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Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

By Bill Berkowitz

…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…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…d Michele Bachmann, two Tea Party favorites with presidential aspirations. Most iGovern participants are homeschooled, because the organization running the show is a civic education program for homeschoolers called Generation Joshua. GenJ (as it is fondly called by its more than 5,000 teenage members) is a division of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), the world’s largest and most influential homeschool advocacy organization. “Gene…

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

By Jesse James DeConto

Matt Morris just might be the ultimate archetype of postmodern spirituality. He’s a cradle Episcopalian who became one of American neo-Paganism’s most famous voices, only to return to the Episcopal church, where he served briefly as a parish music minister in Portland, Oregon. Of late, he’s been investigating Quaker spirituality. Morris’ religious wandering as what he calls a “minor-league celebrity” has played out in cyberspace and on the pages…

Sometimes You Can’t Say a Word

By Jonathan L. Walton

…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…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…flexibility of access, opportunities for sharing and collaboration, and almo*]}*st endless options for creative customization extends across generations. This in itself offers a never been before seen level of authority to youth in particular, especially with regard to sacred resources. So, it is not digital tools and toys at the center of cultural change to which religious leaders are attempting to respond, but the nature of spiritual authority itse…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

New polling data released by Republicans For Choice suggests that most self-identified Republicans are actually in favor of abortion rights. The omnibus poll was conducted by TNS, an independent research firm which conducts weekly phone polls, according to a Republicans for Choice press release. The poll asked, regardless of respondents’ personal feelings about abortion, whether “the woman, family, and her doctor [should] make the decision or th…

The Wounded People of God

By Anthea Butler

…although I suspect it will serve as a balance to what has passed, and what most likely will come of my future writing on the subject. It is apparent that there has been a pile-on in the media about the Catholic Church, much of it deserved, some petty, and some just plain old wrong. But it’s hard not to take on the church when its response to the growing scandal is termed as gossip, not once, but twice, and the criticism of the Pope or the church c…

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

By Michael Schulson

…is a way in which thinking about Israel is a way of thinking about what is most in need of perfection in the world. We should probably worry more about something like these tweets because we’re in a space in which the use of anti-Judaism as a way of fantasizing the perfection of the world is already becoming very powerful. What’s the connection between anti-Jewish politics and utopian politics? It depends on what you mean by utopian, but I think i…

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

…do I emerge Exceptional Academic, rippling with cerebral muscles. I go in Struggling Momma, and I emerge Dr. Barely There. Cafés help me transition from one mode to the next. In my study, surrounded by onesies and jangly toys, I can’t really transition, and I end up blogging about the challenges of motherhood. So, one day, I left my toddler in her father’s care, and went to a café. I like my baristas. I enjoy making conversation with them about p…

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

By Gordon Haber

…ted from “the dross of his biographers” in order to better understand “the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man.” The resulting book became known as the Jefferson Bible. The long, strange history of the object is now the subject of a new book by Peter Manseau, The Jefferson Bible: A Biography. Peter Manseau is the Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History…