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The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

By Cathleen Falsani

…eople should know better,” he told me once as we discussed what he called “wrong ideas about God.” “Christ is not an idea. Christ is a person. But ideas about him are very important. If you have a wrong idea, that stops your growth in God,” he said. “People within the church should know better and just are ignorant of the facts, no matter what you think about them. That puzzles me.” We had our disagreements, some of them quite public. Yet despite…

“What’s the Relationship of Technology to God?”: A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…hat wet DNA could not get to by itself. What would happen if the mind were wrong? You claim that part of the problem today is that we’re resisting these inevitable technological forces – things like total surveillance and networked AI. But what if we ally ourselves with these technologies based on mistaken assumptions about an essentialized nature of technology? I could be wrong. I think what’s clear is that first of all, life on this planet is no…

A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…men on their staff lead happy and healthy sex lives, and to have only the number of children they can feed, clothe, educate, and love. Perhaps I’m a romantic, but I like to think they’re actually hoping that the administration turns down the CHA’s appeal for an exemption from providing that coverage. Conscience Over the Bishop in Phoenix Let’s talk process. Catholicism has a well-developed theory about cooperating in “evil.” While I don’t for an…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…Republicans support Donald Trump’s proposal to do just that. “Why are they wrong?” Blitzer asked. The last thing Rubio, running behind Trump and new-Iowa frontrunner Ted Cruz, wants to do, of course, is tell the majority of Republicans they’re wrong. “Well, I understand why they feel that way, because this president hasn’t kept us safe,” he offered. Rubio never weighed in on the constitutional question. Similarly, Hewitt asked Cruz to specify how…

Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…eucharist. I still can’t give a completely coherent account of why that’s wrong, but it still seems pretty wrong to me. And it is an especially poignant question when we abstract from the hot-button topic of gluten to the more nebulous challenge of translating a practice across cultures. Where wheat (or wine) is unknown, choices have to be made. The Catholic Church has stuck to its guns, insisting that the elements be imported where they are unkn…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…l, emotive sense that another checklist of items would just perpetuate the wrong way of thinking, the wrong way of being. We don’t need another line, the protests seem to be saying. The kind of change we want is deeper. So, sorry, incrementalists like Jay Michaelson, we’re not going to get practical or endorse a political program. We’re going to do this deeper form of protest, because it’s a deeper kind of problem we’re up against. Sometimes this…

Could This Supreme Court Undo Marriage Equality?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…lity. And again, if you think Roberts is the liberal lifeline here, you’re wrong. He dissented in the marriage equality case when it was decided in 2015 and, crucially, it’s the only dissent he’s ever read from the bench, suggesting a depth of feeling that a few years is unlikely to assuage. Gorsuch may offer some hope, especially because he wrote the opinion recognizing that discrimination on the basis of sex necessarily includes discrimination a…

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say: God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…or efficacy rather than for accuracy, these arguments often turn out to be wrong. Last week, for example, Rick Santorum argued that same-sex marriage would be a slippery slope, because “in terms of pleasure,” polygamous marriages offered as much pleasure as gay marriages do. This strange new line of thinking presupposes that the only reason for same-sex marriage is pleasure, just as the only reasons for a homosexual “lifestyle” are pleasure, lust,…

Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

By Christopher Douglas

…Morris lying? Not really, since he really believes evolutionary science is wrong. He isn’t really or obviously insincere or duplicitous. Does he use his considerable scientific literacy disingenuously, to muddy the evidence and cast doubt on relatively accepted science? Yes—but he believes, with apparent sincerity, that this science is wrong and that his views are true. It’s not a lie if one has already convinced oneself of the truth of one’s stan…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…is fundamentally different from our own, not because Paul was ignorant or wrong, but because the widespread ancient understanding of same-sex behavior was very different from what we see today. In a nutshell, Paul in Romans 1 is condemning excess passion, and for Paul same-sex relations are merely a symbol of passion gone amok and of people who cannot control themselves—as with other vices of excess like gluttony or drunkenness. Anybody could be…