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Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…’s blind spots when it comes to women, fearing that they will perpetuate a number of injustices and lead to an exodus from the church—particularly among millennials. The forum, convened by Call To Action, Catholics for Choice, CORPUS and nine co-sponsors, was especially appropriate coming in the midst of a robust discussion of Pope Francis’ relationship to women in the Catholic Church. Writing in the American Prospect, Adele Stan argued that if Fr…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…art of the Commonwealth and frequent destinations for British tourists UK: Scholar Lectures on Queer Muslim Scholarship Samar Habib, author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations (Routledge, 2007) and editor of Islam and Homosexuality (Praeger, 2010) will speak at the University of Leicester on November 25 on “States of Being: Narratives of Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Scholarship.” Habib argues that th…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…y occupation has unfortunately tainted this term in a negative vein. In conscious opposition to hardline Islamists who have relentlessly propagated the idea that “democracy”—mired in the cultural and political baggage of the West that has historically accompanied it—is conceptually flawed and antithetical to Islamic values, some Muslim scholars have made the opposite case, drawing their arguments from deep within Islamic intellectual thought and h…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…job-creating, community-enriching enterprises in mind. A priest from an Episcopal church in San Francisco explored ways to develop a restaurant incubator in his church’s kitchen. A group of MBA students from Point Loma Nazarene University considered how to create businesses that balance material and spiritual profit. A woman from an emergent church in Boston looked for insights that would help move her church toward more intentional economic engag…

‘Heretics’ or ‘Atheists’? A Response

By Rachel Ozanne

…n family, and, despite very intense Christian devotion and deep soul- and scripture-searching, I “fell away” from the faith in my early twenties. I have been “unchurched” for about six years now and have often struggled to identify my current relationship to the Christian faith. Simply identifying as an atheist at first felt uncomfortable to me for a number of reasons. All of my family members remained Christian, so it was easier for me to tell t…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…he ideological nature of religion’s relationship to American politics, a nascent religious left will have challenges on its hands. For decades the religious left has been missing from the national political radar screen—not just because the religious right has crowded it out, but also because its own political agenda has lacked focus and specificity. An essential element of the religious right’s political success over the past quarter century has…

The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

…roversial” in Chicago with Democratic Representatives Mike Quigley and Jan Schakowsky. The doctor said she is worried about the increasing number of restrictions on abortion states are implementing. (To get a sense how women’s access to abortion is shrinking across the country, take a look at this map assembled by the Guttmacher Institute.) Twenty-four hour waiting periods, for example, can cause a woman to miss the one day a week a clinic perform…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…in the spring of 2014, when zombie courses had long been on the books at a number of institutions across the United States, in literature courses and sociology classes and beyond. Scholars like Kim Paffenroth and Kelly Baker, among others, had already firmly established the relevance and importance of studying zombies and other monsters within the field of religious studies more broadly. Yet between the excellent work of CMU’s media team and the s…

Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…eautiful little baby girl to sleep for her morning nap.” Three Guys from Wisconsin Ruins of a church in the rural foothills of the Himalayas outside Kathmandu where the Wisconsin guys brought relief supplies earlier this month. Photo from VisionNationals.org. I heard them before I could see them. One morning early on in my Nepalese sojourn, I heard the distinctly flat-accented voices of men from the American Midwest waft up from the street through…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…ates—union density hovered at around 25% in the private sector. Today that number is just 7.4%. The bargaining power and the political clout of organized labor have been effectively eviscerated. Why the drastic fall-off in union density? The standard explanations offered by corporate propagandists and neoliberal economists—technology, globalization, and outsourcing—tell part of the story but only part. The story that doesn’t get told is a bit ugli…