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Ryan-DeLauro’s Common Ground on Abortion is in Religious Territory

By Sarah Posner

…ns. Stigmatizing Abortion? The reluctance of reproductive health groups to sign on to CLURT, and to endorse the previous version of Ryan-DeLauro, stemmed in large part from what might broadly be called stigmatization concerns. The CLURT report, as Catholics for Choice former president Frances Kissling said last year, “confessed the sins of the left. But it never said and you, on the right, better get over your hostility to secularism.” Use of term…

Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group

By Sarah Posner

…nts to decide what our next steps will be. We may choose to advocate for a significant overhaul of the Conference of Presidents’ processes. We may choose to simply leave the Conference of Presidents. But this much is certain: We will no longer acquiesce to simply maintaining the facade that the Conference of Presidents represents or reflects the views of all of American Jewry. We want to be clear: The Conference of Presidents followed its own proc…

Catholic Healthcare Is Not the Enemy

By Frances Kissling

…rtlesville Examiner-Enterprise…” To some extent, questions like this are designed to cover up the fact that the reporter does not know the answer to her own question and for some reason hasn’t bothered to find it. “The order to restrict contraceptives,” wrote The Nation’s Steven Hsieh, “reportedly came from Ascension Health, a non-profit Catholic health services company that acquired St. John Health System in 2013… Sheila Reynerston, Advocacy Coor…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…ics, and identity reveals a deep anxiety among even the most privileged, a sign that capital and its inherent desire to destabilize have unmoored and unsteadied every part of the world. We should take any such argument seriously, especially for the almost existential helplessness it admits. Caldwell fears the dilution of an ideal Europe, whose countries had and should have distinct yet interchangeable cultures, all equally incompatible with a Musl…

Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…link across ages and cultures. Bread, whether common or exotic, becomes a sign of universality. Protestant churches, on the other hand, have sometimes embraced local variations of “staple food and festive drink” for the sacrament. With local foods, the sacrament reflects universality by analogy to the world of Jesus, in the ordinariness of a community’s own daily life. Everybody’s gotta eat. This is a serious dilemma for a religion based on the c…

The Agenda in Making John Paul an Insta-Saint

By Patricia Miller

…h are available, and the response was very clear,” Oder said. “There is no sign of a personal involvement of the Holy Father in this matter.” Supporters of John Paul’s fast-track canonization, like The Vatican Diaries author John Thavis, argue that the sex abuse scandal shouldn’t define the pope’s legacy. “One of the questions here is whether a pope can be a saint and also make managerial mistakes, and I think Vatican officials would say yes,” he…

Why Conservatives are Turning on Beck

By Sarah Posner

…s nuclear threat, at the Heritage Foundation, and about how the film being promoted by a former colleague of World Net Daily’s Aaron Klein, who was one of the first conservative writers to jump on the conspiracy train: lest you forget, that line of thinking goes, Mohamed ElBaradei, while head of the IAEA, let Iran off the hook on its nuclear ambitions; ElBaradei’s OK with the Muslim Brotherhood; therefore he must be behind the plot to install a nu…

Evangelical Stephen Baldwin’s Imitatio Christi & “Reality” TV

By Gabriel Mckee

Over the last year or two, I’ve become an unironic, unapologetic fan of reality TV. I know the criticisms—they dumb us down, they elevate public humiliation—but what I’m really interested in is the way shows like Spike’s Joe Schmo Show or VH1’s I Love Money turn into morality plays about the value of friendship and loyalty. In the best reality shows, the initial rush of schadenfreude is gradually replaced with a genuine affection for the “good gu…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. For the first time, transgender people showed up on Adventist radar in a significant way. The Ethics Committee of the Biblical Research Institute released a statement on “transgenderism” in late 2014, which said that “from a biblical perspective the human being is a psychosomatic unity. This means that sexual identity cannot be entirely independent from one’s body as is frequently asserted.” A 2015 statement by the Theological Seminary at Andrew…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…ly joined with others in attempting to get progressive religious people to sign a statement of concern about the potential for what amounts to a coup should Trump fail to win legitimate reelection. Despite having the endorsement of several leading national faith leaders, our effort never gained momentum. Clergy friends told me privately that they thought the statement wasn’t needed and that pointing to a possible coup could even become a self-fulf…