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You Are Not Your Star Sign

…justification in which individuals hope to participate themselves.” The blogger who declared, “Dude, I’m a Leo and always will be a Leo, no matter where the sun is on August 5th,” is not merely reacting to a potential shake-up of the way we map the stars; he’s insisting that a certain system of sense-making has practical use for navigating his daily life. Star signs function as totems, markers of tribal identity and true self, while, through a dyn…

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The Most Embarrassing Losers Ever?

…submit to their husbands; of comparing abortion to the Holocaust, and of suggesting that the Constitution could be improved by better alignment with God’s word. True, that last pitch wouldn’t fly in the Constitution-is-just-as-perfect-a-rendering-of-God’s-will-as-you-will-find-outside-the-King-James-version-of-the-Bible-America, but the point is that Huckabee has never made a secret of his affection for fusing church and state. And one of his favo…

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Beck’s Road to Jerusalem

…but his relentless fear- mongering—along with his disappearing audience—suggest a more selfish motive. Although a Mormon, Beck’s beliefs appear here to be more aligned with conservative Christian beliefs regarding the end-times, and a particular reading of the Book of Revelation that lends itself to raptures, dispensations, and popular culture depictions like Left Behind and a Thief in the Night. Unlike Harold Camping, who just wants his calculat…

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Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

…“take up the fight against shari’ah.” Afterwards, I asked Breger if he thought Gaffney was dangerous. “I don’t want to use that word,” he said, adding “but I think the view that he’s espousing has the potential to have very deleterious consequences.” Because George W. Bush said he was fighting terrorism, not Islam, Breger went on, the views of people like Gaffney were “marginalized” during the Bush Administration. But now, he maintained, conservat…

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The Humanities Make Life Bearable

…e have no hope of repaying the massive debt loads so many now carry? The biggest problem, of course, is a profound confusion about means and ends, a basic confusion that one might have hoped at least some members of the Commission would recognize. Liberal education is an end, and a precious one at that; it does not need to be a means to any other end, although it might well prove to be that. Being in possession of an enlightened and humane conscio…

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No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

…ue—certainly tracks a similarly generalized Christian ethic. But I would suggest that the ethical perspective of those I might tag as “Good Samaritan Nones” goes somewhat further in ways that are particular to the spiritualities of American Nones. Very basically, the ethos of “Golden Rule Christianity” is to treat each person as we might desire to be treated. Philosophers from Immanuel Kant to Ayn Rand have criticized ethical practice based on the…

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Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

…ect. Your book tells the story of movement conservatism as an internal struggle between two opposed factions—traditionalists and libertarians. The first faction values religious belief and social order, while the second is primarily concerned with individual freedom. Over a few decades of antagonism, the two became fused. How do you evaluate the state of the movement currently? Is the struggle ongoing? In my judgment, the history of the American c…

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Trump’s Inaugural Address Gets an “F” in American Civil Religion

…aracterized by “winning” and a return to nostalgic greatness devoid of struggle. In place of sacrifice for the common good, Trump emphasized “total allegiance to the United States of America” while failing to offer particular examples of American rights and values. In his now-classic essay, “Civil Religion in America,” Robert Bellah identified a tradition in American national discourse that exists “alongside of and rather clearly differentiated fr…

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Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

…and erasure lurking in our lives. Understanding came immediately, as did suggestions for coping in such a hostile climate: essential oils for anxiety, Valerian root for insomnia, comedy for the rage—the list went on, stretching into the night. Here, in this brightly lit restaurant on Chicago’s South side, the dinner party turned group therapy. Fewer than a dozen of us were gathered to begin a weekend spiritual retreat hosted by the Mystic Soul Pro…

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The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

…ver and Easter takes away that easiest place to connect. I don’t mean to suggest that Easter and Passover cannot be combined successfully. In many interfaith families, people manage to do just that. One of the families that I interviewed during my fieldwork had chosen Judaism as their household religion, and they observed Passover from the night it began until they left Hebrew School on Sunday morning to drive to Grandma’s house for Easter dinner….

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