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Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…nd while many of the attacks on Obama’s faith were motivated by naked partisanship (and not a small amount of racism), I’m not sure Walz’s detractors can help themselves. In a now-deleted post, one Twitter user argued: Walz isn’t actually Lutheran, either: his church does not confess the unaltered Confession of Augsburg to be true, and so they are not actually Lutheran, but just a stack of Methodists in a trenchcoat. That user, like Hemingway, app…

Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…m both current and former staff, notable examples include: siding with the Chicago archdiocese’s complaints over his own staff’s reporting; the issuance of an unusually large number of free press releases to Catholic organizations (over the strenuous objection of RNS’ then-marketing director); and directly pushing coverage of Catholic stories—including to the the former editor-in-chief, whose “news judgement” was ultimately questioned for, as Jone…

US Bishops Meeting: Pope Who?

By Patricia Miller

…s been highly critical of efforts to modernize the church. Newly appointed Chicago Bishop Blase J. Cupich was selected as an alternate. And Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who spent the meeting denying that there was any discord at the recent family synod and blaming any perception of such on the media, was elected to head the Committee on Pro-Life Activities, giving him an elevated platform and a good excuse to dial-up the anti-abortion rhetoric. The lea…

2016 Was the Year Queer and Trans Muslims Entered the Public Consciousness: Mahdia Lynn On This New Era

By The Editors

…Rabia, a women-centered LGBTQ affirming mosque, and is heavily involved in Chicago’s faith and justice communities, with a focus on police accountability, prison abolition, trans liberation and disability justice. This episode explores Mahdia’s life and work. Deborah and Mahdia talk about hard times—addiction, mental illness and a brutal encounter with the cops. But they also get into the good stuff, like the freedom felt when you’re finally safe…

Catholics Fire Back at Bishops’ Anti-Gay Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…to Palacios, the taxpayer-to-charity mix for Catholic Charities funding in Chicago is 87 to 3 (the remainder representing things like fees for services). He quoted ranges of taxpayer funding in other dioceses from 54 to 86 percent. Catholic Charities, he suggests, would more accurately be described as “Catholic contractors.” Palacios also pointed to a speech given earlier this year by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi in opposition to UN recognition of L…

Satan Has a Posse (of Bats)

By Gabriel Mckee

…lone anti-bat prophet? A few quick Google searches reveals that similar posters have appeared in Philadelphia: …and Chicago:…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ts (Reissued by Kessinger Publishing, 2005) Protestant—Catholic—Jew (U. of Chicago Press, 1983) Beyond the Melting Pot (M.I.T. Press, 1963) We Are All Multiculturalists Now (Harvard U. Press, 1997) Moses and Monotheism (Vintage, 1955) Moses the Egyptian (Harvard U. Press, 1998) Like seventy million other people around the world, I watched the Joe Biden v. Sarah Palin vice presidential debate with some apprehension. I didn’t expect to learn anythin…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…ent toward cities, as hipster evangelicals plant new churches in New York, Chicago, and L.A. with names like The Journey, The Awakening, and Revolution. But Palin is not a hipster evangelical. She is, as she tells us over and over, a small town girl. And she grew up in a small town church, one with a fondness for spiritual war and a wariness of cosmopolitanism. “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Palin…

RI Civil Unions Religious Exemption Sets Dangerous Precedent

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…manner possible. Governor Lincoln Chafee reluctantly signed the bill. The Chicago Tribune noted that he had wanted full marriage equality for gay and lesbian citizens of his state: Describing the proposal that passed the tiny New England state’s Senate this week as “a step forward,” he said it did not fully achieve its goals of giving same gender pairs the same rights, benefits, protections and responsibilities as married couples. The new law inc…

Post-Zionism or Post-Judaism?

By Brian Britt

…niper discharged from the Israeli Defense Forces. The Zohan, starring Adam Sandler (who also co-wrote and produced the film), resembles such willfully vulgar satires as Talladega Nights and Superbad. A renowned soldier and lover, Zohan gives up fighting terrorists to follow his dream of styling hair for Paul Mitchell in New York. When that fails, he goes to work for a Palestinian-owned hair salon across the street from Israeli shops. Like an inver…