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Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

…wrote in his blog for Time. “The reason for the latter is his now-anachronistic first resort to anger; again and again, he cheapens public discourse through exaggeration and wild claims. One imagines that if John McCain were President and Paul Krugman had said, out of the box, that he wanted McCain to fail, Gingrich would be leading the charge, calling Krugman ‘unpatriotic’ and even, perhaps, traitorous.” Gingrich’s “fresh start” as symbolized by…

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Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

…le that narrative should be. Is there room for divergent thinking, for honest questioning of received beliefs and traditions? Outsiders often perceive conservative Christian homeschooling as a straightjacket of conformity, where kids have to toe an ideological line without the opportunity to consider other ways of being in the world. But I’ve yet to meet a homeschool parent who says she doesn’t want her children to learn to think for themselves an…

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Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

…I felt like it wasn’t progressive enough. This is about the time that I just started to meander into metaphysical bookstores and start to explore a different language around ethics and belief and spirituality. On your most recent album, When Everything Breaks Open, you’ve got a song “Bloodline” where you sing, “God loves her more than the Christians do.” This is a common (and potent) critique of the church in our spiritual-but-not-religious age….

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Sometimes You Can’t Say a Word

…brown faces of Barack, Michelle, Malia and Sasha walked hand-in-hand upon the national stage. And one had the feeling that the human dignity and personality of America’s darker-hued sons and daughters who have done so much to shape this nation was finally being affirmed in the highest institutional form possible. This moment could not be obscured by over analysis. Neither should it have been negated by punditry and pontification. Rather, it was j…

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Gen X, Gadgets, and God

…utside the formal worship site. “It’s about, you know, help me to be the best Christian, the best person I can be in my conversations, my communications,” the Rev. Lisa Vaughn explained to a reporter from the Globe and Mail. In this regard, Vaughn has made two important gestures toward religious relevancy for Millennials and Gen-Xers. First, she hands over the goods of the church (the blessing) for the enrichment of the spirituality of daily life….

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Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

…leading and do little to reveal people’s political opinions. “National pollsters need to stop using self-labeling to gauge true sentiment on the issue of choice,” she says. “These labels have lost their meaning.” In a Gallup poll earlier this year, 72 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of the general population identified as “pro-life”; the number of Americans who identified as “pro-choice” hit a record low. But respondents’ opinions on policy…

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The Wounded People of God

…ther from friends, acquaintances, or those whom I have had occasion to assist, most notably in a parish I attended in Los Angeles. The parish had to deal with the arrest of a former priest who had molested multiple children, one on the day of their first communion. The new priest wanted to provide a forum for healing for parishioners, but realized his position perhaps was not the best one from which he could provide solace or healing given this pa…

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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

…ing now endured almost two decades of continuous armed conflict with Islamist states and groups, there’s been so little violence against Muslims in this country. But when you weaponize words in this way, and you legitimate that in the national sphere, and you legitimate a discourse against the state, and you legitimate a defense of violence and of guns, at the same time that there are actual actors outside the U.S. trying to destabilize our discou…

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How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

…shared by strange, brown, Muslim folks in distant lands. As a Muslim feminist from Pakistan—where feminism is local, and has many colors, and isn’t always called “feminism” because “feminism” is owned and run by White women who bring White men in fighter planes—I felt wracked with discomfort. I heard the baristas’ assumptions about Middle Easterners and Muslims. I thought of Pakistani activists, scholars, lawyers, theologians, politicians, and lay…

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Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

…he centuries. I see the Jefferson Bible as a kind of spiritual Rorschach test. Just as with the founding fathers themselves, it’s easy to see what we want to see. Especially since Jefferson didn’t write any of this. He simply edited, and so there’s a lot of interpretation that can be done in terms of the very act of making the Jefferson Bible. He explained the reasons for making the book in his correspondence, but there’s nothing in the book itsel…

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