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God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis?

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…riage.” Kathleen E. Jenkin’s careful study of divorced Christians suggests significant unease, pain, and shame on the issue of divorce and remarriage among believers, and churches have responded in creative ways that provide both theological and practical avenues for divorced persons—as evidenced, for example, in new Catholic rules on annulments. Yet the dissonance is not fully resolved. For example, in online chatrooms and in advice columns, evan…

Catholic News We Missed Last Week While Stalking the Pope

By Mary E. Hunt

…in Germany when a Polish man tossed him something to eat while making the sign of the cross. John joined the Jesuits, engaged in study and formation, doing it all right until he fell in love. The rest is an important chapter in church history. Starting with his hallmark book, The Church and the Homosexual (1976), John was a public advocate in print and on the airwaves for opening discussion. He urged new ways of thinking religiously about same-se…

Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…licenses is not in itself evil. Yet, while Kim Davis is still required to sign the name of her moral person to official documents, she still fears implicating her moral person in — what, to her, are — immoral acts. In this case, the problem that Ms. Davis had in signing the marriage licenses because they transgressed her conscience could be obviated by calling attention to the fact that it was not Kim Davis in person with a conscience and religio…

Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…cemakers. So rather than donning cut-off jeans and angrily pumping a peace sign while marching in the streets, he quietly modeled compassion as the antidote to violence, This does not mean he rolled over in a namby-pamby way, as the folk singer Pete Seeger once described him. Rogers might have sounded and looked wimpy, but he was fiercely dedicated to a pacifism rooted in human dignity for all. The strength of this conviction led him to create a p…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…cheap. A package of 50 classes in the Hamptons (which includes early class signups) runs for $4,000. New York magazine interviewed one New York City rider who, by the magazine’s estimate, was spending more than $21,000 on SoulCycle each year. A single class, sans early sign-up perks, costs nearly as much as a month-long membership at my local YMCA. Meanwhile, back on SoulCycle’s website, instructors describe their work in frankly spiritual languag…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…pundits and pollsters.) But some are becoming more circumspect in light of significant membership losses and institutional belt-tightenings of their own. Dorhauer takes the losses in stride, even in grief. He sees around him “a mature faith that refuses to see death as the last word,” That’s one reason why even a diminishing UCC will likely continue to powerfully shape American Christianity and culture. That, and the fact that the UCC wields consi…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…OUP did a wonderful job. The bright pink evokes Gran Fury’s Silence=Death sign, which became a symbol of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 90s, especially the work of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which is the basis of one of my chapters. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? One of my favorite books in the field is Leigh Schmidt’s Hearing Things, which is historically and theoretically rich in addition…

The Sacred and the Dead: Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture

By Deborah J. Baiano Berman

…e morning comes, it’ll do you fine. Till the morning comes, like a highway sign, Showing you the way, leaving no doubt, Of the way on in or the way back out. ~ “Till the Morning Comes” A long time ago in a faraway land, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Deadheads. My thesis was that Deadheads were the embodiment of moral community worthy of notice and an example of how community—as Jean-Jacques Rousseau understood it—can be achieved in a society…

Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”

By Peter Montgomery

…d by the hopeful, and then celebratory, pro-equality crowd. People carried signs identifying themselves as “Baptists for Marriage Equality” and “Catholics for Equality.” A person wearing a T-shirt from DC’s Wesley Theological Seminary carried a sign declaring, “As Christians, we are called to EVERYONE.” Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion includes only a short reference to the religious liberty battles that are bound to come. Kennedy writes…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…unselor, had been there all along, paying attention and flashing the peace sign with his long, aging hippie hair and Hush Puppies. It just took the right words at the right time for Lindsay to notice. “Maybe you’re tired and broken?” Rosso asks Lindsay as she slouches and cringes. “Your tongue half-twisted with words half-spoken and thoughts unclear? What do you want me to do? To do for you, to see you through?” “Why are you talking like that,” sh…