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Just as the revelation that Teresa MacBain falsely represented her educational background shouldn’t become an excuse for atheist bashing, neither is it acceptable to act as if attending DDS would have drastically altered MacBain’s path—though of course that is always a possibility.

Just a couple months before Pope Benedict resigned, I was informed by the Vatican that he had expelled me from the priesthood because of my public support for the ordination of women. As a Catholic priest for 40 years, this was very difficult and painful.

American Jewish history is the history of Jewish grappling with the American (and Protestant) category of religion. At the moment, it’s not working out so well.

So the ground is shifting beneath our feet—what else is new?

The Pew poll revealed a significant number of Americans who, despite having no apparent reason to do so, identify as Jews.

As an organizer my question is: Where are American Jews now?

“I find that really hurtful that as a woman who’s been a member my whole life who’s faithfully attended, paid my tithing, held a calling—that the fact that I don’t have a Y chromosome would prevent me from being allowed to sit before my prophet and listen to his words.”

Pew’s new survey on Jewish Americans has thus far inspired anxiety, skepticism and even a few yawns. So RD asked an eminent group of writers, scholars and activists to respond to the brief prompt: “So what?”

Once again we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother with the details.

On being Jewish and atheist.