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Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…ancient and tumultuous relationship with animals can, among other things, change the way we think about our “all too human” lives. This relatively new inquiry is often loosely described as “animal studies.” I will admit, I find this whole speculative and ontological debate a bit dizzying—both personally and intellectually. But I’m absolutely fixated on it. I think about it all the time. What would really happen if the abstract, theoretical line b…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…bishops speak for the whole Church, is not very helpful. I agree it would change the aesthetics, and that might be nice, but without structural change, without empowering the many voices of Catholics to speak as Catholics, replacing one small group for another, gender notwithstanding, is dubious. To answer Maureen Dowd directly, to have a woman Pope who would presume to speak for the whole Church would not be much of a step forward. One has only…

New Book on Trump and Evangelicals Gets it Mostly Right

By Greg Carey

…d sexuality. Obama’s stance on abortion could be taken as a given, but his change of mind on same-sex marriage—if it was indeed a change of mind—was an unwelcome surprise. Fea perceives attacks on religious liberty in the Affordable Care Act’s requirements concerning birth control and the Obama Justice Department’s enforcement of civil rights for LGBT persons. All of these factors motivated evangelicals to believe that they and their movement were…

The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…t backlash against voting rights, workers’ rights, LGBTQI+ equity, climate change, and secular freedoms. The Supreme Court’s Christian Nationalist agenda underscores the devastating public health and safety threat that white supremacy poses. Not only will draconian restrictions on abortion further destabilize the lives of poor and working class women of color with no safety net but they will widen the multigenerational wealth gap in communities di…

Take the Van Gogh Challenge: Doctor Who Part VII

By Gabriel Mckee

…nd no time traveler can determine the proper amount or type of meddling to change them. That’s the case in “Vincent and the Doctor.” The primary reason the Doctor and Amy travel back to 1890 is to locate and defeat the frightening creature they see in one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings. But once they arrive in the artists’ era, they can’t help but interfere—telling van Gogh, the subject of much mockery and derision in his town, that he is to be r…

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…illing is that we in Louisiana are the most vulnerable in terms of climate change,” said Len Bahr, former director of the Governor’s Applied Coastal Science Program (and veteran of five gubernatorial administrations). “Yes, the oil industry reflects an enormous part of the economy of southeastern Louisiana. So I can understand why people feel that way. But some of the people who oppose the moratorium are the same people who object to any limitatio…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…putting people over profit. A real fast is one in which you must actually change something about your life. And that’s a far heavier lift than not eating for 24 hours. Is fasting essential? Fasting from food? If you’re into spiritual asceticism. Once you get to the point of hallucination from hunger, it can be quite revelatory. But, it’s inessential in my opinion. Fasting like Isaiah? That is the most necessary task set before humanity today. I’m…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…” While Litton might be considered a more moderate option than fellow candidates, as Jill Hicks-Keeton noted recently on RD, he too espouses the SBC party line on God’s design for marriage: “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ…[and] has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household an…

Perry Gives Huntsman Best Week of His Campaign

By Joanna Brooks

…which gave him “four pinocchios” for claiming that the evidence on climate change was falling into scientific disrepute. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is on record expressing his belief that humans have contributed to global warming. And Utah governor Jon Huntsman joined him, taking a shot at Perry by tweeting: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” Huntsman’s 140-character barb was re…