Religion Dispatches
…Rev. Welton Gaddy, host of State of Belief radio, interviewed RD’s Neil J. Young on his most recent post, Leave it To Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old. Watch the interview below (just under 20 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=AQgtTjiEujE…
Read More…tewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Gaywatch – Peter Vadala & William Phillips<a> www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Anyway, for his stance, Phillips has been invited to be the grand marshal of the Fayetteville Gay Pride Parade, according to On Top Magazine. And he and his parents have accepted the honor. But some “social conservatives” (i.e. bigots) are railing against it, calling it “child abuse.” From On Top: Bryan…
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…saying “Happy Holidays” that they can’t help but resort to hyperbole so bizarre that you can’t tell if it’s parody or not. It’s this perennially aggrieved attitude that allows a writer at Breitbart.com to claim that the decision of a massive privately-held corporation (normally the heroes in conservative morality-plays) indicates that “Starbucks Red Cups Are Emblematic Of The Christian Culture Cleansing Of The West.” That at this very moment ISIS…
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…. The Catholic social tradition’s commitment to workers’ rights inspired Cezar Chavez, Dorothy Day, The Solidarność movement in Poland and countless others to struggle for “bread and freedom.” Building on Pope Leo’s defense of workers in the late nineteenth century, Pope John Paul II argued in his 1981 encyclical on human labor that all workers have the right to work, a just wage, form unions and strike, a safe working environment, parental leave…
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…afraid of. Before 9/11: Remembering our Visual Cultures of Death Barbie Zelizer has investigated issues surrounding journalistic images of death better than anyone in recent years. From her books on photography and the Holocaust, to the JFK assassination, and on to 9/11, Zelizer has continually demonstrated the ways images affect a collective consciousness. Remembering to Forget, for example, shows how photography became the medium of collectiv…
Read More…et it from clergy in the pulpit, many who are trained up in conservative seminaries that do more indoctrination than theological training. Or, for many more conservative congregations, the clergy are not trained in any seminary, but are raised up from the congregation and recognized for their “call.” They also get it from organizations like Focus on the Family that reaches more than 220 million people in 155 nations (according to Focus’ own number…
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…larly interact with your child. As the secular movement continues to organize and institutionalize, it is building more of the kinds of communities that support families in similar ways as religion has. Existing studies of religion’s benefits also don’t adequately sample secular families. They typically compare people who are highly engaged with organized religion with those who are less engaged, ignoring people who have replaced religion with som…
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…didate, Harvard University islamicate.com +Ali Eteraz author and columnist www.alieteraz.com +John Renard, Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology, Saint Louis University +Dr. Robert Traer Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA +M. Brett Wilson, Department of Religion, Duke University +Danielle Widmann Abraham Doctoral Candidate, Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School +Rachel Woodlock Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Islam and the Mo…
Read More…. While most readers are no doubt familiar with Phelps and his brand of crazy, the Citizen Media Law Project has a good overview of the case here, which is still worth reading and is guaranteed to infuriate anyone with a beating heart: The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist Christian church that contends that God kills soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality and for the presence of gays in t…
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