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How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. Her book, Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America, published this spring by Oxford University Press, provides the first full-length analysis of CWA rhetoric. Smith situates CWA within a long tradition of American political discourse concerning sex and gender, explaining how the group’s public arguments are calibrated…

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

…e diocese of Newark despite calls for his removal. A group of Catholics in Kansas City, MO, is pressing the Vatican to remove Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge in 2011 of failing to report suspected abuse after he found pornographic images of a child on a priest’s computer. Monseigneur William Lynn, who was in charge of priests’ assignments and investigating abuse for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2004, w…

“A Most Ungodly Way to View Religious Freedom”

By Sarah Posner

…o view religious freedom:” Arizona is not alone. Even though it looks like Kansas’ controversial HB 2453 won’t make it through the state senate, it’s possible the bill’s supporters will recraft it with different language and try again. Other states are attempting similar maneuvers. These efforts have met with vociferous opposition, but given that their supporters are backed by national groups like the Ethics and Public Policy Center and powerful s…

The Woody Allen Problem: How Do We Read Pacifist Theologian (and Sexual Abuser) John Howard Yoder?

By Stephanie Krehbiel

…Aaliyah, who was 14, and making an album he named Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number — I had Aaliyah’s mother cry on my shoulder and say her daughter’s life was ruined, Aaliyah’s life was never the same after that. That’s not an experience you’ve had. I’m not expecting you to feel the same way I do. But you can look at this body of evidence. “You” meaning everybody who cares. What changes if we care? What changes if we make respect for the humanity o…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…it ignores the context in which self and other interact; it values reciprocity over self-preservation and, potentially, justice; and it offers a general moral principle without defining normative moral action. Christian thinkers, in turn, have robustly argued that the wider Gospel context of the Golden Rule grounds its interpretation in a self-giving love of neighbor exemplified by Jesus Christ. Still, “Good Samaritan Nones” up the ethical ante….

McCullen v. Coakley and the Meaning of Protests

By Sarah Posner

…intimidation disappear. During the so-called Summer of Mercy in Witchita, Kansas, in 1991, news coverage described Operation Rescue protesters “flinging themselves under cars, sitting by the hundreds at clinic doorways and blocking women from entering as they read them Scripture.” But 18 years later, during the supposed professionalization period, Dr. George Tiller was assassinated in that same city. And a subsequent investigation by journalist A…

Capitalism and Christianity

By Peter Montgomery

…nt thing in their lives. This is an answer to the “what’s the matter with Kansas?” question. Many evangelicals and religious conservatives don’t agree with right-wing economic policies, but those concerns are trumped by social issues which they are more likely to see in religious terms. Columnist E.J. Dionne, co-author of a report on the survey, noted that this finding demonstrates the bind facing Republicans who want to broaden the party’s elect…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…s-à-vis all of the draconian legislation that’s come down from states like Kansas, North Dakota, Texas and Mississippi. The fact that abortion and birth control policies continue to be hijacked by the extreme right is an atrocity, as is the destructive whitewash of the devastating impact of climate change. I believe that legal abortion and universal access to contraception are human rights—period. Women of color have the most to lose from the incr…

Original Spin: Progressives Dismiss Conservative Theology at Their Peril

By Ira Chernus

…mself to be neither Niebuhrian nor Anabaptist. He believed that the whole “city of man” and all its inhabitants could achieve self-restraint by proper exercise of their free will. This was the great role of religion, he said—every religion taught the same essential message: the human capacity and vital need to choose self-restraint. It was equally the role of political leaders to encourage and point the way to virtuous free choice; and, to make su…

To Pray or Not to Pray

By Sarah Posner

…’s effort also includes staffers from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, a 24-7 prayer project of Lou Engle and others. The inspiration for the event is a “solemn assembly” of “prayer and fasting” for which the organizers cite Joel 2:12, the basis for many of Engle’s events, aimed at combatting “Antichrist legislation,” among other things. Perry knows his base, even if he’s out of step with the rest of the country. Herman Cain, thou…