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Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…’s blind spots when it comes to women, fearing that they will perpetuate a number of injustices and lead to an exodus from the church—particularly among millennials. The forum, convened by Call To Action, Catholics for Choice, CORPUS and nine co-sponsors, was especially appropriate coming in the midst of a robust discussion of Pope Francis’ relationship to women in the Catholic Church. Writing in the American Prospect, Adele Stan argued that if Fr…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ous,” Gupta pointed to the fact that the latest DOJ memo “creates funding priorities that can result in a resetting of priorities about who’s getting money, what programs are not getting funded anymore, [and, for example,] whether an LGBTQ social security recipient is going to be able to access their benefit, if the clerk at hand has got an anti-LGBTQ belief based on their religion. And so that can have very dire consequences on real people’s live…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…be noted that, as the Times and others have noted, the order effectively prioritizes Christian refugees by giving priority to “minority religion[s].” Trump may relish in the fact that for his followers he’s taking action, but this gesture is empty. Muslim bans and immigrations freezes will not make the United States safe. Terrorism is the act of the socially alienated and politically desperate and unless the conditions that produce terrorism are…

A ‘Pro-Life’ Buttigieg Ambush, Trump’s Corrupt Counsel, and More

By Daniel Schultz

…r been as grifty a customer as Sekulow. But he’s been no less a culture warrior for conservative evangelicals, and no less a stout defender of Pres. Trump. This does not sit well with everyone: The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is looking for venues in London and Liverpool for Franklin Graham’s upcoming UK tour. Management of ACC Liverpool said Jan. 24 that it was dropping plans to host a June 12 Graham event, citing a number of statements…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ity, access to education, etc. So, for instance, investors might support a number of projects through MicroPlace, an online micro-financing subsidiary of PayPal, with investments of as little as 20 dollars that help low income entrepreneurs in Texas, women merchants in Azerbaijan, the rural farmers of Cambodia, and so on, earning a return of 0.5% to 4.5% over 2-3 years. Not bad. Really? As a person of faith, am I supposed to be earning even nomina…

A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ese Americans with no historical ties to Orthodoxy, became a majority in a number of Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States and brought with them their cultural baggage—most importantly the Culture Wars. The changes were obvious and immediate, both in traditional Orthodox countries and in the diaspora. Of course, Orthodoxy has never been gay-affirming (despite John Boswell’s eloquent but unsubstantiated claims) and abortion had been cause for…

LGBT Christians Respond to Southern Baptists’ Call For Kindness, Understanding

By Mike Greer

…Moore and other conference leaders appeared to be caught off guard by the number of LGBT Christians and supportive Christian advocates, some Baptists, who not only attended the entire conference, but also respectfully and publicly responded to Moore’s call to kindness and understanding and offered to meet with conference leaders at the venue. Although there were evidently no face-to-face meetings with Moore, about a dozen LGBT Christians and LGBT…

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…ng funny without offending someone these days in our PC society etc.” The number of supportive and sometimes racist posts outnumber those who advice caution. I can’t suspect such hideous posts are all from Saddleback membership. I’m sure quite a number are. It’s as disturbing as it is disgusting. Warren commented on Tsang’s article, “Thanks so much for teaching us! It was removed instantly.” However, Warren did not get around to posting a form…

Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

By M. Sophia Newman

…ey are “Bengali” illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh. While the number “969” is derived from Buddhist concepts, the movement appears to rely on economic anxieties, rather than religious philosophy, to incite anti-Muslim sentiment. While some monks have called the 969 movement a fringe group, anti-Rohingya protests have drawn hundreds of monks in capital city Yangon in the past year. Burmese dissident Maung Zarni has called the movement…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…gious groups or private psychotherapeutic settings throughout the modern period have not yet, under decompartmentalizing impulses of postmodernity, been restructured into wider fields of social practice? Empirically speaking, we simply cannot say whether religion in itself has some special set of attributes that protect adherents from mental distress or if these qualities have tended to be culturally assigned to religious settings that are now inc…