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Quiz: What’s the Most Heavily Attended Mass of the Year?

By Joseph Laycock

…as the Director of Ministry at Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco—has roamed the streets giving ashes to anyone who wants them. Not only are strangers on the sidewalk happy to be smeared with ashes and told they are going to die, but some chased Miles down to get their ashes. In an interview, Miles invokes the term “lived religion” to describe the appeal of Ash Wednesday. Historians of religion know that in practice, religio…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…ucts, Scheibeler, who had developed a business that extended from North America to Europe, South America, and the Philippines, met a number of politically powerful Republican politicians and conservative religious leaders, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Iran/Contra figure Oliver North, and then-Senator Rick Santorum. Religious leaders like Charles Stanley (a former distributor), Dr. Robert Schuller and the late Dr. D. James K…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…ernor as the running mate of possible gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This is suggested by NACL’s relationship with Sanders’ dad, former Governor Mike Huckabee. Rapert not only claims to have consulted with him before founding NACL, but Huckabee has also spoken at the two NACL conferences, serves on the advisory board, and even made a promotional video for the inaugural conference in 2020. As important as Huckabee’s blessing may be,…

Baldwin Brother’s Apocalyptic Comic

By Gabriel Mckee

…e most complex thing about his preachy book The Unusual Suspect are his truly nonsensical extended metaphors. (The one about the football field, the pit bull, the steak, and the herd of cattle—that’s a doozy.) BOOM! will be releasing a preview book at Comicon San Diego later this month. In the meantime, they’ve released the preview issue’s cover and a sample page, which suggests that the book will start involve with some heavy Katrinasploitation….

Outrage Outs Closeted Pols Opposed to Gay Rights

By Nick Street

…rusader for transparency when it comes to some of the murkiest spots in American culture: where powerful institutions control the mechanisms that shape our collective understanding of sex and sexuality. His Academy Award-nominated documentary Twist of Faith tells the story of a firefighter struggling with the aftereffects of his boyhood abuse by a Catholic priest. In This Film Is Not Yet Rated, he examined the Motion Picture Association of America…

“Like sunshine in the darkest abyss I’ve ever experienced.”

By Joanna Brooks

…s week. The Family Acceptance Project (FAP) is led by Dr. Caitlin Ryan of San Francisco State University, whose work developing materials to improve health and reduce suicide and drug use among LGBT young people by supporting their families has been recognized as a “best practice” by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. FAP has developed materials in collaboration with and specifically for LDS families; you can find them here. “Familie…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…we’ve seen over the past few days are bound to recur. One thinks of the African-American protests in 1968 (and we tend to forget the hundreds of nonviolent protestors killed by government forces just weeks before the Mexico City Games began). We think of boycotts in Moscow in 1980, and Los Angeles in 1984, and the debates roiling as we speak. The simple fact is that religious rituals, events, and religious symbols are powerful magnets for intense…

Communication v. Excommunication: Catholic Women and the Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…would make relations between the two churches difficult. The University of San Diego recently offered a prestigious chair in Catholic theology to eminent Catholic feminist professor Rosemary Radford Ruether, only to withdraw the offer under pressure from those who would question Ruether’s Catholic bona fides. Dr. Ruether is a prolific Catholic scholar who writes in support of many of the issues that the Vatican fears most: women’s ministerial lead…

Of Values and Viruses: The Challenges for Obama’s New Global AIDS Coordinator

By Ariana Childs Graham

…HIV/AIDS epidemic for over 25 years. He has served as medical director for San Francisco General’s AIDS clinic, Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, Deputy Director to the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and since 2001 has been CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, among other roles. And while the consistent thread through these roles is a dedication to add…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…they’ve remained connected to some form of Christianity like Green, or left it altogether, matters not just for the future of faith in America, but also for the future of American democracy….