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Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…t on his back, his glasses askew. My aunt, a nurse, performed CPR. The oldest tried to staunch his father’s wounds with paper towels. But Bart was already dead. *** I got to know my uncle’s killer, Jim. He’s a chatty, earnest, sometimes flirtatious man with twinkly blue eyes. He studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student with the original hope of becoming a doctor—a profession Jim’s parents, a Marin County, California lawyer and a nu…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…t like 2002’s Nemesis, the villain happens to be from a disheveled Romulan star system and has a personal bone to pick with a member of the Enterprise crew. As far as I can tell, the politics is pure Bush-era—where conflict isn’t even about politics to begin with so much as petty private vendettas between megalomaniacal men. And though I shudder at the comparison, James T. Kirk’s ne’er-do-well youth and obsession with unilateralism is eerily famil…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…to keep Jones from inciting a riot, I guess, by outraged Muslims. What’s most disturbing about the case was that Jones was locked up, not because he was suspected of committing a crime, but because he refused to promise that he wouldn’t go near the mosque. (Hey Wayne County, thought crime, much?) The ACLU submitted an amicus curiae brief to the 19th District Court in defense of Jones’ right to protest, which says, “If the First Amendment has any m…

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the White House within a week. UPDATE: Another womens’ rights advocate tells me that she has “no reason to think” that the Obama administration feels it “owes” the Bishops for health care refo…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…with its sin of annexation/ and sale of native civil rights,” the song insists, against Hawai’ian music so sweetly melodic that tourists are unable to hear it as tears. Certainly the world leaders did not. Neither, beyond a few curious glances, did the they seem much to register the low-key grand finale of the set: a 45-minute rendition of his recently released anthem in support of the Occupy Movement, “We Are the Many,” sung after Makana went sub…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…the relativistic individualism you critique? I love the wisdom of your question. Listening to what I’ve been saying you could ask, “Should we trash every tradition and belief every chance we get in the name of growth?” Well, no. That becomes a dogmatic practice in and of itself. The question [is whether a person] allows themselves to have a renewed perspective of their common traditional belief—if not then that’s where we’re challenged. Ultra Spi…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…erals and Democrats trying to pass “socialist” health care schemes as a first step toward a totalitarian fascist society. The scapegoats lower on the socio-economic ladder are immigrants, community organizers, and Muslims. Last fall in Boise, I ran into the Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President of the Interfaith Alliance, of which I am a card-carrying member. Gaddy is a Baptist of the old school, which means he is faith-centered and believes in both…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…would be an understatement, but it was something. He began to make it a custom to stay after class and talk to me, giving me some weird tracts and finally asking me, straight out (as it were): “So, you’re not straight, are you?” I told him I was not. And then he shocked me once again when he said, “Y’know, I didn’t want to take this class, because I don’t care about religion. But, when I came in here on that first day, I thought, ‘Great, a damn r…

Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees

By Sarah A. Bowen

…s Pope Francis consider the cost of raising a child, which may not be realistic for some couples just trying to get by. The average cost of raising a child in the U.S. through age 17 is estimated at over $200,000. This is well out of reach of many couples. So are the resources or funds to go through the complex adoption process. Further, many couples are rejected when trying to adopt. The Pope’s suggestion that if a couple can’t have a child, they…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…unday Boston Globe. Romney’s campaign, Kranish writes, “made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes, that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.” To wit: Team Romney was (as we all knew) far too timid in telling the candidate’s personal story—especially his faith and his service in his faith community. Team Obama ha…