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Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…sured Merritt the blog would be fully under Merritt’s control. “Within six months,” Merritt says, “people really began to take notice” of his blog, and it soon became RNS’ “number one traffic generator,” and remained so for the duration of Merritt’s time writing at the site. Problems began to arise in 2017, still during Socolovsky’s tenure as editor, when Merritt began to notice missing payments. Earlier this year, Merritt asked to talk to Gallagh…

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…l elections of 2006, however, there was a notable shift as Catholic voters moved back towards Democrats by a 55 percent to 45 percent margin, according to National Election Pool exit polls. In this year’s race between the Democratic Party’s Sen. Barack Obama and the Republican Party’s Sen. John McCain, it appears that Catholic voters will once again up for grabs. A recent study by Georgetown University’s The Center for Applied Research in the Apos…

The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…s Latter Day Saints to highlight, bookmark, and search the entire canon of Mormon texts. Billed as “the perfect companion to your Halal digital lifestyle,” iSalat allows Muslim users to calculate the proper prayer times, wherever they may travel. One of the many available Jewish scripture apps, iTalmud gives the user access to the entire Babylonian Talmud in the original Gemaric Aramaic and Hebrew. The iBlessing and Parveometer apps, meanwhile, ca…

Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…ith Action Network and new chapters of Catholics for Marriage Equality and Mormons for Marriage Equality. Both groups marched in Seattle’s Pride Parade last Sunday, and had representatives at the coalition’s first “people of faith” phone bank on Tuesday. Religious volunteers, they believe, can sway values voters by sharing personal stories about their own faith journeys toward supporting marriage equality, gay relatives and friends, explained Andy…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…aring the story, she returns home, opens Google India, and tracks down the phone number for the sweet shop her grandfather mentioned. Within seconds, she has called the store on her smart phone, and Yusuf’s grandson—who answers—has likewise opened Google to research visas for a reunion too long denied. We can understand the implications of this storyline by putting it into conversation with its longer historical context. The logic of the plot—that…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…s, Jews and Christians gathered at West Angeles Church on the eve of Sukkot. It’s just really beautiful.” In the broader faith-based activism that is providing energy for California’s leadership in criminal justice reform, Hoover said he sees a collective commitment to “humanizing more people.” “The heart of the matter is building a more inclusive society,” he said. “Changing the story about people who are incarcerated changes the story about ever…

DC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church

By Patricia Miller

…e portal (ReportClergyAbusetoDCOAG.com) to accept abuse complaints, and on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu announced the establishment of a hotline and email address to collect reports of abuse by clerics of any faith. Also on Wednesday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced that he had opened an investigation into clerical sexual abuse in that state, citing the recent grand jury report in Pennsylvania as h…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…aid they were reading the book and laughing out loud, so apparently it has moments of humor or at least delight. I assume that some readers will feel suspicious, disturbed or angry. Independent Catholicism is a very new concept for most people, and it will provoke the gamut of reactions. What alternative title would you give the book? I really wish I’d thought to put “sacramental justice” in the subtitle. Ah, well. How do you feel about the cover?…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…murdered by a shotgun blast through the window of his study at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The crime was never solved. • December 12, 1935, New York City, New York. Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide. • April 27, 1936, Lincoln, Nebraska. Prof. J…

Canadian Courts Consider Decriminalization of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…tional reference case to determine whether a small group of fundamentalist Mormons living in a remote B.C. community called Bountiful may practice religiously-motivated plural marriage without fear of prosecution or conviction. Before a courtroom packed with legal experts, scholars, civil libertarians, and child rights advocates, justices initiated groundbreaking legal processes to determine the constitutionality of section 293 of the Canadian Cri…