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The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…eological basis to approve the method. In 1958, when the Pill was already being tested on human populations, Pius XII said its use would be acceptable “as a necessary remedy because of a disease of the uterus or the organism” even if it had the secondary effect of causing sterility. This meant women could use the Pill to treat painful periods or excessive bleeding, which became a popular early theological work-around for Catholic women who wanted…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…lanet where bodies flow into other bodies. Americans consume, in total, around sixty billion pounds of animal flesh each year. A typical American carnivore will go through a literal ton of flesh each decade. Is cannibalism really that much stranger than all of this? Conversations about violence and politics have a way of settling into abstractions. Maybe it’s too uncomfortable to realize that the consequences of ideas can be felt in the flesh. At…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of LGBTI people.” Costa Rica: Report on municipalities making progress on being officially welcoming Roberto Acuña Ávalos at La Voz de Guanacaste writes that the area “timidly raises its own gay pride flag.” The story reviews nondiscrimination declarations that have been made by local municipalities there and in other parts of Costa Rica. A companion story profiles Albert and Keith Toney, an American couple that had been the first to marry in the…

The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

By Daniel Schultz

…mpt to link his opponent to an unpopular president, this line of thinking fundamentally misunderstands how faith functions in our politics. Religious belief and practice in the United States do not exist in an abstract moral system that can be activated by a rehearsal of history. Voters don’t give a damn that Rauschenbusch was a pioneering progressive thinker, or that Niebuhr was highly influential. To be honest, even King’s religious liberalism m…

Jesus Said Punch Up, Not Down: Why William Barber’s Attack on the Religious Right May Not Be What It Seems

By Daniel Schultz

…real Christians. You are not. When liberals appeal to a shared religious identity to guide policy decisions, then, the argument becomes about the faith, not the policy. Jim Wallis has been talking about all the scripture passages concerning the poor for like 40 years, and it hasn’t changed much of anything, because conservatives don’t understand the priorities the same way. It turns out that if you want someone to change a political position, abo…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…s intelligently rebel against the rigidly defined, normalizing ideals that guide dominant understandings of “physical improvement.” This implies that the irregular, unconventional, and/or uncontrollable bodies that are so often seen as shameful are not only shameless, but also potentially prophetic in the challenge they pose to idolatrous definitions of health and healing. How do you feel about the cover? Honestly? I’m not a huge fan of it, but ot…

White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

By Katherine Kelaidis

…g the same apologia I had received before. Instead, I was introduced to dossier of evidence that suggests that the “nationalist problem” is far from contained and presents a serious, ongoing challenge for American Orthodoxy. While the Neo-Nazis and Neo-Confederates may be relatively few in number, there is increasing evidence that Orthodoxy has become an integral part of the ideological and recruitment apparatus within some segments of the white s…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…find spiritual nourishment these days? Recently I realized, wow, I’m not being pastored. I’m not being cared for here. Women in general in my denomination do not receive pastoral care, especially if they’re single. Because of our aversion to female leadership, we don’t have women in places to offer pastoral care. So I have been investing deeply in my friendships with people of color, in particularly other queer people of color who are all over th…

Making College Great Again: Evangelical Outsiders in the Age of Trump

By Adam Laats

…Falwell Jr. and President Trump is beyond cozy. Trump gave his first Presidential commencement address at Liberty and nominated Falwell to head up a task force on higher education. Alumni felt obliged to voice their disgust at the close connection between their Christian school and Trump’s amoral sexual aggression and anti-immigrant ire. Do these protests show a new evangelical outrage at jingoistic, sexist, racially coded appeals to right-wing p…

SCOTUS Decision Changes the Meaning of Civil Religion in America

By Murali Balaji

…ther Asians), and other non-white groups. At the time, we thought the precedents set by the legislative reversals of Ozawa vs. United States and Thind vs. United States (and the shameful Dred Scott decision) would guide the Supreme Court to sanction racializing citizenship and giving the executive branch carte blanche to exclude certain groups. Tuesday’s 5-4 decision proved us wrong. The court’s decision does more than codify exclusionary policies…