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“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…ry: A father can lose his family, his home, access to his children and pay high child support. “Anyone who gets married has to worry about losing everything in a divorce,” asserts John Crouch, Director of Americans for Divorce Reform. Perhaps 50 million Americans in broken homes live under court orders, intrusively dictating terms of how each family is to live. No Fault allows one person to file on vague grounds of “incompatibility” even though th…

The Senate Deal: Still Stroking the Rich [UPDATED]

By Peter Laarman

…were taxed at 28 percent under Bush the Elder and Bill Clinton; during the high-growth 1960s and early 1970s tax rates on unearned income ranged between 28 and 35 percent.) And what did Biden and McConnell do with the estate tax? This one really does stink to high heaven, religiously speaking. The White House went in saying that estates above $3.5 million should have to pay 45 percent. Biden took a deal that completely exempts individual states of…

Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…t Artist’s Co-op, a project of the 1960s Fluxus art movement, around which high-end fashion boutiques now proliferate. The record Early Shaker Spirituals came out in 1976, just a year after The Wooster Group was founded. In 1979, founder Liz LeCompte and company made their ownpilgrimage to Sabbathday Lake and other East Coast Shaker sites; it was longtime company member Kate Valk’s first trip. The Wooster Group has a unique way of working with sou…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…than dispassionately culling a herd to sustain the life of the poor), the Order is practicing animal “conservation” in a way that is starkly anathema to the spirit of the ancient text upon which the Latin motto is faithfully based. And to the extent that high ranking officials in the Order of St. Hubertus are also high ranking members of groups like the Safari Club (notoriously culpable in the destruction of endangered African mammals), the Order…

It’s All In Your Head: Patricia Churchland’s Touching a Nerve

By Andrew Aghapour

…ather jacket who—I don’t mean to read a book by its cover or anything—had “high testosterone, low cortisol, low serotonin” written all over him. A real sociopath type, if you ask me. My intuition must have been right, because next thing I knew he was robbing the store! Endogenous opioids flooded my brain, so I was alert and calm. “No individual undermines group solidarity on my watch!” my evolved cheater-detection module pulsed, prompting me to ch…

Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition

By Spencer Dew

…nted manifestations of culture all around them—from the tribalism of local high schools to the “human and mechanical menagerie of the funny and outlandish, mixed with the patriotic” that is the Veiled Prophet Parade. After a pirate ship tossing out a booty of candy and Shriners in minicars and men in suits blasting the crowd with water guns in imitation of a movie poking fun at conspiracy theories regarding government coverups of alien contact, th…

Newt Gingrich Visits the “Holy Ghost Bartender”

By Sarah Posner

…r and former substance abuser who now attends the River. “It’s a spiritual high I never want to come off of.” Adherents to a more orthodox brand of Christianity object to Browne’s doctrine, along with his preaching of Word of Faith (or prosperity gospel), calling their views heretical and unbiblical. Critics range from the Christian Research Institute, which aims to “provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reaso…

No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)

By Benjamin Brenkert

…their time and their talents despite the Church’s demonizing them, Jesuit high schools, universities, clinics and parishes would suffer. Consider more, the countless number of heterosexual couples that these gay Jesuits and other gay priests generally counsel and advise pastorally on how to live and be sacramentally married. Isn’t it ironic that gay men marry heterosexual couples in Church? It is sad that these gay Jesuits, including some very in…

Trump Is Out to Erase LGBT Americans from Public Life

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s favor last year. Grimm’s case was scheduled for oral argument before the high court this month, and the case had been fully briefed by the time the Court announced it was vacating the decision and remanding the case on March 6. On a macro scale, this leaves trans students, and everyone who knows or loves a trans person, still mired in legal uncertainty about which spaces trans folks may legally (not to mention safely) access. On a micro level, i…

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…theological sense of tit-for-tat justice meted out by an Abusive Father on High, but in the more progressive-theological sense of unforeseen consequences of reckless human actions. Climate scientists have said for years that global climate change will lead to increased severe weather events, and now they appear to be here; along with droughts and poor harvests caused by shifting climatic belts. On a planetary basis, we are reaping what we have sow…