https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ordination of women and lgbtq+ people en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/03/correction-sbc-does-not-oppose-womens-ordination-just-women-pastors Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations director that I had made a fundamental error in my Feb. 27 article about the SBC’s recent disfellowshipping of five churches over the role of… Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:46:26 EST Caroline Matas fbb4829c-c1ad-44bb-b207-747c866b0a6c https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/21/popesplaining-women-remain-strawberries-franciss-book-happiness As we inch toward Christmas, it’s no surprise to hear that Americans are miserable. Any amount of time spent in line at a Target as the holiday approaches will swiftly reveal that we’re a mess. Not only has our happiness… Thu, 21 Dec 2017 03:57:07 EST Kaya Oakes 9529f61c-d041-4acb-b7a0-b91679bd89f1 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/24/marginalization-tim-keller-when-anything-short-adulation-oppression “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Fri, 24 Mar 2017 02:51:28 EDT Anita Little 8f1577e5-2f3c-4e17-9571-ca659c11149f https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/17/pope-francis-has-painted-himself-corner-women-deacons Be careful what you wish for. Tue, 17 May 2016 04:38:05 EDT Mary Hunt 951b924d-3a37-40d3-9f45-210578251a70 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/17/female-deacons-pope-francis-walks-it-back-women-clergy-weigh The recent flurry of headlines over the possibility of women deacons in the Catholic church may be good for news, but it’s also good for a question: what does women’s ordination really mean today, at a time when more and… Tue, 17 May 2016 01:17:27 EDT Kaya Oakes 38d11870-5834-4798-9af5-10923b3ddff7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/13/why-conservative-evangelicals-wont-let-us-pee-peace Whenever you think about the principled Southern Baptist leaders opposing the ascension of America’s Problem Child to the GOP presidential nomination, think of this paragraph from an NPR report on Evangelicals and the shifting social scene: For Albert Mohler, president… Fri, 13 May 2016 01:03:24 EDT Daniel Schultz 2529796d-7550-41cf-bf7b-4bc0d391c5b7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/01/should-barbie-get-her-feet-washed-church Did it strike anyone else as odd that the Vatican announced that women could have their feet washed on Holy Thursday the same week Mattel announced three new Barbie sizes ( and a number of other variations) for its iconic… Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:54:12 EST Mary Hunt d78876bd-36bc-449d-922e-f2c11250e8c1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/23/womens-equality-church-no-longer-negotiable It Is not the nuns’ problem, but everyone’s. Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:17:43 EDT Mary Hunt 37438754-91b8-46da-9cc6-910bd5f014a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/22/episcopal-church-driving-drunk For many of her critics Heather Cook’s crime spree began with her ordination. Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:38:28 EST J. Terry Todd 054a071c-4af4-4841-ad1a-afcfd6fc47bf https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/21/right-wing-morality-costing-church-england-dearly At last. The Church of England’s General Synod has voted to allow women bishops. A disastrous failure to do so in 2012 preceded Rowan Williams’s departure as Archbishop, and led to huge public and political pressure to secure the “Yes”… Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:26:15 EDT Linda Woodhead 89691571-3dc2-4b82-8290-4cb1249ff0b3 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/18/female-bishops-church-england-good-step-its-just-step The Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, said that Monday’s decision to permit female bishops in the Church of England was “a moment of joy,” but that: there will be those within our body who will be hurting as a… Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:25:34 EDT Jacqueline Small 29467a23-128c-4717-b045-3c6128de6a77 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/28/catholic-church-ordained-women-can-do-it-again An essay ignored by the Vatican since the 70s, translated into english for the first time, shows that the Catholic Church can ordain women. Wed, 28 May 2014 01:34:09 EDT Phyllis Zagano 0e371262-7c6a-427c-b144-50d4fda89153 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/04/01/again-vatican-punishes-gender-equality-more-swiftly-sexual-abuse A Franciscan peace activist is removed from public life as a priest for celebrating mass with a woman. Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:24:51 EDT Patricia Miller 86314d41-da27-4335-9abb-25fd577da6ec https://religiondispatches.org/2013/09/30/why-womens-ordination-question-will-shape-future-mormonism A matter of “Radical Self Respect.” Mon, 30 Sep 2013 03:05:32 EDT Joanna Brooks ae92025e-51b8-4510-9270-9216c456a486 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/06/excommunicated-grave-scandal-ordaining-women Just after the new pope effectively shut the door to the ordination of women, a priest connects his segregated Louisiana upbringing and campaign to end the U.S. Army School of the Americas to last year’s excommunication for his refusal to quit ordaining women. Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:35:53 EDT Roy Bourgeois 418ee695-af27-4430-bf9c-6065e7912040 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/05/colin-mcginn-not-only-masturbating-philosopher While researching the history of philosophical arguments about the existence of God, it gradually became clear that my undertaking was in fact a study of masculinity, so shot through were these arguments with gendered assumptions and ideals. And, as a study of masculinity, it was also a study of patriarchy. Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:31:46 EDT Nathan Schneider 3b55cffb-30dc-4c37-8121-bd20dd3e8726 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/30/will-francis-statements-women-and-gays-make-mess-inside-church Pope Francis turned heads with statements that suggest a course correction in the church’s attitude toward gays and women, but ultimately it’ll be what ministry, decision-making power, and moral authority women share that will answer the question. Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:36:21 EDT Mary Hunt 968641f3-6663-48cd-96f5-8b2a622a5360 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/04/joseph-smith-himself-viewed-women-priesthood-holders Mormon women organize for ordination. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:07:16 EDT Joanna Brooks 4e1a73e2-641b-466d-a897-b7f120a41c80 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/02/04/women-combat-and-priesthood-response-mary-hunt Ordination as subordination? Perhaps there’s another way to look at it… Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:26:47 EST Marian Ronan 76361b50-aad5-404a-83d7-9de448ce062e https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/03/archbishops-try-hold-it-together-order-re-vote-women-bishops Second time’s a charm? Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:46:21 EST Joanna Brooks 09510b71-d20d-42a8-86b4-5db1625d13b9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/06/while-mormon-men-brawl-mormon-women-talk-gender-equality Concern over gender-segregated Church administration quietly builds. Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:24:35 EDT Joanna Brooks e896f057-d3a7-400d-b538-d1592ab6e4a0 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/28/we-shall-not-stop-evangelism-remembering-evangelical-john-r-w-stott “If we truly love our neighbor, we shall without doubt tell him the Good News of Jesus. But equally, if we truly love our neighbor, we shall not stop there.” Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:28:52 EDT Randall Balmer 2bcd5d73-3a40-43b1-941e-df707feb8550 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/08/catholic-church-targets-proponent-womens-ordination-feminist-theologian Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, while he was a senior official for Pope John Paul II, envisioned a leaner, meaner church, one with conservative doctrine and compliant faithful. Now that he is Pope Benedict XVI, his dream is coming true. Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:45:52 EDT Mary Hunt fd7630d7-af6f-44d6-bee7-15a67b114ba7 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/02/09/will-women-priests-change-church Catholic women priests are an oxymoron for the Vatican. It considers them automatically excommunicated before the holy oil is dry on their hands. Other Catholics accept them as sacramental ministers and are delighted with the innovation. Still, others, myself included, want far deeper structural changes in the Catholic Church such that priesthood loses its baked-on charm and ministry becomes the expected task of adult members. This is an important theological conversation that the Vatican wishes would go away. Memo to them: it is just starting. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:23:50 EST Mary Hunt df178396-cc21-49ec-b81d-deafa58c4e24 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/25/vatican-pitbulls-make-cardinal How do you rise to the level of cardinal under Pope Benedict XVI? Two new American cardinals reveal a pattern. Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:49:39 EDT Mary Hunt a180799d-9f30-44bd-91c3-2840fcca9f68