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The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls

By Frances Kissling

…ad paid for by Catholics for Choice and published in the New York Times on October 7, 1984, Catholics (including 24 nuns, 2 priests, and 2 brothers) ran under the headline “A Diversity of Opinions Regarding Abortion Exists Among Committed Catholics” and argued that Catholic politicians who disagreed with the official position should not be punished. Signers included nuns who were members of the National Coalition of American Nuns who had come out…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…ion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World Tom Holland Basic Books October 29, 2019 The Declaration’s unambiguous charge that King George was “unfit to be the Ruler of a free People,” likewise leaves Barr unfazed. So much for Federalist Society allegiance to originalism, I suppose. But why does Barr seem so allergic to congressional—conciliar—authority? Why is he unable to let go of fealty to The Strong Leader, no matter that The Declarati…

Image of Hubert Aiwanger, Bavaria's deputy premier speaking at a podium.

Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…should be over. Aiwanger, Bavaria’s deputy premier, has had an astonishing number of scandals come to light about him in recent days—each of which is so horrifying that any on its own should be enough to result in Aiwanger’s immediate resignation. Or at least, that would be the case if Germany were truly serious about “never again“; if it were a country in which far-right views were shunned. First, an antisemitic pamphlet, cruelly mocking the vict…

Ex-Mormons Shouldn’t Proselytize Mormons… Really?

By Holly Welker

…must therefore be persuaded to accept the truth the believers possess. The October 2013 LDS General Conference included a talk by Dallin H. Oaks entitled “No Other Gods.” Oaks asserts that “we offend God when we ‘serve’ other gods—when we have other first priorities.” Dismissing the priorities of others as ‘false gods” offensive to the real God one imagines one worships is not an attitude that shows respect to others. It does not allow one to dema…

Fight the Tower: Protests Continue at Union Theological Seminary

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…s even blamed it for the decline in church attendance: “The decline in the numbers of people going to church in this country in mainline Protestant communities is in part a symptom of the ways in which capitalism has gutted our value systems so that people no longer even imagine the need for communities of moral formation and faith.” But since the project became public in October Jones has gone silent on theology. When she did talk about God to th…

Anglican Church To Install First Female African Bishop

By Elizabeth Drescher

…, the Rev. Margaret Vertue, who was elected to the Diocese of False Bay in October and will be consecrated in the new year. Christianity in much of Africa, including its Anglican expression, has traditionally had much ambivalence toward women in ordained ministry and church leadership. Of the seven Anglican provinces out of thirty-eight that do not ordain women, three are in continental Africa. Another two African provinces ordain women only to th…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…ding God in the World, A Spiritual Revolution Diana Butler Bass HarperOne (October 8, 2015) Bass seeks out God in soil, water, sky, and in fellow human beings and their communities. “A shift in our conception of God is at the basis of a cultural reorganization, a cultural rebirth, and I think we’re actually fighting in our culture about God,” she says. “It’s not really about politics. I think we’re really fighting about God. I think that Glenn Bec…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…s exhumed the graves under the supervision of an Israeli archeologist. The number of skeletons taken out of the site numbered between one thousand and fifteen hundred. According to Gideon Sulaimani, an archeologist who worked at the site before the court injunction went into effect “They call this an archeological excavation but it’s really a clearing-out, an erasure of the Muslim past.” In 1984, George Orwell’s great satire of totalitarian regime…

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…for the sake of argument. (For what it’s worth, my new book, coming out in October—God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality—does just that. So I’m a little invested in the idea.) First, we don’t need to “win” on the clobber verses—we need to tie. I agree that nobody will ever “win” on the definitive reading of Romans 1:26. However, many LGBT people (and allies) have put forth plausible, close readings of it, as well as Leviticus 18:22 an…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…cial media. The restaurant quickly “got hundreds of death threats on their phones and social media.” Then a North Carolina man decided to investigate the pedophilia ring himself, bringing an assault rifle that he fired in the restaurant. (No one was hurt.) As the man later explained about the absence of child sex slaves there, “The intel on this wasn’t 100 percent.” As we’ve moved from an election dominated by fake news to a new Trump administrati…