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Despite Excommunication, Door to Women’s Ordination Not Closed

By Roy Bourgeois

…o abuse their power and oppress others, but from the oppressed themselves. Change will come—not from the top down, but from the bottom up. At the core of the crisis in the Catholic Church today are men who claim that only they can know the will of God. And the God they tell others to worship is effectively male and heterosexual. Most young Catholics are leaving the Church because it is anti-women and anti-gay. If the Catholic Church does not chang…

The End of the Beginning: The Coming of Egypt’s “Wise Men”

By H.A. Hellyer

…then suddenly appeared yesterday to add yet more pressure on the regime to change. This council of ‘wise-men’ are in an interesting situation. They have the clout, it is believed, to be able to come to an agreement with the regime that those protesting against the regime would accept. Moreover, and the regime probably realises this too: they have the ability, to come together as a collective force that can call for the biggest protests yet. The id…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…e. There’s room to disagree about what would constitute justice in American economics—perhaps public servants will need to reduce their expectations in a period of national austerity—but it was good to see Americans doing something other than waiting for the world to change. It’s only a start, but if we can also remember, as we set national policy, that we were once religious refugees, hardscrabble pioneers, and many waves of tired, poor, huddled…

Mormon Missionary Service: Now with More Service

By Holly Welker

…hree years ago and was adopted about a year ago in Dallas and Denver. This change has become necessary because the church has finally realized that tracting did not work, both because people are less often home during the day and less willing to let strangers into their homes when they are at home. As a returned missionary who did her fair share of tracting, I’m also very pleased about this change. Knocking on doors that, more often than not, no o…

Conservative Christians Get in Touch with Feminist Side in Islamophobia

By Julie Ingersoll

…ntalists took control of the Southern Baptist Convention and Mohler had a “change of heart.” No matter that the change served his political interests and came at great cost to many women who believed they were called to Southern Baptist leadership, to the men who supported their callings, as well as to the families of those women and men. Mohler writes about the social impact arising from the disproportionate numbers of males and females. Citing a…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…couples who married abroad. Kenya: Court orders registrar to register name change for five trans people A court ordered the Principal Registrar of Persons to register legal name changes for five transgender people. Peru: Marriage equality legislation introduced Marriage equality legislation was introduced on Valentine’s Day Japan: New film featuring transgender character ‘breaks boundaries’ in Japanese cinema A new film by Naoko Ogigami, “Close-Kn…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…rend or may find it politically inconvenient, but their discomfort doesn’t change the reality. Turning a blind eye to the theocratic implications of the NAR’s theology of political power is of a piece with earlier denials of the existence or significance of Dominionism. These denials had partly to do with the role of Christian Reconstructionism (the Reformed movement led by 20th century theologian R.J. Rushdoony) in providing a theological rationa…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…that the non-evangelical Protestant numbers are looking pretty good for a change. Talk about this and offer any insights you have about what’s going on. Is it just that the more conservative older ranks are thinning out? Well, we’ve now got two years of very interesting data. We’d like to have three or four years, but still, we see this slight uptick among white people who self-identify as non-evangelical Protestants. And even measured in this wa…

“They Have No Intention of Changing”: An Interview with Sex Abuse Expert on Pope’s Fierce Defense of Accused Bishop

By Evan Derkacz

…n from these panels (I stepped down from the Diocese of Orange Lay Review Board in 2002). Survivors have stepped down in dioceses across the country, the National Review Board, and now the Pope’s own commission. Nothing is going to change. They have no intention of changing. It’s all window dressing. It’s up to Catholics to speak with their wallets if they want to take back their church and for survivors to change the law in order to get justice a…

High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…o be bending too far in one direction. Scientists are human. We’re slow to change, we have our pet theories. We’re not Mr. Spock. Our expectations are shaped by how we want things to turn out. That’s one of the reasons for the peer-review process. I’ve heard the idea that science advances generationally, that ideas change when one generation who expected them to turn out one way dies out. We need more respectful discussion. You know, when I read…