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Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…e Common Good, favors making abortion illegal, and only views reducing the number of abortions as an interim step toward that goal. It is hard to take seriously a movement that thinks they can dramatically reduce the number of abortions while largely ignoring or denying the issue of access to contraception—including emergency contraception. One understands that they feel their hands are tied by the official position of the Catholic church against…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…priests and nuns carried out most of Church ministry. Since then, as their numbers declined, lay men and women in great numbers have committed themselves to work alongside priests and nuns. This partnership is essential for the Church’s mission to thrive. The Jesuit School of Theology is preparing ministerial leaders—Jesuit, religious, and lay—to work together as partners for tomorrow’s Church.” No Hierarchy of Abuse There’s a critical disconnect…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…t to rebuild and reinvigorate a wounded movement, leading to the US Postal Service and direct-mail companies experiencing a surge in business as urgent fundraising appeals pepper the mailboxes and inboxes of religious right supporters. At its worst—as was done during the Clinton Administration—forums will be convened to discuss whether the Obama presidency is legitimate. An Obama presidency will force the religious right to rethink its strategy an…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…rific details. Rev. Eberhard Hitzler, Director of the Department for World Service, the humanitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland provided RD with a brief, reporting that there has been “serious aerial bombardment” by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) inside Kadugli town, and that “SAF is distributing guns to non Nuba tribes (Arabs) in the town.” “Nuba people are being arrested from every point now,” he…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…late 1980s, federal officials sought to identify homosexuals in the public service and military who were seen as untrustworthy and at risk of blackmail by foreign powers. Those targeted were subject to interrogation, harassment and dismissal. Many quit rather than submit themselves, friends and family to such harassment. In 1989, Michelle Douglas was discharged from the military for being, as the regulation put it, “not advantageously employable d…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…porary Jewish Studies in America—perhaps even its very purpose—has been in service to the survival of the Jews, as Greenberg and Jick articulated in 1970. Kletenik and Neis claim that the more sociological expression of this “Jewishness,” predicated on the dilemma of the disappearing Jew and quantifying its solution, has pushed that project into new precarious waters. In this scenario, Jewish survivalism becomes the defining context of even academ…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT equality were central to every conversation, presentation and worship service. Sixty participants from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Philippines, Jamaica, Angola, Togo, Sweden, Germany, England and the United States attended the conference. Religious conservatives in the US and abroad have labeled American efforts to promote LGBT human rights overseas as imperialism. But activists at a conference coinciding w…

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

By Frederick Clarkson

…care to LGBTQ people; to even indirect participation in providing abortion services. In addition to enlisting the Founding Fathers, as noted earlier, the Charter attempts to enlist long deceased religious leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in support of their redefining of religious freedom: “… acts of conscience in the public life of our nation have energized and guided many of our most important movements for social justice, preeminently the w…

The Death of a Secularist

By Austin Dacey

Not long ago I spoke at the memorial service for my friend Herbert Crimes. An ardent Afrocentrist, he went by the name of Sibanye, which means “together as one” in Swahili. The many colors visible among the large audience at his secular service—held in a rented hall in the Adam Clayton Powell state office building in Harlem where Sibanye used to preside over a monthly humanist community group meeting—testified to the pluralism of his personal lif…

Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…d in Washington, D.C.’s historic Metropolitan AME Church for a Watch Night service led by the Rev. William Barber, other clergy, and activists. He and his colleagues are calling for a new Poor People’s Campaign, 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King announced plans for the original. Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP and its Moral Mondays movement, has become a focal point for those who hope that a prophetic religious vision can inspire a re…