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The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

By Chrissy Stroop

…dited.” And while he did earn a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1966, Cameron was expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1983, and his work has also been condemned by the American Sociological Association—which has publicly declared that he cannot be considered a sociologist and that his work has no relation to legitimate social science—and by other academic bodies. With respect to religious right p…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…divine, transcendent, that which lies beyond this physical realm. Authenticity is one of the most deeply felt needs of our time, particularly among Gen X and Millennials. Authenticity, as Robert W. Terry, the late director of the Reflective Leadership Center at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, described it, is: “ubiquitous, calling us to be true to ourselves and true to the world, real in ourselves and real…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…ll before viability. Thankfully, the woman was able to afford and plan the trip. If the fear of violating an internal hospital policy can cause doctors to withhold medical care from their patients, the fear of criminal prosecution will have a far more disastrous effect. After Roe, a physician’s medical intervention that’s intended to treat their pregnant patient, but is later deemed unnecessary or premature by a court, could subject the doctor not…

Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…ants was self-serving. Then-Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, accused the pope of “faith-based marketing,” according to the New York Times: Mr. Tancredo said Benedict’s comments welcoming immigrants ‘may have less to do with spreading the Gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the Church.’ NPR‘s recent story on immigrant Catholics shared a similar perspective, minus the venom. The U.S. Catholic Church, the story…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…incorrect, it’s that it’s often the exact opposite of the reality on the ground. To put it another way: there aren’t too many gender-affirming surgeries taking place, there are too few, given the number who don’t have access or the means to make it happen. There’s an epidemic of gatekeeping trans-related care in the United States, not to mention insurmountable financial barriers. But we don’t mention these issues, do we? I have a young daughter a…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…d as a rock concert! And here’s James J., an instructor at studios in and around New York City: Since starting his journey at Soul, James has discovered what can be done together—as a family—with the lights down low, the music up high, and our hearts wide open. Many riders seem to buy in. From a customer’s Soul Story on the SoulCycle blog: When I moved to Boston after graduation, I was ecstatic that there was a SoulCycle. My first ride at Chestnut…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…cient myths, says Eliade, share in presenting the archetype of a celestial city or territory or altar as the center of the world. Thus, when humans establish new places, they establish an omphalos, a center around which to organize themselves (and keep others de-centered). In doing so, they mirror sacred reality and thus transform chaos into cosmos. Curiously, modern American city centers eschew the car, preserving it for pedestrians and public tr…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…or women who had procured abortions: they would have to sit neck-deep in a lake of “discharge and stench,” while their crying aborted fetuses would zap rays of fire into their eyes. Partly this had to do with a general proscription against Christians taking any human life. Too, there was the desire to portray the nascent Christian community as more moral than its pagan and Jewish surroundings; and, perhaps, they wanted to lay to rest the whisperin…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tnam veteran in a wheelchair (I later learned his amputations came after a round of neglected diabetes, not enemy bombs). On that first day he asked me if I had ever heard of a religious movement known as “Christian Identity.” I scanned my Wikipedia-like mental database and realized that, yes, I did know that particular sect. “It’s a white supremacist group, if I remember correctly,” I said cautiously. “Well,” he said with a slight smile, “we like…