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Archive: July 11, 2010 - July 17, 2010
Vatican issues new sex abuse rules; still too weak, victims say
Ordination of women subject to same punishment as sex abuse of clergy
By William Wan | July 15, 2010; 11:30 AM ET | Comments (42)
Is God a Republican?
God has been speaking mostly to Republicans when it comes to the call to serve in public office.
By Elizabeth Tenety | July 14, 2010; 3:58 PM ET | Comments (170)
French burqa ban, Iranian mullets: Faith and the fashion police
What not to wear in France and Iran: In the French example, the government seeks to keep the sacred out of the secular; in Iran, the religious government wants to keep the secular West out of its Islamic state.
By Elizabeth Tenety | July 13, 2010; 2:59 PM ET | Comments (84)
Murder in the name of honor and caste
Social groupings are as old as human civilization itself, but so is the perversion of these groupings into stratifications and hierarchies.
By Aseem Shukla | July 12, 2010; 10:01 PM ET | Comments (29)
Three "wise" women will change the Supreme Court
Women don't "own" being wise--and not all women's life experience has made them wise. But perhaps one of the reasons the biblical figure of Wisdom is personified as female is that women have not had much access to power and privilege in human history.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | July 12, 2010; 4:44 PM ET | Comments (16)
Mel Gibson: Religion and the troubled artist
Indiscretions and worse often color the lives of Hollywood celebrities. But how many become notorious after making a globally-distributed testimony to their religious faith?
By Gustav Niebuhr | July 12, 2010; 2:38 PM ET | Comments (118)
