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What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…those who hate fags, overtly or covertly, to understand that they need to change. Certainly a fantasy, but one that our civil religion depends on: educability. And if you want to check out some of the wonderful real-life-not-fantasy anti-Westboro picketing ever, click here and add them to your picketing, fantastical or real. In my fantasy, the family and friends of Devin Snyder understand those called to protest against Phelps in Cohocton as ac…

Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…fellow clergymen and forced several Chilean bishops to resign. Francis can change his mind which is hopeful with regard to other issues. Unless one knows better in advance, it would be easy to conclude from the film that there are just a handful of Catholic women in the world. Several have been tapped for Vatican posts; for example, Barbara Jatta, is the Director of Vatican Museums. But in extensive footage filmed around the world, a viewer can co…

New York Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ways figured out, have no intention of changing their views – even if that change comes with a party and a cake. This is exactly the moral of Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son – an invitation to change not just our worldview, but our thinking on how God works in the world. When the younger son returns home — that sinful younger son who squandered his inheritance and did unspeakable things in pig sties – the father throws a huge party for him. The…

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

By Paul Wallace

…ed out that arguing doesn’t change people’s views: “Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories…” This seems true to me, but I found myself wondering if a scientifically-motivated atheist would feel the same way—I have long suspected that some atheists may be ill at ease with stories. Before I say why, I need to say a few words about Johnny Cash, who died on September 12, this week, eight years ago. Why Johnny Cas…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…hink the role of knowing our past contributes or contributed to the social change we’ve seen in the past few decades? Do you see your book as having had a role? What do you make of that as a historian? I think that knowing our past is crucial to understanding the present as well as bringing about social change. In the years immediately after my book came out I was often on the lecture circuit about it. On several occasions women in the audience ap…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…can have influence,” she says, “is if Catholics sitting in the pews demand change. It’s time for the Catholic laity stand up and demand that the Church truly embody the teachings of Jesus Christ in protecting children.” She sees that as unlikely to happen between now and when the College of Cardinals meets in March to elect a new pope, especially in a Church that “evolves in geological time.” Pope Benedict, Casteix says, “offered empty promises an…

Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point

By Jorge A. Aquino

…matters of gender, sex and family. I want to note that I’m cheered by the change in tone augured by Francisco’s leadership. He’s done much that has moved me personally—sometimes deeply. Francis has made it abundantly clear that he is not going to promote division in the Church by supporting the old politics of thinly-veiled homophobia and misogyny that accompanied so much previous episcopal politicking on matters of sexuality, gender, and the fam…

With Creation of Little Noticed Department, Pope Francis is Securing Liberal Reforms

By Cormac Shine

…se who oppose his reforms, and to emphasize the necessity of institutional change if the Church is to successfully adapt to the contemporary world. Indeed, without significant institutional change, the next pope could easily reverse Francis’s cautiously progressive tone, as swiftly as he himself wiped away much of the bitter taste of the austere Benedict XVI’s difficult pontificate. An insightful New York Times article in November highlighted how…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…d to convince them to allow that to happen! Did that lead to a large scale change in the way that women were perceived in Pashtun society? No, probably not. Did that perhaps lead to a small, tiny change? Hopefully yes. If we leap forward to what’s happening in Egypt and Tunisia, women have participated in very large numbers. I think it’s been a very positive development and I think they will form the bulwark against a regression on women’s right…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…ot fun. It is, frankly, terrifying. That’s not to say that realities can’t change. Mine did. But few individuals can be argued out of an entire worldview. Realities shift when ideas bloom and ideas are slow and patient, creeping in through unguarded portals and establishing themselves without much fanfare. However well-intentioned you are, bludgeoning people with fact after argument after fact will only entrench them in their position and reinforc…