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Along Came a Spider: What the Pope Doesn’t See

By Anthea Butler

…ennington’s abuse of an underage girl 35 years ago. That is church discipline done properly, and from the offshoot root of the Catholic Church. I am not calling for a conservative Catholicism; far from it. What I am calling for is a return to real church discipline, not corporate slot-shuffling. Discipline is not only for the priests in question, but also for the bishops who are worried more about covering their tracks than paving the way for just…

The Religious Case Against Religious Discrimination in Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…definition of a place of public accommodation. Another amicus brief, this one joined by Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis and Muslim religious leaders, in addition to Protestants and Catholics, advances a similar set of arguments. But it also seeks to remind the justices that a “vast spectrum of American faith groups and religious observers” have supported the rights of same-sex couples, affirming that “[a]ny suggestion that ‘religion’ or ‘peopl…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…l incompatibility between democracy and Islam. The social anthropologist Ernest Gellner, for example, regarded Islam as peculiarly resistant to secularization since in his view the religion provides a rigid and unchanging blueprint for life incapable of adaptation to modern, secular society, and therefore inherently resistant to democratization. The French Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida similarly depicted Islam as “the other of democracy,” f…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…ay and the New York Times provided daily coverage, as did major television network news programs. They deployed many reporters on the story, who were in communication with the Justice Department and ATF officials, who were themselves scrambling to keep up with events. President Clinton, facing re-election, met directly with pastors of burned churches and with the National Council of Churches. He then moved quickly to pass the Church Arson Preventi…

A Secret History of Satan

By W. Scott Poole

…their interest in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and the fantastic in general connects to theology, popular religion, and the sacred more generally. There is a real and growing audience out there for this approach as evidenced by Gary Laderman’s book Sacred Matters, Joseph Laycock’s very interesting study Vampires Today, and sites like John W. Morehead’s Theofantastique that examines the borderlands between theology, horror, and the sacred. I a…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…ining in the question rather than the answer. But aren’t there times when one needs some kind of answer, when a question isn’t enough? What would the answer be? Jesus was a failure. He died on the cross. He died like a criminal. How can there be an answer to why human beings suffer? There’s no good answer to that. There are only a series of bad answers: because it will all be all right after death, or because God knows better. That stinks. The onl…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lerance and insults dehumanizing LGBT people.” SOMOSGAY made international news last June when riot police violently removed LGBT protestors supporting a resolution supportive of LGBT rights when they clashed with religious conservative protestors before the beginning of a meeting of the Organization of American States in Asunción last year. López told BuzzFeed News on Thursday that they are counting on the pope to “address the issue” of violence…

The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton

By Paul Harvey

…y pickings for dispassionate truth-seekers like Throckmorton and Coulter. One by one, they consider, historicize, and debunk Barton’s claims: that Jefferson used federal funds to promote missions to the Indians, that he sought a theological professorship at the University of Virginia, that in only a very few of his letters did he attack basic Christian theological beliefs, that he believed not in a “wall of separation” of church and state but in a…

Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to have taken part was a businessman in Virginia, Philip Zodhiates. Telephone records suggest that Mr. Zodhiates was in touch with Ms. Miller for months and drove her and her daughter to the Canadian border for their escape. Mr. Zodhiates has not been indicted, and declined to comment. Telephone records also indicated that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangeli…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…ing their children to do the same, they could win the culture wars through numbers alone. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? My main concern about these convictions is not so much the plans for Christian dominion that Quiverfull authors and homeschooling ministries discuss, but rather that in the service of these ideas, many women are subjecting themselves to an often punishing lifestyle. Quiverfull is not just about the…