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Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…rime is committed, not by a professional criminal, but a weaker man, who must restore the stolen goods plus at least an equal amount, the potentially habitual criminal is to be executed as soon as he gives plain evidence of this fact (Deuteronomy 21:18-21 – see also Proverbs 30:17).. …In Deuteronomy 19:21, the general law of justice is stated: the punishment must fit the crime; there must be a comparative restitution or death. Or more recently Rec…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ional Day of Prayer may not be appropriate or Constitutional, but it fails most because, as a civic and as a spiritual event, it’s about as culturally relevant to the developing mainstream of American believers and non-believers alike as a National Day of Butter Churning. If religious leaders hope to influence the spiritual lives of believers and seekers, they are woefully misguided in hoping that some sort of nationalized authorization of a tradi…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Indianapolis this week, the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori invited the Church to “take a flying leap into the future!” It was perhaps an unfortunate Freudian misuse of a colloquialism that generally means something along the lines of “piss off,” which Jefferts Schori mixed with invitations to “step out there on this narrow ledge of safety”—images which, however much the denomination’s presidi…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…n the country without documentation. We’ve been asking that question for almo*]}*st 15 years now. We have a three-part question asking: Should we offer them a path to become citizens provided they meet certain requirements? Should we give them some other kind of [immigration] status even if we don’t grant them citizenship? Or should we identify them and deport them? The general population number is about 60-40: a little more than six in 10 Americans […

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…gious preference or affiliation; by 2014 this statistic had increased to almo*]}*st 23 percent. And younger adults are more likely to say that they have no religion than their parents or grandparents’ generations. Many church leaders are concerned about their losses and what in their view will result in a general decline in social and personal morals. Others rationalize their losses as essentially a culling of the religious herd. Now, they say, we’re…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…40%). Six-in-ten younger Catholics say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared to half of older Catholics. Younger Catholics are more pro-government than any other religious group, with two-thirds preferring bigger government with more services, compared to 41% support among older Catholics. Younger white evangelicals strongly oppose abortion rights but are less conservative and more supportive of same-sex marriage than older evan…

How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…ndering whether coming here was such a good idea. I have written about the most emotionally fraught chapters of Jim Domen’s life in a column for the New York Times. I did it not to invade his privacy but because by his own account those intimate details are part of what define him as the public figure that he is. Still, as I take in the glow of the late-afternoon California sun reflecting off the Home Depot across the parking lot, I’m on edge. Did…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…-turner of a study of the incidence of allegedly gay, sexually active, but most of all duplicitous priests in high positions in the Vatican entitled In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy opens another vista. Report of the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, under investigation for molesting a government staffer just surfaced. In fact, all of that data was part of the backdrop of the meeting, but no one pee…

Economy Yields Too Few Prophets

By Peter Laarman

…t has been carefully hidden from view. In the case of credit cards, it’s almo*]}*st as though the fate of the card holders is a sideshow: it’s the fate of the lenders we should care about. Our bottom line, in other words, is whether our stock portfolios and retirement accounts and home equity stakes are reviving. That’s what the journalists who feed us this stuff care about; that’s what the politicians care about; and so that is what we should care ab…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…escribed in articles V and VIII; To determine matters for discussion at least six months before the Synod is to meet, if that be possible; To see to it that the material to be discussed is sent to those who ought to be concerned about the discussion of these matters; To set the agenda; To preside over the Synod personally or through someone else. In other words: the pope is clearly intended to preside over the content and conduct of the synod. The…