Believing in Tiger Woods
While Tiger Woods’ public apology offers us the chance to talk about rituals of confession and repentance, we must not forget to ask who this mythical “public” is that we hear so much about.
Shopping for Your Kids, Bioethically Speaking
Questions about the ethics of surrogacy span biology, psychology, class, and the law—and it’s not even clear where the authority to answer these questions might lie.
Tiger Woods has admitted being serially unfaithful to his wife. What does this have to do with religion? Try the themes of transgression, confession, and the institution of marriage.
The not-so-new ecumenism of the religious right: stoking fears of secularism as the new Nazism.
Not dead yet. Again.
The Institute on Religion and Democracy tells us that the ideal of romantic love is weakening the bond of marriage. Perhaps they’d like a return to the whole “women as property” thing? Or is it that marriage is solely for procreation?
Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right
Is American sexual culture schizophrenic? Yes, and this has everything to do with the sexual politics of the religious right. Sexual opportunity is everywhere, but sexual rights have, at the same time, been concretely eroded.
Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.
From essays on same-sex segregation in Orthodoxy to the Jewish case against marriage to queer theology, this collection—edited by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg—offers everything you ever wanted to know about Judaism and sexuality but were afraid to ask.
Church and State in Japan: The Case of the Yasukuni Shrine
Japan, in the throes of political and financial turmoil, is still dealing with the long-running controversy over a national shrine for WWII dead.
Worried about what the neighbors think? Egyptians now have a serious reason to.
God, My Wife, And The Government: Defining Marriage
As state laws waver on gay marriage, some conservative Christians say their status as husband and wife is compromised. Heartfelt vows, a private contract and a few witnesses are all that’s required to be married in God’s eyes, they say.
Its the Spiritual Economy, Stupid: Why the Gay Marriage Fracas Isn’t About Either
Why would Christian conservatives yoke the future of their movement to an unpopular issue?
In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press
When Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States for the first time this month, the media will tread lightly.
Will accommodation of Muslim family law unleash “brutal violence” and “polygamy” in England, as critics suggest?