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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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Will ‘Conjuring 3’ Influence Real-Life Events Via the ‘Exorcist Effect’?

…s based on true events come to shape the way we interpret the world; this leads to more reports of paranormal experiences, which become fodder for more horror films. It’s an endless mobius strip where the line between film and history becomes increasingly blurred. The Conjuring franchise, in depicting the real-life adventures of Ed and Lorraine Warren, has mastered the conceit of being “based on a true story.” The latest installment, The Devil Mad

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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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Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

…tor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014. Vincent Gordon Harding Historian and theologian Vincent Gordon Harding died at 82. Harding founded Atlanta’s Mennonite House with his wife Rosemarie in 1961, a headquarters for…

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One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

…rtain, to adopt euphemistic expressions to hide and soften its impact, to teach it only as one alternative theory, to leave it for advanced courses where the multitudes cannot encounter it, or, if it is dealt with at all in a school or a high school biology course, to present it as unobtrusively and near the end of the course as possible.” Muller’s address was entitled “One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough.” Now is a good opportunity to…

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World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change

…ty percent of those with AIDS globally are women; and the syndrome is the leading cause of death among African American women between 25 and 34. Now, in 2008, nearly fifty percent of new U.S. diagnoses of HIV or AIDS occur among black people. And Hispanics, as well, are disproportionately affected by AIDS/HIV in the United States. Nearly 50 percent of US infections reported in March 2008 (data for 2006) were male to male infections. (For such data…

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Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day

…ty percent of those with AIDS globally are women, and the syndrome is the leading cause of death among African American women between 25 and 34. Now, in 2008, nearly fifty percent of new US diagnoses of HIV or AIDS occur among black people. Hispanics, as well, are disproportionately affected by AIDS/HIV in the United States. Nearly 50 percent of US infections reported in March 2008 (data for 2006) were male to male infections. (For such data, see…

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