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The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…stigmatized identity in the U.S., only slightly more popular than Muslims—report that families often react with anger and rejection, as communication deteriorates and distrust grows. While research is somewhat limited on individuals’ experiences leaving religion more broadly, and coming out to family and friends, it’s generally assumed that there are significant stressors involved that impact well being. I interviewed individuals who left fundame…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…y. The Doctor learns the mysterious fact that the city-ship’s populace has repeatedly voted to forget, which is—spoiler warning!—that their city is built on the back of an enormous space whale, the last of its kind, and they are torturing it to keep their city moving through space. This puts the Doctor in a difficult situation—he can’t let the beast go, because it would cause the city to crumble and its inhabitants to perish. But neither can he le…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…a ten-month-old who insists on sleeping right in the middle; countless random commutes; and, sometimes, holding a baby for hours after I’ve come to my end of holding capacity. It doesn’t help that my second daughter is pushy about whether or not I should be allowed to sit down any longer when her baby remains fussy. Still, when you get around these bug-eyed bundles of joy, some of their goodness rubs off. So, even when I say to myself “I must set…

Finding the “Good Girl Role Model”

By Kathryn Joyce

…gh a dark counterpoint to the example of the fallen, selfless mother. In a report prepared in early June, members of Woman’s 8th March Alliance, Warsaw Poland (see a similar report here from the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning), detailed the second Agata’s story: some weeks after the assault, the girl and her family requested an abortion at their local hospital on the grounds that the pregnancy resulted from an illegal act. They ha…

Who’s Accusing Who of Mormon-Baiting?

By Joanna Brooks

…mark came from a “script” and that “Catholics across the nation should be prepared to receive these deceitful and dissembling phone calls.” Catholic Democrats immediately responded with a statement that the report was “unequivocally false” and that if there were in fact “Catholic-to-Catholic phonebanking questioning Mitt Romney’s faith,” “our organization had no part in them.” Catholics for Obama also pointed to a statement released last fall by…

The End of Jewish Education As We Know It?

By Benjamin Weiner

…JP allocation represents over 90% of the BJE budget ($1.2 million out of a reported $1.4 million), the BJE is now facing almost 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 C…

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

By Matt Recla

…’s cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti; on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I’m optimistic something good may come. But right now, we’re helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable. KRISTI WATTS (co-ho…

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

By Emma Cieslik

…f the Synod of Bishops, punctuated by anger 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 posi…

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

…signatories had already declared themselves to be in a same-sex marriage,” reports Nicholas Hellen, “Doubling the number threatens the fragile truce on an issue that has divided the church since same-sex marriages were allowed in England and Wales in March 2014.” Iraq: Interview with Kurdish human rights activist Ayaz Shalal, a human rights activist from the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, was interviewed by the Washington Blade during a visit to…

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

By Elizabeth Drescher

…g with regard to religious practice in particular. Both internet and smart phone users were more likely to participate in religious or spiritual groups than were people who do not regularly use digital media. By “participate,” the researchers were referring to physical, geographically located, face-to-face engagement: attending meetings, volunteering, taking leadership roles, and donating money. In all of these categories, participation was higher…