Better No Father than a “Father” Father
When a handsome, mustachioed Franciscan offers you his own special brand of “marriage counseling” Run as fast as your little Catholic legs can carry you @news The post Better No Father than a “Father”...
View ArticleThat Anglican Divorce Thing (Again!)
Your Holiness, we didn’t see this one coming— Anglican congregations are divorcing—amicably! They’re all “No thanks, Rome, we’re cool. We’re even praying for each other.” We know, Your Holiness. They...
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Reverend Billy’s Un-Wedding Album
On Valentine’s Day 2010, over 50 straight couples gathered in the snow in front of the Bethesda Angel in Central Park for a mass Rev. Moon-style ritual of Unmarriage. Led by activist and performance...
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Aharon Friedman: Messiah Stopper
What’s stopping the Messiah from coming? It’s you, Jewish husbands who refuse to give your wives “gets” and thus create agunots—women who are legally divorced but cannot marry again in the Jewish...
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Falling Up
For all the wondrous devices Thomas Edison created, he wasn’t particularly good at predicting their uses. The kinetoscope, one of the world’s first motion picture viewers, was originally designed to...
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Possible Future Child-Slavery Plans
“… minutes after witnessing the marriage of his 15-year-old daughter in Nevada, the 41-year-old Oler collected a 15-year-old bride of his own and took her home to Bountiful.” (source) Warren Jeffs,...
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Prince William Ate My Religion
Lookalikes of Kate Middleton, Britain's Prince William and Queen Elizabeth stand outside a church during a media event in London. From Reuters. It’s royal festivity time, back in my enchanted homeland....
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The Gospel of Primordial Androgyny
The international press is buzzing with news of a purporte buy cialis online uk d ancient Coptic fragment in which Jesus speaks of “my wife.” Professor Karen L. King of Harvard University announced...
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Over the Rainbow
Photo by Verónica Capriglioni. It was one of my first evenings in Buenos Aires, on a reporting trip in May 2011 to cover the relationships among religion, politics, and LGBT rights leading up to and...
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The Pope and Selfishness: Contradictions and Fictions
It was a record-scratching, “hold up, wait a minute” moment a few days ago when Pope Francis, who had just a couple of weeks back told Catholics that they don’t need to “breed like rabbits,” followed...
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