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Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

…and, well, Catholics. Quick! When was the last time an American president headlined the General Convention of the Episcopal Church? Look it up: 1928, Calvin Coolidge, Washington National Cathedral. Could it be that the congregational conversion of St. Luke’s and perhaps a handful of other Episcopal churches functions less to “bridge and heal a wound that has existed between Rome and Anglicanism for nearly five hundred years” than as a salve for th…

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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

…ized” response that looking at death is simply voyeuristic and morbid. Instead, there is something crucial to our lives that necessitates reflections on death, and sometimes this means looking—slowly, carefully, deliberately, even contemplatively—at what we are most afraid of.  Before 9/11: Remembering our Visual Cultures of Death  Barbie Zelizer has investigated issues surrounding journalistic images of death better than anyone in recent years. F…

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Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

…attained fame by blasting the moral idealism of liberal Protestant church leaders. In the 1920s he chafed at Social Gospel idealism while calling for more of it, not knowing what else to say. In the 1930s he urged church leaders to throw off their moralism to join the class struggle against a dying capitalist order. In the 1940s he urged church leaders to throw off their moralism to support the armed struggle against Fascism. In the 1950s he urged

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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

…63) knocked prayer and state-sponsored religious activities such as Bible readings out of our public schools for good, our schools must have been idyllic places, largely free from the type and extent of violence we see today. Sure, there were the occasional schoolyard fights, but those are a far cry from the premeditated, high-fatality attacks that are seemingly becoming all too common these days. God was allowed in our schools, and the safety of…

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Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

…ublic monument site. Meanwhile, a school for trans women, which had “made headlines as a symbol of Indonesia’s religious pluralism,” has been shut down after protests by the Islamic Jihad Front. More from Feder and Hindryati: Until last month, anti-LGBT rhetoric was not a major feature of politics in Indonesia, which is home to more Muslims than any nation in the world. The country has long been home to a community of transgender women known as wa…

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Untethering Conscience From Religion: An Interview with Louisa Thomas

…e Study of a Conscientious Objector in the First World War.” As soon as I read it, I knew there was a richer, more complicated story that needed to be told.  The central figure in Conscience is Norman Thomas, my great-grandfather. He is known to posterity—very slightly—as a man who ran for president six times on the socialist ticket between 1928 and 1948, and who inspired a lot of people. But it’s also about his three brothers, Evan Thomas, the co…

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Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

…social movements that mobilized hundreds of thousands if not millions of peaceful protesters (Tunisia and Egypt), and one by revolutionary military engagement (Libya). Massive peaceful protest movements in Morocco, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have led to important legal and constitutional reforms creating space for a greater share of freedoms in the Arab kingdoms of the Middle East. The regional political atmosphere has been reshaped. The Arab Leagu…

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Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

…l to true womanhood. There’s a name for Catholics who dissent from church teachings, McCloskey told Pierce: “Protestants.” And while the Catholics who follow the traditionaiist view of McCloskey are few, they are among the powerful, and that appears to be by design. From the piece: Since returning to Washington to run the Catholic Information Center for Opus Dei, McCloskey has taken his mission onto Meet the Press and to CNN. He’s preached it in U…

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Do Intelligent People Need Religion?

…: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, the Eastern Orthodox theologian argues, instead, that that “the absolutely convinced atheist” is not an uncompromising intellectual, but rather “someone who has failed to notice something very obvious.” And while Zuckerman’s study is rigorously researched, it actually demonstrates Hart’s point: the study gets the details right, but glosses over what is most conspicuous. Despite admitting the study does not account fo…

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Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

…backlash confirms our thesis and reflects, to us, the extent to which the headscarf is a symbol of the ideology of political Islam that we described here. Thank you for reading our article and extending your deep and important support. Please continue to exercise the most important intellectual muscle that we have as an antidote to tyranny of thought: critical thinking. Best, Asra Nomani The op-ed, written by two women, Nomani and Hala Arafa—the f…

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