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NPR Largely Misses Critical Distinction on Religious Freedom vs. LGBTQ Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ted and a correction has been added. — eds However well-intentioned, NPR’s latest foray into “religious freedom” falls victim to several false equivalencies and ends up leaving the reader/listener vulnerable to the problematic arguments of those pushing for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people. Over the past week, NPR has aired at least five stories exploring the current state of LGBTQ rights as they pertain to trans students, residents,…

What Should the Vatican Say to the (Last Generation of) Nuns?

By Peter Manseau

…arley, the theologian and former Yale Divinity School professor who is the latest target of the Vatican’s crackdown against members of the religious communities that once built, staffed, and embodied the spirit of the Church in America. Coming as it does in the wake of the rebuke delivered last month to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the censure of Sister Farley’s book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, is enough to…

RDPulpit: Religious Right Censors Austria’s Gay Jesus

By Kittredge Cherry

…eedom of speech in other countries. The recent Austrian controversy is the latest battle in an ongoing war over queer Christian art, some of the most dramatic cases of which are documented in my book, Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More. The brave, visionary artists who portray the gay Jesus face censorship, hate mail, violence, death threats, and/or vandalism that destroy their work. Many are accused of blasphemy as religious freedo…

Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

…y long list. Curious to see how the Trump demographic is responding to the latest scandal, I took this opportunity to survey my Facebook “acquaintances,” mostly consisting of those I grew up and went to K – 12 school with in rural northwest Oklahoma. These are folks tailor-made for the Trump demographic: white, living in or close to the hometown, Christian, and angry in ways they themselves find difficult to specify (although the frequency of thei…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

First, a spoiler alert of sorts: the “half” in S. Brent Plate’s latest book is us. That is, the seeking, incomplete human body. Plate, a longtime RD writer and Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, contends that religion is a physical activity, the spiritual experienced through our senses. And each of those five other objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread—have a sensory component. (You can read an ada…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…inhuman and degrading punishment.” And there is some possibility that the latest version of the bill does not include the capital punishment provision, though Peter Montgomery’s sources indicate that it does. As Timothy Kincaid notes on Box Turtle Bulletin, however, none of this means that the Vatican opposes criminalizing homosexuality, only “cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment” for same; indeed, it opposed an earlier European Union move to…

Is the “Catholic Vote” a Thing?

By Sarah Posner

…On the latest installment of my bloggingheads program, I talk with Grant Gallicho of Commonweal magazine about the Catholic vote. Do Catholics vote as a bloc? No. So why do we keep talking about the Catholic vote? Watch: Plus: a Catholic critique of Paul Ryan’s economic policy….

Magic v. Science: Doctor Who Part III

By Gabriel Mckee

…n find them streaming on Netflix) — ed. Joseph Laycock_______________ This latest Doctor Who episode contains several elements for vampire aficionados. The vampire aristocrat Rosana Calvierri is apparently based on Elizabeth Bathory, the historical “blood countess” of Hungary, who would have been twenty years old in 1580 when the episode is set. Bathory was accused of murdering young women and bathing in their blood, just as Calvierri preyed on th…

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is No Joke

By Cavan Concannon

…anceled the project after a number of its Christian authors protested. The latest iteration of the GBUSA still includes Greenwood’s endorsement, but in addition it now has the dubious honor of being “the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!” While neither the former president nor any of his various corporate entities actually produced the GBUSA, his endorsement seems to have come with a price. His “name, likeness and image [are used] under paid…

Accept Gays? Only If They Know Their Place

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ians crushed and torn by religious hatred in his review of the book in the latest issue of The Christian Century. As an evangelical Christian whose career has been spent in the South, I must say I find it scandalous that the most physically and psychologically dangerous place to be (or even appear to be) gay or lesbian in America is in the most religiously conservative families, congregations and regions of this country. Most often these are Chris…