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The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…ald Reagan, comes from a letter he wrote on the ship Arbella just before coming ashore in New England. This letter was not a document touting the religious freedom and democracy the new colony would soon enjoy, but a description of the Puritans’ covenantal obligations to God and the wrath they could expect from this God if they disobeyed his strict and holy will. Moore worships the same God. He was removed from the Alabama bench twice during his c…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…appen to be Jewish, as “self-hating Jews,” which is just how Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Obama confidantes David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. But that merely reinforces the sense that Jews are surrounded by enemies, victims of a hatred that seems to have no end, and (once again) powerless. Netanyahu, doing little to cloak his status in this vicious spiral of insecurity, told a meeting of EU ambassadors that “Israelis are n…

The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…igion—ritual, pilgrimage, belief, community, mythology, scripture, relics, miracles, and liturgy. And for millions of Deadheads, the Grateful Dead experience feels like religion—it does the work of the sacred in their lives—by embodying the core experiential aspects of religion, such as consciousness, mysticism, creativity, meaning, purpose, identity, transcendence, and prophecy. In this regard, the members of the Grateful Dead are not prophetic i…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…experimenting with ways to approach the issue. One sees, in the Talmud and midrashic (homiletic) sources, the rabbis basically riffing, or jamming. You know, “What if we thought about it this way? Hey, what would happen if we thought about it this way?” That’s really the spirit of The Passionate Torah—a playground of sorts, a way of experimenting with the questions and issues at hand in the hopes that something new and exciting will result. The ac…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…hich is resisting efforts to expand legal protections for LGBT people; Queiroz wrote recently in RD about the selection of an anti-gay Pentecostal minister as the head of the Brazilian House of Representatives’ Human Rights and Minorities Commission. *The above article originally indicated that a screening took place at IHOP. The screening took place in New York City, though a couple of leading figures of IHOP were in attendance. RD regrets the…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…stating “Jesus leads us toward the courage not allowing oneself to be intimidated by the petty gossip of dominant opinion.” I beg to differ, but this sexual abuse scandal is not petty gossip. It is hardcore fact. In another case, almost at the Vatican City doorstep, students from another school of the deaf in Verona, Italy are speaking out about their abuse. Alessandro Vantini described the sodomy he experienced as so brutal and relentless that h…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…[The] same applies to all western nations. Whites who are already a global minority must be reduced to a minority in their own countries…what diversity ultimately means is fewer Whites. It very well may mean no Whites. These White nationalist talking points drew widespread controversy when they were uttered during a panel at the first NatCon in 2019. At the time, statements like Azerrad’s were mostly confined to relatively fringe alt-right podcast…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…ty brings a balance back to medicine,” she said. The fight over whether terminally ill people can take their own lives has attracted religious heavyweights. The Roman Catholic Church leads the fight against the practice, and many major denominations are following. Even now, months after physician-assisted death became legal in Washington State, patients have trouble finding doctors who will write them a prescription for lethal drugs. A central Was…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o Marry reiterated. No study is ever perfect, and Gartrell acknowledges limitations in her study, including the fact that the families who participated are a nonrandom sample. Such limitations were understandable in the 1980s when the study began since “ the targeted population was largely hidden because of the long history of discrimination against lesbian and gay people, so the possibility of recruiting a representative sample of prospective le…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…r Francis pick, Bridgeport, CT, Bishop Frank Caggiano, for chair of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, which is responsible for promoting the church’s teaching regarding hot-button issues like family and contraception (or the lack thereof). Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield was elected as the conference’s new general secretary. NCR’s Winters, who has been an outspoken critic of the increasingly culture-warrior posture of the USCCB st…