he refers to are a real grievance. Shea tells me about a Jesuit priest at Boston College who would say to his students “Who is your God? I’ll tell you who your God is. Tell me what you spend most of your time with. That’s your God.” For Father Shea, the Holy Trinity has been replaced in the hearts of students by the secular trinity of shopping, computers and TV. But even Father Shea uses tech in his RCIA class. Damien thinks the use of the videos…

Winners and Losers in the “Visitation” of American Nuns?

By Patricia Miller

…d a central contention of Catholic conservatives: that the drop-off in the number of nuns is due to the modernization of the many orders who left their cloisters and shed their habits to tackle social justice problems in the real world. The report said that “the very large numbers of religious in the 1960s was a relatively short-term phenomenon that was not typical of the experience of religious life through most of the nation’s history.” In seeki…