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Restless Heart Syndrome: When Bad Movies Happen to Good People

By Amy Laura Hall

…tching public, the delicate intricacy of his story in the Confessions is lost. Take Monica. Readers have wrangled both hagiography and demonology from the book, making Augustine’s mother into either the incarnate source of Augustine’s saving or of his sexual neurosis. The truth is stranger than either caricature, of course, and Augustine writes about his mother in a way that is truthful, albeit not exhaustive. Confessions does not offer a tidy ac…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nd, yes, God help me, the fact that Martin Richard is white, lives in the U.S., and speaks English makes it seem like “he could be my own child,” in a way that doesn’t hold for children further removed from the contexts I know. I dearly wish that weren’t true. It shouldn’t be true. Those are the things I was thinking about when I should have been writing last week’s Preachers’ Daughters recap. I didn’t manage to write it, and anyway it seemed t…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…y quest to understand our current culture of shopping in the fourth century. Augustine of Hippo, in his poetically written spiritual autobiography, The Confessions, struggles with misguided desire in his long and arduous path to Christianity. As I searched for a theological category to come to terms with our context, the word concupiscence leapt out at me. A theme that emerges in Augustine’s corpus is how we have misguided desire, or lust and pass…

Confession is Not Conversion: Giuliani’s Bizarre Comparison of Trump to St. Augustine

By Candace E. West

…iuliani attempted to shut down the uproar over the recording by mentioning St. Augustine’s Confessions, a narrative account of the fifth-century Church Father’s character and conversion. In the Confessions, considered one of the earliest works of western autobiography, Augustine tells a complicated story of a man driven by lust, vanity and pride. At the book’s end, Augustine has repented his misdeeds, recanted his heresies, and dedicated his life…

‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…know them at all.” (No, really. One of the side effects of a humanities Ph.D. is that your inner mental pinball machine slowly sheds its flashy chutes and blinky lights, and instead acquires a large trough in the middle labeled “Library” where your shiny mind-ball goes and sits quietly. That’s not a judgment, just an FYI.) As it turns out, UC Berkeley historian Thomas Laqueur, and Virginia Burrus, Professor of Early Church History at Drew Univers…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…Staver has endorsed Gingrich, and serves on his national faith leaders team. Florida Family Action president John Stemberger endorsed Rick Santorum. That split was representative of the meeting of religious right leaders in Texas just before the South Carolina primary, which produced a contested “consensus” for Santorum, although many of the attendees were still in the Gingrich camp. Voters I spoke to at the event yesterday, though, either hadn’t…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I didn’t get one, but my citizen journalist dues are current. Stay tuned….

Who Cares about what Augustine had to Say about Akin and Rape?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ing Shame, which addresses some of the points raised by Lincoln Cullen’s post.) And if the interview prompted something for you, please do share it in the comments. Once again, thank you—to Drs. Burrus and Laqueur, and to everyone else who chimed in in a non-shouty fashion. The notion that people can still get excited by talking about Augustine and/or early modern notions of sexual difference, to say nothing of the evidence that the internet can…

Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Law Forbidding “Blasphemous” Business Names

By Lauri Lebo

…U (I am a board member of a local chapter) the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that the statute violated the First Amendment prohibition on establishment of religion and promoted only Christian religious views. Words used by the Pennsylvania Corporations Bureau to flag proposed names for closer scrutiny included terms such as Christ and Jesus but not those related to other religions, such as Allah or Mohammed. In h…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…Nevertheless, there are still some who will claim that it doesn’t even exist. Others may deny or downplay the movement’s significance. While we cannot cover everything here, we want to dismantle the main elements of NAR denialism and briefly show how they can contribute to misunderstandings of this important movement. We also want to show better ways forward and point to sources that anyone coming to this subject will find helpful. Origins of the…