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Democrats Alarmed Over USCCB Pressure on Obama over Contraceptive Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…. Derrick Harkins, is anti-choice, Harkins has been outspoken on reaching “common ground” on abortion, including making birth control available. (To be clear, though, the Bishops’ invocation of the “religious liberty” issue could change the equation). But more crucially, as Laurie Goodstein reported in her piece about the Bishops’ recent meeting in Baltimore, at which their new religious liberty initiative was announced, few Catholics seem to be i…

Discussing the New Duggar Pregnancy Without Being a Sexist Jerkmuffin

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…w pregnancy diminishes many women’s chance at economic survival and independence. Discussing the frightening testimonies of women who used to be part of the Quiverfull movement. Unpacking the theological assumptions behind Michelle Duggar’s claim that, mindful of the fact that her last pregnancy was fraught with medical complications that put her health at risk, she is willing to “lay down her life” to have another baby. Pondering the christologi…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…sdom among today’s self-styled progressive religious leaders that finding “common ground” with uncompromising opponents is the best path to change. In addition to Moody’s work detailed above—most notable perhaps for the way in which he showed great leadership by following and learning from women, and not by lecturing and telling them what to do—the Reverend ran support groups (and memorials) for gay men during the early days of the AIDS crisis (wh…

Status of Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Unclear; U.S. Religious Right Support Isn’t

By Peter Montgomery

…da, a situation the New York Times recently described as “a success story [come] undone.” Many religious right leaders who’ve been ecstatic about the part of Museveni’s prayer committing the nation of Uganda to following a particular interpretation of biblical principles, have taken less note of a section of the prayer that would seem to fly in the face of the draconian anti-gay bill: “Help us to see that we are all your children, children of the…

Perry Thinks Palestinians Should Be Shafted, No Surprise

By Sarah Posner

…ristian Zionists like fellow Texan John Hagee. Danon, who has likened President Obama to Pharaoh, appeared via videotape at the inaugural Freedom Federation conference last year at Liberty University, saying, “we know you love us and want to commend you for unconditional support for state of Israel,” adding that “Christians and Jews share the same future.” That’s code not only for no state for the Palestinians, but a perpetuation of illegal settle…

Should Politicians Say God Has All the Answers?

By Sarah Posner

…ut their faith more because God forbid conservatives think they’re godless communists, so this is no surprise. But here Pryor is trying to have it both ways: the Bible is his guide, but he doesn’t have all the answers, God does, leaving him enough wiggle room to seem bipartisan without actually explaining what his record is and why he has taken the positions he has. Setting aside the essential question that dogs us here—why in an increasingly plur…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…s brought about by members of Qur’an-burning Terry Jones’ congregation who come to protest the festival every year. An Arab festival, not a Muslim festival. Pamela Geller famously objected to the teaching of the Arabic language because it might lead to Islamist indoctrination. It might also, Little Syria tells us, lead to literature, music, and community. We begin the tour standing on the edge of a tiny pocket park between Greenwich Street and the…

Pope Francis and the American Sisters

By Mary E. Hunt

…Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group of American nuns that had come under doctrinal scrutiny and been found wanting. Archbishop Mueller claimed that he had “recently discussed the Doctrinal Assessment with Pope Francis, who reaffirmed the findings of the Assessment and the program of reform for this Conference of Major Superiors.” On the face of it, this means that Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Leonard P. Blair, and Bishop Thomas…

An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men

By Eric C. Miller

…que of “tolerance” as a political value, Craig claims that the term is now understood in a completely different way than it has been in the past. This portion is worth quoting at some length. He says: Tolerance should mean, though I disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it. So that we tolerate people, but we discriminate between views. We discriminate views as true or false, but we tolerate those who advocate fal…

Deception, Doubt and Divinity (School)

By Meghan Florian

…as the revelation that MacBain falsely represented her educational background shouldn’t become an excuse for atheist bashing, neither is it acceptable to act as if attending DDS would have drastically altered MacBain’s path—though of course that is always a possibility. When Dean Hays reflects further that, “I regret equally that [MacBain] did not in fact avail herself of the opportunity to come to Duke Divinity School and learn from our faculty,…