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The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…to ignore the challenge of our age. Another outgrowth of the Enlightenment, too, is the historical-critical scholarship on the Gospels. How much was that a part of your process? Not much. I revere that kind of scholarship, and I looked at it just to make sure I wasn’t being a jerk, but it wasn’t feeding the appetite I was interested in. It wasn’t explaining the ridiculous powers that this character of Jesus has. Why is he such a hit? People went…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…s a race-conscious update to the anti-abortion message. Since late December, a number of anti-abortion organizations have made public and prominent hires of activists who frame their anti-abortion work in such terms: Pro-Life Unity hired a vice president, Samuel Mosteller, from the ranks of the “black genocide” faction of the anti-abortion movement; Georgia Right to Life announced the hire of Catherine Davis to lead outreach to African Americans b…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…tions Board numbers (which surely underestimate the magnitude of violation), 27,000 workers had their workplace rights violated in 2006; many of these were fired outright for union activity. 44% of workers who do win union representation never get to a first contract because of employer stalling and other chicanery. According to a Cornell University study, 92 percent of private-sector employers use closed-door “captive audience” meetings to snuff…

Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s expose of how the case was being taught at Liberty Law School. According to the lawsuit, “Lisa Miller’s attorneys Mathew Staver and Rena Lindevaldsen also routinely instructed their Law School students that the correct course…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…ms about dealing with black leaders such as Papa Doc Duvalier or Siad Barre, or, for that matter, more mainstream American leaders such as Andrew Young. He recognized their power, and was willing to deal with them as equals. Mighty white of him.) To Diane’s point that the press is keeping the religious right alive: I’d say the media is keeping it under wraps, by reporting on stylistic changes and the broadening of the religious right’s agenda as a…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…fic memories. “I saw chemical burns, as well as perforations of the bladder, vagina, uterus, and rectum. Some women came in with overwhelming infections or in septic shock.” These are just a fraction of the horrors from the world that Comstock made. In curtailing the information about and access to reproductive health care, misinformation and predacious entrepreneurs thrived. Women, desperate and afraid, availed themselves of unvetted information…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…ther infallible nor irreversible, Pope Paul VI stunned the world on July 29, 1968, when he reaffirmed the church’s ban on modern contraceptives in Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life). He declared that “each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.” The pope had deferred to a dissenting minority report prepared by four conservative theologian priests on the commission that maintained cont…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…ng Faith and Politics After the Christian Right (Princeton University Press, 2008), political analyst E.J. Dionne Jr. argues: “The religious winds are changing. Over the last two decades, and especially the last few years, we have witnessed a great commotion over religion and politics… The era of the Religious Right is over.” Dionne’s argument exemplifies recent elite-level discourse about the impending or current demise of the religious right. Ot…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…c worlds that crowd our television screens, movie theaters, and book stores, or, perhaps more traditionally, the apocalypse associated with the Second Coming. Think of the 2011 Family Radio Billboards: “He is Coming Again! May 21, 2011.” Or the tongue-in-cheek bumper sticker: Jesus is Coming, Look Busy. During the last week of January 2015, police in Utah concluded their investigation of the September deaths the Strack family in Springville, Utah….

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…llions of Americans accept young-earth creationism. Books written by Morris, Ham, and their ilk fill shelves at Christian book stores and are widely used in churches and parochial school. Christian radio and television stations reach the uttermost ends of the earth with creationist programming, such as Ken Ham’s popular “Answers in Genesis,” which is heard on over 500 radio stations in all 50 U.S. states and over 20 different counties. Ham’s minis…