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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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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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Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

…n the aftermath of the Revolution. This helps to explain why Protestants, teachers, agrarian reformers, and anyone associated with the revolutionary agenda dreaded the arrival of the cristero forces in their towns and villages—their side has a martyrdom narrative too—and why they were relieved at the government’s suppression of the revolt. This also helps to explain the congratulatory telegram sent to President Calles by the Methodist annual confe…

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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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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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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

…they have anything to say about these killings? I wondered what they are preaching and teaching in their churches. I mean, what would it look like for a group of white clergy to come to a bank of microphones and declare that black lives matter—or for those same clergy to request a meeting with the police director and the DA? My thinking about this is influenced by a book I’ve recently read: Joseph Reiff’s, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and…

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How to Talk to a Trump Evangelical at Christmas

…mp” at post-truth holiday gatherings. 4. Don’t discuss Trump voters. Some readers will object that I put too many evangelicals in the same basket of deplorables. If so, they have a valid point. Voters cast ballots for a wide variety of reasons, including frustrations about economic fairness and national belonging that deserve compassion. You should concede this point too and move on. 5. Do discuss Jesus. What you believe about Jesus is not the poi…

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