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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

By Becky Garrison

…by “introducing powerful men to Jesus, the Family has managed to effect a number of behind-the-scenes acts of diplomacy.” For example, when the National Prayer Breakfast is held in person, this event allows individuals access to the president without going through the usual vetting process by the State Department. As anticipated, secular groups continue to express concern over the religious rhetoric used during this year’s NPB with repeated calls…

Introducing ‘It’s Your Fault,’ a Series on Blame

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…greedy individuals or a tragedy of the commons? And who’s to blame for the Boston bombing? For rising inequality? For the killing of Jon Snow? As the editors of The Cubit, RD’s science-and-religion portal, blame has been on our minds, for ours is a Golden Age of Finger Pointing. Over the next two weeks, The Cubit will feature a series of articles that explore how fault gets distributed in contemporary society. How does blame take form in the publi…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…s moral reflection is needed. This is not it. The rest of the document, 66 numbered paragraphs, includes an introduction to the notion of human dignity which for the Vatican boils down to Natural Law, and a history of the concept of human rights as it has emerged in Catholicism and some global platforms. The second half is a catalog of what are considered by the writers to be “grave violations” of human dignity: poverty, war, injustice to migrants…

The Other Puritan Dinner Party

By Joanna Brooks

…1591 – 1643), the feminist Puritan who led study groups in her own home in Boston and weighed in on thorny theological questions—works versus grace—that divided leaders of church and colony. For the record, Anne Hutchinson stood on the side of grace, communicated immediately to believers by the Holy Spirit, no need for Church leaders. For her outspokenness, Anne Hutchinson was put on trial by clergy and colonial leaders for dishonoring the “father…

Mormon Feminism is Back

By Joanna Brooks

…cades, “out” Mormon feminists were concentrated in geographical pockets in Boston, or Utah, or California, and those who became visible through their activism or writing became the targets of repression or excommunication. That really changed with the advent of sites like feministmormonhousewives.org, which was launched in 2004. In the blogosphere—we Mormons call it the “bloggernacle,” kind of like “tabernacle”—women who may have once felt isolate…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…within those dioceses had been named in lawsuits targeting sexual abuse—a number that suggests a far higher per-capita rate of offending clergy than even in New Mexico. In New Mexico, the victims of abuse were mainly Nuevomexicano and Indigenous kids. The abusers were often, but not always, white. Many came to New Mexico from faraway places, but some were local men. Colonialism is a structure that has touched everybody and everything here. It has…

Conservative Catholic Elites Oppose Trump… as He Rides Catholic Vote to Victory in Michigan

By Patricia Miller

…tory in states like Ohio to win a second term. (Remember when “judges from Boston” were going to force sodomites on the good people of the heartland?) And who were similarly silent when the party tried to capitalize on the coded racism of the anti-Obama forces in 2012 or upend the Affordable Care Act, even though the Catholic Church has been advocating for universal health care since Model Ts were on the road. And it’s even funnier that those who…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Grand Rabbi Mayer Alter Horowite, the leader of the Har Nof branch of the Boston Hasidic dynasty, held a press conference at his home in Jerusalem: The Rebbe ruled that haredim must not vote for the Bayit Yehudi party due to its part in the IDF draft law, which imposes criminal sanctions on certain yeshiva students who don’t serve in the army, and because it is in favor of granting civil rights to same-sex couples. “There is a community which wan…

Wannabi+Jihadi+Hoodlum= Wajihoodlum

By Hussein Rashid

…Muslim, who emigrated from Senegal. I remember returning to New York from Boston after 9/11. The fact that I was a New Yorker trumped any other identification I had — both race and religion. It was understood that I shared in the grief of the city and was committed to rebuilding. I also remember the city being one of the least fear-filled places in the country after the attack on the Twin Towers. The goal of terrorists is not to kill, but to caus…

Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a “Devout” Muslim?

By Sarah Posner

…vert to Islam named Misha), but in the following clip, we discuss whether Tsarnaev was a “devout” Muslim: * That segment is here….