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Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…tter, is that they are so personally strange as to make their ministries almo*]}*st unclassifiable. Is this the religious right? It’s not clear that even those who appreciate the label would want this guy. Although tired of “being smeared” and “defamed” on the internet by “gay apologists,” as he puts it, Lively, who is a lawyer, has decided not to sue. Instead he is embarking on a campaign “to give them a taste of their own medicine and expose the SPL…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty got involved and made the brilliant strategic move of recruiting the self-sacrificing Little Sisters of the Poor as the poster children of opposition to the mandate. Forcing nuns to provide “abortion inducing drugs” because the mandate would cover emergency contraceptives became the rallying cry of everyone from Dolan to Donald Trump, who immediately realized the culture war potency of the issue and promised…

Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at its Peril

By Elizabeth Drescher

…is Facebook page has spilled over with conversation—some of it heated, but most of it respectful—on the weight of Catholic teachings on sexuality in particular, and full acceptance of all of the Church’s teachings in general, in decisions regarding access to the sacraments. There is arguably something sacramental in this dialogical practice, at least some sort of “visible and invisible grace” pointing to the kind of compassion, love, and justice…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…que supposedly so hateful of Western freedoms. Where finance is concerned, most muftis—Islamic religious scholars—agree that God prohibits charging any amount of interest on loans. Trading debt and risky speculation are off-limits too, as is investment in immoral enterprises like gambling, prostitution, and war profiteering. Transactions should be highly transparent and risk, as well as return, should be shared by all parties. You can’t trap peopl…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…he behaves during oral arguments; and let’s be honest, his behavior during most of his public appearances where he performs a mightily embittered form of victimization. All in all, we’ve long known Sam Alito is as right-wing as the day is long. But I’d thought there might be some rules that even a Sam Alito wouldn’t dare break. Unwritten rules, of course, because the “ethics code” this Supreme Court gave itself isn’t worth the paper it was written…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…red for the numerous car chases we bring to their urban cores? ECB policy! Most heretically: Can you be friends with our nemeses? Uh-oh. Spy is much more than irreverent slapstick flick; it’s edgy in its honesty, valuing sororal loyalty to the point of political infidelity. In an age when there is no higher value than being open-minded, comedy might be the most politically subversive means to any end. Cartoons are blasphemy, comics are pundits. An…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…tered on security, and the powerful emotions it evokes, can trump even the most persuasive logic. Democrats ignore that lesson at their peril. But it’s a bitter pill for some to swallow. You can watch them struggling with it on the op-ed page of the New York Times, where the bellwether liberal columnists take very different views on the issue. Frank Rich urges Democrats to put the war front and center in their campaign because “the mere mention of…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…eral, but with Pokémon, the funeral, the cemetery, and now even the Holocaust memorial and 9/11 memorial, have become the game. Pokémon is new because it transforms real places—cemeteries, museums, and hospitals—into diversion. This is deeply different from diverting yourself from a place or a situation by playing a game or checking Twitter. Transforming a sacred or holy place into a diversion and a meaningless recreational activity is more than “…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…sue with faith communities organizing to fight the AHCA, surely one of the most heartless bills to come out of Congress in recent years—and that’s saying something. If Faith in Public Life and its associated groups have a winning strategy, that’s great! But I suspect they don’t. Admittedly, I’ve been a persistent critic of the religious left for a while now, so take that with the requisite grain of salt. But I don’t think they do, which points to…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…ms are a whole other story. Here is where I fall into the same category as most of my friends’ elderly parents. Many of them retain a desire to relax and let religious impulses loose again. As if their lives of prosperity and comfort were a form of secular boot camp. We first-generation immigrants of the 60s, 70s and so on (I must add “so on” because I am immigrant of the 90s), unlike our children, have experienced life as members of predominantly…