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As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…d the birds in flight and saying, ‘Thank you God,’ and you’re taking that away from me.” You write “theism promises simplicity and security and delivers neither,” but you do refer to a world that was “not yet ready for atheism.” Do you believe the world is now ready for atheism? As long as there is fear, it will never be fully ready. Fear makes you reach for a supernatural insurance policy. But yeah, I think so. As I was dealing with Catholics who…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

I just got off the phone with Nancy Ratzen, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, who said the group would be issuing an endorsement of Elana Kagan later today. Ratzen, who said the NCJW has, since 2001, “engaged consistently on reviewing and taking positions and educating and mobilizing progressive Jewish community” on judicial nominations, said that the group would be working hard to see Kagan confirmed. “We think she has an except…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n the case of a man like Bernie Madoff, because he so mysteriously found a way to have it both ways. The offices on the 19th floor were transparent. They were walls of glass. But Bernie Madoff designed them with a special feature: he could hit a button, and the glass would miraculously turn white, like a wall. “Now you see it, now you don’t.” Like all the money. I am haunted by this image, now. You can see through the thing; suddenly you cannot. I…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…or whatever. That seemed like it might be a jarring experience. Well, “its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.” [Ed. –Proverbs 3:17; the verse is used widely today in Jewish liturgy, in reference to the Torah]. Those who keep Shabbat, Shabbat keeps them, right? I think it’s deeply entrenched in spiritual and religious life that the spiritual life, that the spiritual path, is also the path of thriving and flourishing and hea…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ere as registered guests, participating like everyone else.” “I was blown away by how afraid the SBC must be to engage in these important conversations, so much so that they would revoke our registration and force us to leave,” Robertson concluded. “I felt the full weight of their fear, and where there is such fear, we can be certain that there is no possibility of love. Phone calls and an email inquiry to representatives of the Southern Baptist C…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…the side of the marginalised and vulnerable.” At the Bondings blog of New Ways Ministry, Bob Shine points out that Fides, the Vatican news agency, has now published the Southern Cross editorial at its website. The Fides excerpt includes this comparison of anti-gay persecution to attacks on Christians in Pakistan: “Such laws are not only unjust, but they also have the potential to tear at the fabric of society if they are misused to facilitate fal…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…Axelrod, explaining that given GOP control of the House there would be no way to maintain the tax cuts for the middle-class without keeping those for the wealthiest. To mark this latest capitulation framed as a compromise, a letter to the Washingtonians… To the moderate political classes, religious leaders, and activists who are tempted after the Republican gains in the 2010 midterms to call for more compromise, civility, and government sensitivi…

Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

By Bill Berkowitz

…how. Our former presidents had the right formula. Proven leadership has always been the way. Now you can reacquaint yourself and your family with the winning ways to a better America.” The Gingrich “winning ways to a better America?” Two Gingrich produced DVDs; “Rediscovering God in America” and “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny,” and joining with Gingrich’s American Solutions “at the great TEA Party Day on April 15th.” “I’ve known Newt Gin…

The Banality of Bernie

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…was a man for whom appearances mattered greatly — the way you dressed, the way you talked, the way you looked. His offices reflected this. They were state of the art, enclosed in panoptic glass, sophisticated in their wiring, despite Madoff’s protests of computer illiteracy and lack of knowledge about the new technologies. Clearly he did; he had a computer at home, too. And he knew the dangers as well as the advantages of the computer. The 17th fl…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…n Muslims, however, are mourning Clinton’s loss and responding in the same way as others who exist as the subjects of Trump’s demagoguery and the objects of his supporters’ disdain: Latinos, LGBT communities and women, to name a few. On November 9th, two such friends of mine took a day off from their jobs so that they could cry all day. They were literally worried sick. One described the previous night as “the longest panic attack I’ve ever had.”…