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RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…s you know you are understood and appreciated. She is one of only a few Americans who truly get the Canadian picture. Last July, the Catholic University of San Diego rescinded an invitation which had been made to her (she lives in California now) to teach ecological theology part-time for a semester at the school. The provost gave in to a right-wing group which had objected to Ruether being on the board of Catholics for Choice in Washington. Two t…

How Are The Justices Hanging in the Challenge to Prop. 8?

By Nick Street

…put Obama—who supports legal parity between straight and same-sex couples but stops short of supporting gay marriage—in yet another tight spot. Will our first African-American president stick to his “separate but equal” position on gay marriage? Stay tuned……

Double Helix: Queer Science

By Arri Eisen

…o, during which 4,000 marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in San Francisco, such marriages were legal in California. As goes California, so usually goes the rest of the country—or so goes the axiom, in any case. It’s odd how science has become the ultimate arbiter in our society, how it’s taken on such power. Ironically, sometimes those who wish science didn’t have so much power give it more by facing off against it. Some creationist…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…ive producer for a PBS documentary on Graham approached McIntire and Bob Jones Jr. for interviews, both refused to comment. By the twenty-first century, Graham, well into his nineties, had outlived most of his critics and endured as a kind of iconic figure in American revivalism. His evangelistic crusades around the world, his television appearances and radio broadcasts, his friendships with presidents and world leaders and his unofficial role as…

Hagee’s New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God

By Michael Schulson

…t to use history and science to prove the existence of a Christian, pro-American God. During the eclipse of a full moon, the face of the disk turns red: a blood moon. The appearance of four blood moons in a short period of time is called a tetrad. Right now, we’re three-quarters of the way through a tetrad in which each blood moon falls on a Jewish holiday—Passover 2014, Sukkot 2014, Passover 2015, and (appearing in skies near you this September!)…

Should I Scream and Shout, Should I Speak of Love?: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 2

By Mark Dery

…mounted. —Madeline, a Bowie fan Late on the night of October 25, 1974 in a San Diego suburb hard by the Mexican border, a 14-year-old me kneels close to the TV, flicker bathing my rapt face. It’s the only light in the house. I’m watching Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, D.A. Pennebaker’s 1973 film of Bowie’s farewell performance as Ziggy, on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert—the same broadcast that’s saving the bored teenage souls of Madeline and her…

Another Guardian of Catholic Orthodoxy Accused of Protecting Sexual Abusers

By Patricia Miller

…ler and a deputy “systematically” covered up the abuse, disbanded the diocesan council to thwart outside investigation, and installed at least one known abuser priest in a parish who then committed more acts of abuse. Müller has served as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the second most powerful position in the Vatican, since 2012 and has emerged as one of the most outspoken opponents of Pope Francis’ efforts to modernize ch…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…person is a Christian, nor wants to be. This sort of thinking that every African American must be lodged in a Christian paradigm perpetuates the notion that Christianity is equated with the African-American Experience. Even a scholar like Professor Glaude, who is on one hand, critical of the megafest, etc., can’t see his own participation in the Black Church Show. Remember the “State of the Black Union” featuring Tavis Smiley? That was an eight-ho…

Rolling the Stone Away: LGBTQI Elders Meet the Next Generation of Christian Activists at a Watershed Conference

By Mary E. Hunt

…were described then) founded the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in San Francisco. Well before Stonewall, pastors there took on the police and city officials for their discriminatory behavior toward lesbian, gay, and trans people who simply wanted to have dances or go to bars to meet others. The pastors won. History records that Christian leaders were in the struggle for gay rights from the beginning—a small matter of pride given the enormi…

When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…or Michael Flynn, the 15 rallies held since April 2021 have each drawn thousands of attendees. Like “Stop the Steal” events, they tend to be foggy, distortion-infused affairs, full of dire warnings of hidden evil and worse to come. There are at least three more planned this year: one for Southern Virginia, one for Western New York, and another for the Idaho panhandle—border regions intended to draw the maximum number of attendees. Election, medica…