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Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…to contraception or marriage equality where the Vatican spends millions of dollars trying to make its view stick all over the world. Canonization A similar disappearing act took place during the recent canonization (that looked oddly like a coronation) of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. John XXIII seemed to disappear in a sea of Polish flags celebrating John Paul II. I wasn’t there, but from television and press reports one got the sneaking sus…

GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…isciples are not furthering the Lincoln-Roosevelt gospel. With federal tax dollars, Lincoln expanded western settlement, subsidized agricultural colleges, and sponsored the country’s first trans-continental railroad, the cutting-edge infrastructure of the day. He imposed tariffs and established the federal income tax. He set up a national currency, the Department of Agriculture, a system of national banks, and reviewed the execution warrants for I…

Are Religious People More Generous? (Round LXXVII)

By Evan Derkacz

…at for Bible Skeptics this would be the equivalent of padding their giving dollars by including gym memberships, classes, some social gatherings, etc. Point is, if you label as “generosity” the money we give to maintain structures that in turn directly nourish us, we’re talking about a qualified notion of generosity. At least I hope we are. There may well be a correlation between engagement with the Bible and giving to charity but this study won’t…

Pope Francis Dismisses Condoms in AIDS Fight

By Patricia Miller

…ion of the Bishops of Africa and Madagascar, which called the “billions of dollars allotted to the production and distribution of condoms” a “scandal.” Last year, the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference deplored the provision of condoms by international aid organizations, calling it “a radical and faceless culture of death which promotes among other things the supply and use of the condom in our schools.” And referring to billboards sponsored by Ca…

Ten Religion Stories That Went (Mostly) Missing in 2015

By Peter Laarman

…, they tend to disparage one another. Together they raise many millions of dollars from the congregations (often low-income congregations) they get to join up. They also soak up millions in foundation grants. They have well-trained and well-paid staff who never stop talking about “building power.” They are good at telling the people in the pews about what they are accomplishing in their behalf. But what do they actually accomplish? What’s the scor…

Spiritual Mapping Evangelicals Battle Vodou in Haiti

By Reza Aslan

…ion in the Western hemisphere. Over half of its population lives under two dollars a day. Its infant-mortality rate is 2.5 times higher than its neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The devastating earthquake of 2010 not only shattered much of the country’s infrastructure, it left as many as 300,000 dead. According to the Spiritual Mappers, these conditions are not the result of socio-economic instability. They are not the legacy of what is widely re…

Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…gationist, lost its nonprofit tax status in 1976, and had to pay a million dollars in back taxes. As Falwell himself faced IRS pressures, he furiously whined, “In some states…it’s easier to open a massage parlor than a Christian school,” a telling comparison suggesting that racism was respectable but non-marital sex was not (which may explain his son’s fall from grace). Falwell eventually caved and shifted the rationale for his religious school fr…

Trump Is Out to Erase LGBT Americans from Public Life

By Sunnivie Brydum

…re’s no reason to protect them, and any efforts to do so will be easily dismissed as bleeding-heart liberal campaigns to waste our hard-earned tax dollars. Maybe that’s what they meant by “Make America Great Again”?…

Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a Story of Corruption

By Shaul Magid

…n, with Leibovitz ignoring it entirely and Shafran dismissing it as “a few dollars per child…for things like school safety and nutritious meals.” Leibovitz asks us to consider the unwarranted hegemony about how we define “knowledge”—that is, secular knowledge—and how that definition doesn’t produce healthy adults overall, but a society riddled with drugs, abuse, and unhappiness. In other words, Leibovitz wants us to determine educational value by…

Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors

By Chrissy Stroop

…e full of hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots. Unsurprisingly, the number of ballots found in the truck, fraudulent or otherwise, was precisely zero. If you’re like me, when this story broke, the detail that most stood out to you was that an entity known as the Liberty Center for God and Country paid Aguirre $266,400 as part of its vigilante “investigation” into non-existent election irregularities. We wanted to know who pours that kind of…