Religion Dispatches
Has the shift from sociability to social-networking left Garrison Keillor clinging to his Wobegone Lutherans of yesteryear? What of the glaring problems of those “simpler times?”
Read MoreBarney Frank drops the ball on consumer protection.
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Results of a new poll show that in matters of religion the right and left are in different universes. Why, then, are progressives so insistent on finding common ground?
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Dick Armey mobilized his protest troops at the Capitol this weekend, and prompted this meditation from our columnist on the dangerous nostalgia for white dominance—then and now—that this anti-Obama movement calls forth.
Read MoreIs Universal Coverage the only moral touchstone in health care reform? Religious progressives need to think again.
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As the media yawns at the latest unemployment numbers, our columnist seeks religious leadership on the taboo subject of our dysfunctional relationship to work. For even if the economy recovers and “full employment” returns, we will still be encountering a workplace that remains a site of utter terror in some instances and a site of routine abuse and low-grade anxiety in others.
Read MoreNothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?
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Adherence to doctrine has long been a marker of faith among Christians. But what do the creeds and fine distinctions of theological argument have to do with commitment to justice?
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We might be tempted to dismiss the entire legacy of an artist or thinker whose political position or moral beliefs do not accord with our own enlightened views. We forget that we, like they, are products of an age—and that what we are throwing away might be worth far more than the pieties we cling to.
Read MoreMortgage companies, the New York Times reports, make money by keeping people in delinquency. In this way, the minorities who were targeted for subprime loans in the first place are being exploited a second time.
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