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A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…rra Nova, an ordained Baptist minister, leads the independent church and Brazilian movement, Ministério Internacional da Restauração (MIR). He and his wife, Apostle Ana Marita, report that “the church grew from 100 people to over seventy thousand” organized into cell churches comprising an international membership of more than 7 million. He’s also the Convenor of the Brazil Coalition of Apostolic Leaders, formed in 2014, which says that Terra Nova…

A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…tholic hospitals could do so under the claim that such cooperation is immediate material cooperation under duress, and not formal cooperation. They could then tell their bishops that they have no real choice if they wish to continue to serve the poor and needy, which is their major commitment. My belief that some Catholic hospitals have had it with attempts by bishops to “play doctor” is buoyed by Phoenix’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, which accepted it…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…nd Phoenix suggests this dynamic. It is not simply that Dodd is a megalomaniac who desires mastery over others. Rather, his followers, particularly the troubled Freddie, desire a master—they actively mold Dodd into this role. Skeptics know that Dodd cannot really “fix” Freddie by uncovering traumatic events that happened to him in previous lives. Nor can these unusual therapeutic techniques cure leukemia or avert the threat of nuclear war as Dodd…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…tell the tale of the cross and the dirt. Or maybe, just maybe, we’ll find diary upon diary authored by John McCain keening for Christ’s particular grace. Or maybe we’ll hear stories (from his daughters, from his sons) of how embarrassed, how mortified he was to be such a religious monkey, how certain he was that The Code of Conduct was all he should need, and how it was that that man, that eight-year President, made him be so very evangelical in o…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…cess to abortion and contraceptives, as well as for purveying obscene materials. (He even boasted that he was responsible for approximately 15 suicides of people he’d investigated.) Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had to flee the country to avoid prosecution under the Comstock Act (though her husband, William Sanger, unfortunately served time in jail for publishing her birth-control pamphlet Family Limitation). Readers can prob…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…th groups of friends, and scheduling shifts as lamplighters or temple guardians. These are not desert fathers or renunciants seeking a wilderness away from civilization in which they suffer and travail to prove their faith. Burners revel in the pleasures of the world. They bring civilization with them and seek transformation in the midst of a wild and vibrant city teeming with life. Some Burners regularly attend a church, synagogue, temple, or mos…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…rmation from uniformed personnel, I went online and asked my friends on social media if they had heard what was going on. Answers came quickly and soon we knew that there were no confirmed shots and that it seemed to have been a false alarm. I shared what I learned with those standing around me or who didn’t have a phone, compared notes with others about what they knew, and tried to calm some who were scared and close to panic. As far as I could t…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…rayer leaders. Until that time, it continues to be an event. Only two official fatwas were given against the women-led prayer and one of them was from Saudi Arabia. At the time I asked some colleagues whether they thought the fatwa would be a problem if I sought to secure a visa to perform my hajj and they said, “It might.” One of those whom I asked was the late Dr. Nasr aAbu-Zayd, who also offered this consolation: “People have a short memory, it…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ever since we beings were human: the covenant of sound. You and your associates have desecrated a work of transcendent beauty and blasphemed Music. I demand that you remove at once all remaining traces of “Rhapsody in Blue” from the safety videos now being shown on United and Continental flights. I fully appreciate that United Continental Holdings holds the rights to Gershwin’s composition and presumably to such “derivative works.” Yet I also kno…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…n army of volunteers—to help with the effort. A Champion is simply a Christian talking to other Christians about registering and voting.” Stemberger has been involved in the United in Purpose events, too, according to the Florida Independent. He had originally endorsed Rick Perry, but switched to Santorum after the Texas meeting of religious right leaders. United in Purpose held “One Nation Under God” events at 34 Florida churches last year, at wh…