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Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…an perspective” on LGBT rights and that demanding tolerance is a front for promoting “homosexual values.” Finally, let’s consider fundamentalist Good News Clubs, which are presently in well over 3,000 public elementary schools around the country. Good News Clubs, which are sponsored by an organization called the Child Evangelism Fellowship, are ostensibly after-school “Bible study” programs that require parental permission to join. But that descr…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ue as abusers and actively covered up the Church’s protection of them. The list is long of those within the Roman Church who have been aggrieved by what many have seen as Pope Benedict’s actions to roll back the reforms of Vatican II. Representatives of the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR) declined to comment for publication on Benedict’s impact on communities of Catholic women religious who faced intense scrutiny—some would say persec…

“Papers Please”: The Legal Battle Over Church Sex-Abuse Files

By Omar Shamout

…’s no central repository, even in the Vatican… where you can go and find a list of all the Catholic Church abuse files from around the world,” Clark said. “With the Mormon Church, everything that happens goes to Salt Lake.” The problem is those documents aren’t discoverable in court. The LDS Church maintains it does not keep records of child abuse. Plaintiff attorneys have been unable to convince courts that the Church’s disciplinary documents fal…

Mark Driscoll Hate-Tweets as Pope Benedict Flip-Flops: This Week in Religion and Social Media

By Elizabeth Drescher

…essible to reason and thus common to all humanity. The Church’s efforts to promote them are not therefore confessional in character, but addressed to all people, whatever their religious affiliation. “In social networks,” says Benedict, “believers show their authenticity” in a variety of forms, including through self-identification as Christians and through the witness of their enactment of Christian values in the ways they communicate with others…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…omething about Kubota’s story leaves me unsettled. Call it my inner rationalist or my inner existentialist. Call it what you like, but I’m wary of a scientist who harbors (and who publicly exposes) such passionate feelings about something like immortality. There’s something a little madcap about a science that gets biological with its immortality. I’m a little uncomfortable about what this does to (and with) our actual world. What is biological im…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…of massive change, both progressive and regressive, in global Islam. This list, in links and headlines, just skims the surface—but every one of these topics bears watching in 2013. 1. A US Army report confirms over 1,000 copies of the Qur’an and other Islamic Sacred Texts Burnt in Afghanistan by the US military. 2. YouTube Video “Innocence of Muslims” ignites protests in the Muslim world setting deep divisions between interfaith communities and l…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…whether God has been “allowed in our schools” or not. In fact, below is a list of school shootings from K12 Academics, all of which took place prior to “the removal of God” from our schools: 1700s • The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and kille…

Pope Francis and the American Sisters

By Mary E. Hunt

…n the friendly but still largely cosmetic changes he has instituted. Gradualists will disagree with me, but I think it is time for Catholics to grow up and realize that royalty does not become us. The Church is a service organization whose primary stakeholders are people who are poor. Their needs, and not the whims of pampered prelates, are the priority. Nothing less is acceptable. Raise the bar for heaven’s sake. Second, on things that enthusiast…

Check Your Caller ID, Jesus Is Calling

By Sarah Posner

…u have to have the time and endurance for more than three hours of A and B list celebrities talking and praying and singing, but you could be rewarded with hearing Pat Boone clumsily recite prayers in Hebrew, or a shofar blowing by Rabbi Neal Surasky of Chosen People Ministries, which is all about “proclaiming the Good News through Jesus the Messiah to Jewish people around the world.” (I was late, so I missed the latter, but I suppose that’s what…

Has This Anti-Muslim Extremist Reformed… Or Just Gotten Less Extreme?

By Nathan Lean

…g on. He must believe that once he’s no longer with the group, people will listen to him. Heck, they may even buy his “I was once an anti-Muslim extremist” book (which happens to fit well into the growing niche of the “I was once a Muslim extremist” category). Two serious questions remain for Robinson and for Quilliam, which facilitated his departure. First, will Robinson’s message really change? Just because he’s no longer with the EDL and claims…