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Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ost obvious signs that institutional Catholicism relegates women to second-class citizenship. In the movie, many wonderful women describe their priestly vocations from childhood, their calls to ministry, and how they have struggled to fulfill them. Patricia Fresan, now a bishop with the RCWP group, speaks matter-of-factly about being a professor of homiletics in a seminary while being barred from preaching on account of her gender. She connects ap…

Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ote four years ago about one of his bills, “He wants public school history classes in Oklahoma to be live versions of Hobby Lobby’s wildly misleading July 4 ads.” Those ads were crafted in collaboration with David Barton’s disinformation mill, Wallbuilders. A virtual stroll through the Christian nationalist sausage factory that is “State Senator David Bullard’s” official Facebook page shows that he’s something of a David Barton fanboy. Barton is o…

Politicized Religion Fuels Christian-Muslim Violence In Nigeria

By Elizabeth Dickinson

…e is no greater defeat.) When a rich man skims off the top of his enormous business deal, however, he buys a new house. So too do the resources unevenly flow. Nigeria is a wealthy state; objectively, there should be no reason for the largest oil producer in Africa to be receiving any sort of development aid. In fact, however, to the vast majority of Nigerians, the government doesn’t exist. Health care, education, and infrastructure are effectively…

Cafeteria Cockroaches and Synagogue-State Relations in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…ts and hotels in Israel would not survive—they wouldn’t get enough regular business. This system controls the work week of the restaurant and hotel employees: on the Sabbath and holidays no “forbidden work” can be performed in preparation of food. (There are non-Kosher restaurants in Israel, but no non-Kosher food in the Knesset building unless someone sneaks it in!) The Knesset has three cafeterias: one serving only “milk” foods and two serving “…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…when his flock recognized members of MCC as their old classmates, or local business people, all anxiety quickly faded. Rev. Schlingensiepen couldn’t disagree more with Rev. Fred Phelps’ narrow Primitive Baptist interpretation of scripture; especially apocalyptic literature, such as the Book of Revelations where “666” is said to be the “Sign of the Beast.” Apocalyptic texts are often misinterpreted, Schlingensiepen says. Written by and for first-ce…

Yes, Virginia: There IS a War on Christmas: Its Revolutionary Meaning is Inverted in the Winner-Take-All Era

By Peter Laarman

…ready grown fat at the trough: now that’s considered efficient (in Harvard Business School terms) as it fuels the porcine spirits needed to propel a robust capitalism. Likewise, nothing brings the reality of the lives of the poor home like spending even the tiniest amount of time with people who are not making it at all: with people who are living in unheated tenements or living rough on the street. Children, for God’s sake, suffering exposure and…

Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…upreme Court ruled that creation science was a religious notion and had no business in public school science class. So, realizing that Pandas’ marketability had just taken a nose dive right into the toilet, FTE editors quickly went through the manuscript with a search-and-replace word processor option, taking out “creation science” and replacing it with “intelligent design”. Really. That’s all they did. But when the Kitzmiller legal team went thro…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…aning they have little financial means. Yet in many cases they live middle-class lives that seem incommensurate with their incomes. This is due in part to a complex network of Haredi charities and Israeli government subsidies for large families. The solution: develop Haredi communities in the territories where housing is cheap (through government subsidies), where they can maintain a lifestyle separate from secular Israel, and where their communit…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…Mormon friends from high school who went to state universities would go to class in pajamas. They would get dolled up to go out at night, but BYU doesn’t have that night culture. People don’t go clubbing; they don’t go to bars. Instead, people feel like they have to look good all day, all the time. Even for a 7 a.m. class? Yes. Walk around BYU campus and you’ll see a lot of very shiny, pretty, well-dressed, well put-together college students. It…

Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!

By Peter Laarman

…rking-class and blue-collar Americans aren’t actually speaking for working-class and blue-collar Americans. Then, with his usual acuity, Bouie drills right down to the real story of an epochal risk-shift and wealth-shift going back to the first resurgence of neoliberal thinking in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s: The student loan debt crisis has at least some of its origins in decisions made during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s to reduce state support for…