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Pastor Dan addresses the Religious Left with suggestions, words of caution, a plea for compromise and a more broadly-conceived coalition than any to date.
Op-Ed: Why is My Life Still Up for a Vote?
Gay and Lesbian people are weary of being used as a political and spiritual football, tired of being kicked around. This election brought history-making moments for progressives, but some crucial setbacks for the rights of gay citizens.
Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion
Catholics have often been urged by their clergy to be single-issue voters when it comes to abortion. But the tide has turned, and this year a much broader social justice agenda is guiding these voters.
For a good feminist “lesbian” must always trump “gay” in the alphabet soup of acceptance and tolerance.
The Very Idea of “Gay Church”
The impulse to minister to the homosexual community of L.A. led to a new kind of Christian church—the MCC—committed to inclusivity and undoing the old divisions incised across Christian history.
RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy
His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.
The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life
Who is that tattooed, pierced kid with the pink hair and the “You Will Not Mock Our God” T-shirt? How confusion about evangelicalism has obscured the Catholic influences of pro-life youth.
The United States has exported its contradictory and confusing HIV prevention strategy to Africa: Abstain, Be Faithful, Condoms (ABC). Herewith a modest proposal to reconcile Christianity, identity, and HIV prevention...
While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn't end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.
Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church
In which our columnist suggests that the Church adopt a scheme of numbering to refer to its various arguments against homosexuality. It would be more efficient, certainly, given that these arguments are continually invoked. But why the incessant repetition?
Small Town Spirituality, Big City Hate: For those with ears to hear it, Sarah Palin's speeches echoed the work of Westbrook Pegler, a mid-century Rush Limbaugh, and then some....
Sarah Palin and the Clarence Thomas Factor
Feminism is not simply about getting women into positions of power, it is a commitment to change the world—and female anatomy does not a feminist make...
Op-Ed: Bishops vs. Catholic Politicians
Nancy Pelosi was denounced by Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals for deviating from their line on "pelvic issues," a common criticism from the Church hierarchy. Bishops and cardinals may be pastors, administrators, and lobbyists, but they're no theologians...
Like Bush in 2000 Sarah Palin is delivering a clear message to conservative evangelicals, who get her call for women to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands', fathers' and pastors' authority...
Op-Ed: McCain's VP, Sarah Palin, and 'Feminists for Life'
Joining John McCain on the Republican ticket for the White House is Sarah Palin, a proud member of the anti-choice Feminists for Life; who are they and what do they really support?
Gay Marriage: Religious Right Cranks Up the Fear
California's Proposition 8 would overturn the state's Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage — right wing religious groups are girding for the battle they are calling "the Armageddon of the culture war."...
Dissident UCC pastor apologizes to Catholic Church for his co-religionists' role in gay-friendly, women's ordination...
Straightening Up Cardinal Newman
Cardinal John Henry Newman, England's most famous convert to Roman Catholicism, is on his way to sainthood. Is this why the Vatican is preparing to move his grave and separate him from the friend he requested to be buried with?
RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity
Bestsellers by the stars of conservative media were found amongst the belongings of the Knoxville killer. Here is a plea for sanity to the author of “Let Freedom Ring”...
Communication v. Excommunication: Catholic Women and the Church
Do bishops have too much time on their hands?