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Can Mormonism Save Mitt Romney’s Campaign?

By Joanna Brooks

Time magazine’s October 8 “The Mormon Identity” cover story on Mitt Romney (complete with an image of Romney as a stained glass window) brings the spotlight back to the candidate’s religion after a month of news cycles dominated by unfolding “catastrophes” in his campaign. And it’s no surprise, really. Where better to go than faith for a little warmth and inspiration in what has been a rather flat and grinding 2012 campaign? The candidate may hav…

Satanic Temple Organizing a Rally for Religious Liberty

By Joseph Laycock

…create a message of religious pluralism rather than religious monopoly. In October 2016, TST’s Lucien Greaves travelled to Little Rock and attended a meeting of the Arkansas State Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission to discuss bringing Baphomet to the capitol. The commission treated the proposal seriously and actually discussed possible locations on capitol grounds where Baphomet might be installed. A public hearing for further discussion of the m…

Jack Ryan Uses Bible to Exonerate Wall Street, CIA

By Erin Runions

…of the older Jack Ryan series—based on Tom Clancy novels like Hunt for Red October—Shadow Recruit uses an all new screenplay by Adam Cozad and David Koepp. Still, the film is highly reminiscent of the earlier series’ conservative patriotism, and Clancy’s avowed “God and country and family” Catholicism. As the story goes, Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is a covert CIA financial analyst who uncovers a Russian terror plot to blow up Wall Street and destroy t…

Eight General Seminary Professors “Resign” Without Their Knowledge

By Anthea Butler

…r what the real reasons are for taking such a drastic move. GTS has sold a number of properties in recent years: the grand entry to the seminary that faces Ninth Avenue is now a hotel. Dunkle was hired in the hopes of rebuilding the financial base and stabilizing the seminary, but that has not happened. Now, he is jettisoning the faculty with the approval of the board. The crisis has even brought out Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (who…

Zen and the Art of the Sex Scandal

By Gary Gach

…dhism will take hold in the West. Meanwhile, the evolution is interesting. October of last year saw women ordained as Theravada nuns (bhikkhunis) in Perth, Australia, for the first time in that lineage since the 13th century. (What took them so long?) Ramifications of the ensuing controversy will continue to ripple; that is, the ultimate significance resonates beyond themes of gender alone, embracing social, cultural, and political issues, as well…

Staged Pussy Riot Trial Interrupted by Russian Authorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…significant Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and who was freed on appeal in October, was among the performers. Marking the one-year anniversary of the performance that got her arrested along with Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova—both of whom are still serving time in penal colonies—Samutsevich has recently declared that she has no regrets. The interrupted performance serves to illustrate how the original Pussy Riot incident, covered here…

Bloody Religious Conflict on the Way Out?

By Ira Chernus

…as an enormous and growing impact on world events. Yet Wolfe says that the numbers point in just the opposite direction. This is welcome news to me, not only because I would like to see religion serve as a force for peace, but also because, for years now, I’ve been starting off my intro course on religion and society with Peter Berger’s classic book, The Sacred Canopy. In that book Berger asserts the secularization hypothesis as incontrovertible f…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…ic and colonialist talking points in its response to the Hamas attacks. On October 28th, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced Bible passages in which God promises and enacts a total annihilation of the Amalekites—every man, woman, and child: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. …. And we are fighting our brave troops and combatants who are now in Gaza … this chain of Jewish heroes, a chain that……

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…try calling for the closing of the SOA and for the ordination of women. In October of 2011, I joined an international delegation of women’s ordination leaders going to the Vatican. We met with Church leaders, delivering a petition signed by 15,000 supporters of women’s ordination. We showed the documentary film Pink Smoke Over the Vatican at a nearby theater, and we maintained a vigil in St. Peter’s Square, holding banners that said: “ORDAIN CATHO…

‘Amazing Grace’ from Both Sides Now

By Peter Montgomery

…as even sung at the iconically counter-cultural Woodstock festival. Today, October 15, 2013, the history and lore of “Amazing Grace” grew a little stronger and stranger as it was deployed by both the architects and opponents of the government shutdown. More than 70 clergy and other people of faith gathered at the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday morning for an interfaith “Pilgrimage for Courage and the Common Good,” organized by Faith in Pu…