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Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion

By Mary E. Hunt

…rm the context in which abortions are necessary, the context that needs to change if the number of abortions is to be reduced. This larger context constitutes “gravely moral reasons” why a Catholic could, some might say should, vote for Obama over McCain despite their respective positions on abortion. Theologians and other Catholic scholars have led the way on this approach. Pro-choice Catholic scholars have long argued that one can favor legal ab…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…’ dipped to 79% just six months ago. Second, it’s easy to focus on the big numbers showing that people think Francis is a big change for the better. But that’s self-evident. What I found really interesting is that only a quarter of Catholics say they feel more excited about their faith and that no more are going to church than during Benedict’s papacy. In Gallicho’s words it takes “nerve” to point this out. But these numbers are key because they’r…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…led to quell our nuclear nightmares. In somewhat the same way that climate change denialism functions today, the Atoms for Peace campaign merely divided public opinion, allowing some to sleep easy and the most knowledgeable people even more distraught and fearful. Events like the recent reactor meltdown in Northeastern Japan can bring even the sleepers back to the edge of anxiety, and then there’s the persistent fear that a nut job or a terrorist…

Turning Students into Citizens, Religious Studies Edition

By James Miller

…responsible choices under this unprecedented condition? In short, climate change is a game-changer for the whole of higher education. Laurie Zoloth realizes this, but Ivan Strenski does not. Strenski advocates a model of higher education rooted in the disciplines of the 19th century. In this model the goal of a religion department is principally to train scholars of religion and not to engage in social activism. The same would be true for economi…

God’s Promise to Noah for Climate Change Denialism Cited by Potential Energy Policy Maker

By Lauri Lebo

…tured US Rep. John Shimkus at a congressional hearing arguing that climate change is a myth because God promised Noah after the Great Flood that he would never destroy the earth again. Now that Republicans have taken control of Congress, Shimkus would like to be the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee—which oversees climate and environmental regulation. (Also vying for the position is Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who famously apologized to…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…I would enlarge that statement to say that the values people hold dearest change how they understand their own identity. If academic achievement and the number or type of initials after your name is the most important thing in the world to you, then it will change how you view your own masculinity and femininity. Similarly, if having children matters most to you, then you can only be truly “manly” or “feminine” if you have kids. Is there anything…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…this is not an original thought, St. Paul had this thought—people want to change and people don’t want to change. People profoundly want to be made new, and people profoundly want to be clothed in Christ, to be born again. And they profoundly want to cling to everything old—about the world, and about themselves. The thing is, that church, as it’s set up, is not usually a way to change; it’s a way to cling to the way things are. I just read an art…

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…critical difference at a time when nobody believed that things would ever change. This can happen again if a sufficient number of people in the churches and in the unions wake up. The good news is that people are indeed waking up, often in places where we least expect it, including within the large evangelical churches and their networks throughout the South and Southwest. That is partly why holding our event in Houston is so promising. You co-au…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…so gives them the paradoxically reassuring feeling that they are resisting change—even when change is desperately needed to improve the well-being of the entire society. Liberals, on the other hand, have a more open-ended worldview and are thus more accepting of change—not just for themselves but for the whole society. Which brings us to the most glaring flaw in Haidt’s basic “Moral Foundations Theory.” It glibly assumes that liberals are so con…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…t this is a process run by media people with little thought to how it will change anything. Perhaps that’s because it’s not meant to change anything foundational. Color me skeptical, but language like “journeying companions,” “co-responsible in mission,” and “common obedience to the Spirit” bear little resemblance to reality. Such spiritualized, stylized, not to say slippery, phrases make for wonderful copy. But they bear no resemblance to a churc…