elections

The arrest of a woman for praying at the Western Wall was a lost opportunity in last night’s debate.

Quick, what organization was founded to support justice for immigrants, boasts nearly two million (all-male) members, and loves a good parade? The Knights of Columbus still support immigrants’ rights, but those sober-faced men marching down Main Street in full parade regalia are also part of an organization that was the single largest donor in support of California’s Proposition 8. As it turns out, this venerable fraternal order has taken up the anti-equality baton in a big way since then.

Obama’s economic framing throws him off religious freedom track.

Ladies, start your binders.

By tracking the way Jesus Christ has been rendered through the American racial imagination—actually lining up all the evidence, from Puritan witch trial transcripts through stained glass windows through contemporary movies—Paul and Ed give us a new place to start a national discussion about who owns the image of God. That discussion has been going on, as The Color of Christ demonstrates, in communities of color since the early nineteenth century, if not before.

The latest bloggingheads.

It’s being widely reported, but there’s just one problem… okay, two. There are at least two problems…

On the vice-presidential debate.

How to interpret the Family Research Council’s Catholic Voter Guide.

Sentimentality has a body count.