a review of religion and media
“The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
This month: Editor Kali Handelman interviews Ann Neumann
about her new book, The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in American. Continue Reading →
From Rev. Dr. Maria LaSala’s post, “Mary’s Choice: What the Annunciation Story Tells Us About Moral Agency”:
The angel waited for Mary’s consent. And then we hear that Mary chooses to say yes to the angel’s invitation.
Newsweek‘s religion editor, Lisa Miller, contributes to the recent conversation about Sarah Palin’s “feminism,” but instead of parsing definitions (see also here and here for that), Miller tells us why evangelical women see Palin as a saint: they hunger for a contemporary role model. Miller opens the article with a recount of Palin’s Trig story as told in Going Rogue:
For a split second, Palin—already at the limits of her time and energy—stops to consider the chaos another baby will create in her life. These are really less than ideal circumstances, she thinks. And then the inconceivable. I’m out of town. No one knows I’m pregnant. No one would ever have to know.
Should Gray Davis be allowed to take communion? Some conservative Roman Catholic leaders say no, but not because they’re stumping for the Austrian Oak. Rather, they’re part of a “social Continue Reading →