Jennifer Butler, Executive Director of Faith in Public Life, on Immigration Reform
July 23, 2010
By Michael Sean Winters and Jennifer Butler
National Catholic Reporter

The question: What will it take to get immigration reform passed this year, and what are the prospects for passage?

VIDEO: Faith At The Gulf
July 23, 2010
By
The Huffington Post

The first in this series of five video reports focuses on the historic Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, MS, and its executive director, Rev. Shari Prestemon. Founded by the United Church of Christ in 1922 as a social justice ministry to serve the local shrimping families, the mission played a significant role in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Now Biloxi and its shrimpers face a new threat to their livelihoods and way of life -- oil pollution in the waters of the Gulf.

Traditionalists "Not Giving Up" in Women Bishops Row
July 12, 2010
By Robert Pigott
BBC

The Church of England's ruling synod is due to return to the women bishops debate, with little chance of major concessions to traditionalists. Little remains to limit the power of women bishops in the legislation under consideration on Monday. But objectors say they have not given up trying to gain exemptions from serving under women bishops. Proposals to create a class of male-only bishops to oversee traditionalist parishes were rejected on Saturday.

Is Kagan’s Jewishness Being Used Against Her?
June 30, 2010
By James D. Besser
The Jewish Week

A Jewish community divided over key constitutional questions is watching closely but mostly silently as a hyper-partisan Senate debates President Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to succeed the retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — and as hints that the nominee’s Jewishness is being used against her surface.

A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians
June 25, 2010
By Susan Henking
Religion Dispatches

Fifty years ago this Sunday, feminist theology of the second wave was born. Well, maybe not born—but it made it into Time, under the headline “Religion: Male and Female Theology.” Yes, Monday, June 27, 1960. The cover picture: US Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II. Here’s how the article opened:

VIDEO: Daisy Khan on the 'Divine Hand' at the Mosque near Ground Zero
June 24, 2010
By Karina Ioffee
The Washington Post

Plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks have touched off a firestorm among New Yorkers nearly a decade after Muslim extremists linked to al Qaeda slammed planes into the World Trade Center.

Rape Victim Apologizes to Church?
June 22, 2010
By Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune
Faith Trust Institute

That’s right. In 1997, a fifteen-year-old girl was raped (allegedly) by Ernest Willis, an adult church member. As a result, she became pregnant. She was instructed by her pastor, Chuck Phelps, to come before the church, confess, and apologize for getting pregnant, and then she was kicked out of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord, NH. The rapist came before the church and apologized for being unfaithful to his wife.

Saint Sarah
June 11, 2010
By Lisa Miller
Newsweek

To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image.

Polygamy Controversy Presents Dilemma for Post-Christian France
June 8, 2010
By Hilary White
Life Site News

When a Muslim woman was fined late last month in Nantes, France for driving while wearing a full face veil, the issue of polygamy burst into the spotlight when it was revealed that her husband had three other “wives.”

VIDEO: Mary Karr Interview
May 27, 2010
By Judy Valente
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

MARY KARR (speaking to students): Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it. JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: Mary Karr talks about her love of poetry with students at a writers’ conference in Michigan. KARR (speaking to student): Hello, honey-bun.