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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…we’re here on this planet with other humans, not just ourselves, with headphones, watching Netflix all day. “A change in attitude seems to be occurring around the country. I don’t have a lot of time or energy to convince people that they should stop being selfish with their buildings. People come to me, and they get that already. They realize this building could be used in a lot of other ways.” ~ Nathan Marion Netflix binging is our top competito…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…op Chaput and the Archdiocese be welcoming, or will they allow themselves to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get…

As a “Cult Leader” Disgraced Pastor Mark Driscoll Does Not Rank

By Jesse James DeConto

…scoll might have had a cult-leader personality, but, as Duin says, what he was preaching was “hardly esoteric.” Driscoll’s is a prominent “New Calvinist” Gospel, popularized by Reformed Baptists like John Piper, Southern Baptists like Al Mohler and Presbyterian Church in America preachers like Tim Keller. Love him or hate him, but don’t confuse Driscoll with a religious innovator. That’s Driscoll’s wicked genius—to mask your great-grandfather’s us…

Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…should shape the policies and practices of our own institutions.” Robin Sowards, who was involved in the first unionizing committee at Duquesne and now works as an organizer with the USW, says that Duquesne’s continued resistance to unionization “is in plain violation of Canon Law.” Canon 1246 states that Catholic schools are to “observe meticulously also the civil laws concerning labor and social policy, according to the principles handed on by…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…at those identities express themselves in public forms (the political). It was certainly the way many of those who commented on the Times story framed their views. As a woman (the personal), I interpret your request as patriarchal and will not move to accommodate it (the political). But isn’t being an Orthodox Jew also an identity that matters? And isn’t seeking an accommodation based on that identity a legitimate public expression? And isn’t the…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…al journal of the religious right”) as particularly nefarious, leading the way toward (this will shock readers) a politics informed by natural law. I’m happy to endorse his warnings to those on the left. Despite this frank acknowledgement by Catholic conservatives, a vast gap exists in popular and academic understanding of these religious and theological foundations of the legal conservative movement. High-profile articles about the Federalist Soc…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…istian theologians, Catholic and Protestant, reassured Germans that Nazism was in full accord with Christian principles. This was not a marginal effort; at the 1934 Oberammergau passion play, watching Jesus being hoisted on the cross, the audience saw a parable of the Third Reich, calling out: “There he is. That is our Führer, our Hitler!” Hitler became Christ, the redeemer of Germany, thanks to a reinterpretation of the Gospels: Jesus was not a J…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…a broad coalition fighting for worker justice at Sea-Tac Airport, outside Seattle. It was a tremendous, inspirational, often chaotic fusion of immigrant workers from more than a dozen different countries, faith leaders, community activists, and union organizers who made history by taking on corporate giants and winning the first $15 minimum wage initiative in the country. By union standards, it was a highly unconventional campaign, forcing us to…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…fication of Jesus on the cross with lynching victims, claiming that Jesus “wasn’t a victim, he was a conqueror.” There is some truth to that. If the message of the cross spoke only to victimhood, who would listen? However, here again, Beck has misread Cone. Black theology continually talks about the way in which God not only identifies with oppressed people, but also empowers them for liberation. In black theology Jesus conquers, not from a positi…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…