Daily Links: Today’s Soap Box
What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week. Continue Reading →
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Daily Links: Today's Soap Box
What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week. Continue Reading →
Daily Links: Brave Old World Edition
What we’re consuming. Continue Reading →
Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession
By Kathryn Joyce When devout Christian families made it their mission to save children from war-torn countries, the match was often far from heavenly. Continue Reading →
Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession
By Kathryn Joyce When devout Christian families made it their mission to save children from war-torn countries, the match was often far from heavenly. Continue Reading →
Schradle's Links
Nathan Schradle They might be downers but they’re good downers. Continue Reading →
Schradle’s Links
Nathan Schradle They might be downers but they’re good downers. Continue Reading →
Daily Links: “Which Reminds Me” Edition
Hear Kathryn Joyce, The Revealer’s former managing editor, talk about personhood bills, the Quiverfull movement, and the patriarchy movement here, on Tulsa public radio.
Nicole Neroulias writes at The Scoop that despite common reporting, same sex marriage is about a lot more than religion.
Yesterday the USCCB spelled out exactly why they are opposed to the Obama administration’s provision of birth control to all insured women without a copay. The Church would strongly prefer to tell employers and employees, at least the ones that answer to Catholic leadership, how to manage their reproductive rights. If the issue were just money (no Catholic money used to “subsidize” contraceptives), the compromise that Obama and Sebelius struck with insurance companies–that companies will provide contraception to individuals directly, without implicating the employer–would satisfy the USCCB. It doesn’t. Which reminds me, will Kathleen Sebelius still give the graduation speech at Georgetown University?
The Economist follows up on a May 6th New York Times feature about “The Life of Jesus Christ,” a play performed by the inmates of Angola prison in Louisiana, with an article of its own. The New York Times used the title, “In Prison, Play With Trial at Its Heart Resonates,” The Economist, “Enacting forgiveness and redemption.” Both remind me of the brilliant piece by Liliana Segura at Colorlines last year, “Dispatch From Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison.” Continue Reading →
Daily Links: "Which Reminds Me" Edition
Hear Kathryn Joyce, The Revealer’s former managing editor, talk about personhood bills, the Quiverfull movement, and the patriarchy movement here, on Tulsa public radio.
Nicole Neroulias writes at The Scoop that despite common reporting, same sex marriage is about a lot more than religion.
Yesterday the USCCB spelled out exactly why they are opposed to the Obama administration’s provision of birth control to all insured women without a copay. The Church would strongly prefer to tell employers and employees, at least the ones that answer to Catholic leadership, how to manage their reproductive rights. If the issue were just money (no Catholic money used to “subsidize” contraceptives), the compromise that Obama and Sebelius struck with insurance companies–that companies will provide contraception to individuals directly, without implicating the employer–would satisfy the USCCB. It doesn’t. Which reminds me, will Kathleen Sebelius still give the graduation speech at Georgetown University?
The Economist follows up on a May 6th New York Times feature about “The Life of Jesus Christ,” a play performed by the inmates of Angola prison in Louisiana, with an article of its own. The New York Times used the title, “In Prison, Play With Trial at Its Heart Resonates,” The Economist, “Enacting forgiveness and redemption.” Both remind me of the brilliant piece by Liliana Segura at Colorlines last year, “Dispatch From Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison.” Continue Reading →
Daily Links: Briefly
Don’t miss in media res‘ fantastic series of events, “Religious Representations on Television,” from today through Friday. See here for details.
Kathryn Joyce, The Revealer‘s first managing editor, interviews David Clohessy, national director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) on the Catholic Church’s new tactic for silencing the group in court.
Rick Santorum pals around with a preacher who thinks non-Christians should get out of the U.S.
Scott Korb, our former books editor, writes at The Chronicle of Higher Education about the first Muslim liberal-arts institution in the U.S., Zaytuna College:
Not a Muslim myself, nor a believer in any appreciable way, I’ve spent much of the last 18 months with these scholars and their students: at a venerable mosque in Brooklyn and a storefront mosque in Oakland; at fund raisers in Washington, D.C.; New Brunswick, N.J.; New York City, and throughout the Bay Area; in online forums and open houses; in classrooms and in the basement of a Roman Catholic church; and in Muslim community centers located in low-rent business parks. When I asked Sheik Hamza recently whether he was surprised to see his name in the [NYPD surveillance] report, he said no. Although he added, “A lot of these young Muslims born here are not always aware of the history of real persecution of other communities. They would do well reading more history.”