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Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?

By Patricia Miller

…nent facts about the employers’ health plan, such as who their insurer is, contact information for the insurer and what type of plan it is. Ave Maria sent HHS a letter stating its intent to opt-out of the mandate by the November 1 deadline, but refused to name its insurer or provide any other details, which could have made it liable for up to $17 million in penalties without the injunction, which is the first to specifically block the revised acco…

Smashing Our Idols: A Response from Evangelical Leader David Gushee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…right rejects gays and lesbians. A commenter on that post encouraged me to contact Gushee and ask if his opinion had changed. I contacted Gushee who was gracious enough to respond and offer his thoughts. He was also kind enough to give me permission to share some of his email in this essay. My starting point is an evangelical Christian identity and 15 years in leadership in the evangelical community. That community begins with a very high view of…

Shopping for Your Kids, Bioethically Speaking

By Arri Eisen

…ons in the first paragraph: go to a Web site that deals in eggs and sperm, contact the brokers therein, pay for the ‘best’ eggs and sperm you can afford from the best sources (‘best’ as determined by things like the jobs and grades of those whose sperm and eggs you are ‘using’), find a fertility clinic, pay the clinic to mix the eggs and sperm and put the resulting fertilized eggs into a surrogate mom (found, for example, at the Center for Surroga…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…there; and even after they had been removed. It was not the custom at the musallah, small prayer space, closest to my house for women to sit on a chair. Those with less ability to stand and proceed through the different postures would perform the prayer from the sitting position on the prayer rug. I was not able to do that, as bowing forward was impossible. So I missed most of tarawih last Ramadan as the accident happened after the first week. Eve…

Religious Freedom is Impossible… Compared to What?

By Austin Dacey

…r” as an “eminently malleable category that can be deployed to advance any number of competing ends.” Perhaps when she claims that the category of religion has reached the end of its useful life, Sullivan is not suggesting that it serves no one’s purposes, but rather that it serves no defensible purposes. Perhaps hers is fundamentally a moral case, a case about the injustice of protecting “religious freedom.” Then the claim would not be that such…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…he says, pointing out that many such people are still sheltering away from contact with the wider world. The idea “also frames disabled parishioners as the objects of charity rather than allowing us to attend church on our own terms,” says Knego. Indeed, there are ecclesiological problems in how Warren’s argument is framed, which is to say, problems in how that argument understands the nature and purpose of the church. “Our worship is centered not…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…e. We need source material drawn from our cultural world that reflects our contact with the world. BRAXTON: A “grammar of compassion”—that’s a beautiful phrase. The world surely needs more compassion. I won’t begrudge people about whether their motivation for compassionate problem-solving arises from religious or secular sources. We just need to address these public problems. When teaching in divinity schools and seminaries, I remind students that…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…x, who had just begun to play tackle football. The transition from the non-contact realm of flag-football to the padded variety seemed to have instilled in Max an urgency to initiate hits. Pastor Young asked, “What do you think about when you see guys on the other team, if they are really big? What goes through your mind?” “I want to pancake them,” Max proclaimed gleefully. “Or they’ll pancake me and smack me down like a sack of potatoes,” a decla…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…severe flooding” and gave a list of shelters that would be open along with contact and location information. By Sunday evening the first round of tweets were swirling, asking why Lakewood wasn’t open as a shelter. And a subsequent video showing flowing and standing water in an underground garage of what was presumed to be Lakewood began circulating—as if to suggest that Lakewood was flooded and therefore not a place for shelter. It seemed as thoug…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…GBT rights is a new conversation, something that’s only recently come into contact with modern Islamic thought, but trust us, it’s not. Challenging the status quo for the betterment of society is one of the very foundations on which Islam was built. No one is asking you to change your beliefs. If you feel your faith tells you that homosexuality is haram, fine. We disagree with your interpretation, but you’re entitled to it. Ain’t America grand? Bu…