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100 Years Later, Just Weeks After OK Bans Critical Race Theory, the Tulsa Race Massacre is Still Marginal History

…till see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams; I have lived through the massacre every day.” In Oklahoma, Black residents have fought for decades to bring attention, and more importantly restitution, to the Greenwood district. In 2001 Oklahoma established a commission to study the Tulsa Massacre. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission was established with the mission to “educate Oklahoma…

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The Eternal in the Blink of an Eye, Chris Marker (1921-2012)

…awakes. A series of still images focus on her resting face, tumbling after each other until… movement. Eyelids open, mouth cracks a half-smile—the slightest of gestures that release the spellbound viewer.   The scene occurs two-thirds of the way through Chris Marker’s fifty-year-old, post-apocalyptic masterpiece, La Jetée, a “motion picture” made up entirely of still images, save this one. Marker, who died on July 30 at age 91, made La Jetée on a…

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A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

…—he arranged for the clergy involved to attend a demonstration that could teach them what an abortion procedure entailed and what a woman experiences in an abortion. The clergy met with a pathologist who explained the procedure using a life-size model of a woman. The doctor explained carefully when and what kind of pain the woman would feel. Again, this kind of experience drew the clergy into a far deeper understanding of the woman’s experience. E…

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Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

…ernoon in Brooklyn’s beautiful St. Francis Xavier Church. He talked about reading the Bible as part of a spiritual practice. It occurred to me, then, that Berrigan liked the idea of Catholics reading and interpreting the Bible for some of the same reasons church teachers had so often tried to reserve that right for themselves. Being in Berrigan’s presence was a thrill—I had long followed his careers (I write lacking a better word for it) as activi…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…he blog that day was “the future of Jewish identity.” The moderators, Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn, had posed a question that week that was linked to the airing of the PBS television series “The Jewish Americans.” The question was: We know what ‘Jewish identity’ has meant in the past. What will it mean in the future? How does a minority religion retain its roots and embrace change? From a scholarly standpoint Meacham and Quinn’s question was not su…

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Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

…exuality must not be separated from procreation, and did bleed into some preachiness. Howell argued that because anatomical differences between men and women were part of the “real” world, sexual morality ought not be governed by utilitarian ethics but by the “inherent meaning” of the act. Explained Howell: Natural Moral Theory says that if we are to have healthy sexual lives, we must return to a connection between procreation and sex. Why? Becaus…

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“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

…nly came to mind when I learned that Father Matthew Kelty left this world peacefully at noon on Friday last. This is a great loss to those of us newly, and not-so-newly, arrived, and I wanted to try to explain why I think this is so. This remarkable monk spent fifty off-and-on years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where he was the last confessor that Thomas Merton ever had; and if that wasn’t enough to warrant further discussion, he was al…

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Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

…d at religious satire: Anatole France. I can hear the sound of collective head-scratching. Indeed, while my local big-box bookstore doesn’t carry a single one of his titles, this Nobel Prize winner (for literature, 1921) is among the world’s greatest satirists. He is also the writer of a clever piece of speculative fiction, Revolt of the Angels (1914), that comes across a bit like Pullman—drunk on sacramental wine. Satan as Patron Saint of Art Ana…

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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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Would a Mormon Church President Ever Retire Due to Age or Health?

…nce Benson. But historically the case has been otherwise for Mormon women leaders, says Rachel Hunt Steenblik, a doctoral student in religion at Claremont University. “LDS General Relief Society President Emmeline B. Wells (1828–1921) was released due to age,” Steenblik says, “even though LDS Church founder Joseph Smith set up the Relief Society to be parallel to the priesthood hierarchy and said that no General Relief Society President would be r…

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