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Pennsylvania Rep. Says Contraception Mandate Is Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

… the first things that popped into his mind were bodies, death, fire, and smoking twists of metal. Maybe he thinks that the only people who have ever experienced a truly grievous affront to their agency and well-being are these three groups: 1) victims of the Pearl Harbor attack; 2) victims of the 9/11 attacks; and 3) the boss who thinks Unitarian Stella from accounting shouldn’t be using birth control and by gum he’s not going to pay for a policy…

The End of Jewish Education As We Know It?

By Benjamin Weiner

…get ($1.2 million out of a reported $1.4 million), the BJE is now facing almo*]}*st certain closure. Growing up a Boston Jew, I was only vaguely aware of the alphabet soup that was the organized community. One winter Sunday a year, we would gather in the ballroom of the Park Plaza hotel, where we kids would serve as runners, hustling pledge cards between the phone banks and the clerks in the service of CJP’s massive fundraising operation. And my mothe…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…e of human suffering will be incalculable. In the face of this, one of the most oft-reported responses from an American religious leader was, to many, criminally callous. The RD blog lit up with response, so here, in alphabetical order, our writers reflect on ignorance, Haitian religion, and the scandal of Pat Robertson. —The Eds. _______________________________________________________________ Anthea Butler | Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyield…

As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

By Emma Cieslik

…as I read the summit’s 41-page report. This past Friday I saw New Ways Ministry’s statement, “Synod Report Greatly Disappoints, But We Must Have Hope,” while walking down a busy DC thoroughfare. In it Francis DeBernardo, executive director of the LGBTQ+-affirming Catholic organization, points out how, despite previous documents discussing the welcoming and inclusion of LGBTQ Catholics, there were no positive statements on LGBTQ issues—not even one…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g would focus on frequently unpunished attacks on LGBT people in Serbia. Demonstrators also protested Kader’s death in Istanbul last Sunday. Pakistan: Human rights activists urge protection of trans women Human Rights Watch urged Pakistani authorities to “urgently investigate the surge in violent attacks on transgender women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.” “The surge in brutal attacks on transgender women in Pakistan will only end when authoritie…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…fellowship. Blogs Ritchie of this turn in the Pope’s recent letter, “What most appealed to me in the message was the acknowledgement that the digital world is part of human life and therefore needs to be embraced. This is a very affirming observation for those of us wanting to take engagement seriously.” Our Technologies, Ourselves Nonetheless, two further bursts of digital news during the day challenged the papal letter’s continuing insistence o…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…hurch in our time. Beyond Resistance: The Institutional Church Meets the Postmodern World John Dorhauer Exploration Press (July, 2015) John Dorhauer’s road to leadership of the UCC began with his childhood dream of becoming a Catholic priest. He attended a Catholic seminary until his questions about some of the teachings of the faith made his obedience to the hierarchy a challenge. He married into Lutheranism but was ultimately ordained in the Uni…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…ntry for gross stress reaction. In the DSM-II, the entry was removed. “The most plausible explanation for the omission is that the concept was closely linked to warfare and combat, and DSM-II was written in a peaceful era,” writes Andreasen. The timing could not have been much worse. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was just beginning to escalate; the DSM-II was published the same year as the Tet Offensive. Thousands of veterans came home…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…own and you do it.” For Karen Ziegler, the political parallels have been almo*]}*st uncanny. She was the pastor of the MCC congregation in Greenwich Village for a decade that spanned the emergence of AIDS. “I realized early on in the Trump administration that it felt like the 80s when Ronald Reagan was elected and then there was this sharp, visible turn to the right,” she said. Part of that rightward turn is the way that AIDS and Covid revealed the of…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…Battery Tunnel to the south, the building of which in the 1940s destroyed most of the last residential buildings via eminent domain. In the 1960s, the building of the World Trade Center took care of much of the rest. The tunnel to the south, the tower to the north, but even in the 1980s, there were still “pockets” of human-scaled buildings dating back to the early 19th century. The 9/11 attacks not only destroyed the World Trade Center but also d…