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Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás

By Daniel Schultz

…gh participation rates are increasing among these types of churches, they represent a small percentage of all churches. Fulton explains that a lot of this increase is due to the debates over immigration reform; but even factoring that in, Hispanic churches are becoming more politically active. The number of congregations might be few, but they may also be larger communities, representing a substantial number of people. In any case, the trend will…

With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson

By Chrissy Stroop

…ghly demonstrates at The Conversation, official government economic data obscure the harsh realities millions of Americans face, with the costs of critical necessities disproportionately burdening the people least able to afford them. Unsurprisingly, 2024 voting patterns reflect the resulting discontent: According to the exit poll data, Kamala Harris won among families who made less than $30,000 in 2023 and those who made more than $100,000. By co…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…icine, the education system, or denominational leadership. Chmielewski’s description of herself in signing her online writing, “Homeschooler, Homebirther, Homechurcher,” is an apt summary of the lifestyle: one of deeply interwoven home industries, where a family is reliant on itself to as great an extent as possible, but ultimately always reliant on God. As Chmielewski wrote on her blog, “God never meant for man (Pregnant Women) to surrender himse…

The Dirty Little Secret of Every Ponzi Scheme, or: Bernie Madoff’s 150 Year Sentence

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nd not asking any questions about how it works or whom it hurts. When we discover that a system was actually a scheme, then we cry “Foul!” Bernie Madoff’s amorality is clearer now, and it is astonishing; the losses to individuals and to the confidence that our financial system requires are equally profound and much of this seems beyond current repair. Yet it is unclear to me whether justice was served in Manhattan when a septuagenarian was sentenc…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…evolution is incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” a significant number of evangelicals are working to convince their fellow believers of their compatibility. Their efforts are evident in the increasing number of books, conferences, and organizations—such as Francis Collins’ BioLogos—that have formed around the topic. Cracks are likewise showing in what once was understood as a unanimous and uncritical evangelical support of Israel as ep…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…groups” opposed the measure and protested outside the legislative session. Scotland: Church of Scotland allows ministers to be in marriage with same-sex partner In a compromise, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland voted his week to maintain its position that marriage is between a man and a woman, but also to allow congregations who feel differently to appoint a minister who is in a marriage with someone of the same sex. Italy: Civil uni…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…appoint representatives on this occasion to go to Edinburgh in 2016.” The Scottish Episcopal Church has taken its first steps toward permitting same-sex marriage with a preliminary vote of its General Synod. Meanwhile, in the first quarter of the year, after marriage equality went into effect at the end of December, one in eight marriages in Scotland were same-sex couples. According to the Daily Record of Glasgow: “Of 3,889 marriages in Scotland…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…and help readers and viewers form their own opinions. If the issues are obscured, no such process can play out. A little practice with Catholicism would go a long way toward improving press coverage of smaller, less well known groups. Second, if the American press cannot handle its responsibilities with regard to Catholicism (which is well known to many of them), how can we expect them to be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i fait…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…part by some of the literature in the Quiverfull movement, it’s also reminiscent of some fascist iconography and that ideology’s preoccupation with population and breeding. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are a lot, but right now, Ellen Willis’ Beginning to See the Light or Mothers in the Fatherland by Claudia Koonz. I had the privilege of studying with Ellen Willis before her death several years ago,…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…ups, such as Toronto-based Salaam and US-based Al-Fatiha, and by a growing number of Muslim scholars in order to push back against the most conservative Islamic voices and open a space for Muslim gender and sexual minorities. The Internet also provides a vital resource for LGBT Muslims seeking to develop and put forward their own religious perspectives about same-sex desires and identities. Where Leviticus is concerned, only anal sex between men i…