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Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

By Bernard Schweizer

…be explicitly “intended” by the author. And this brings me back to Philip Pullman: My linking of Pullman with misotheism has been greeted with some incredulity. The Washington Post review of my book ended by quipping “I would like to be in the same room when Schweizer tells Pullman that he believes in God.” That’s smart—but not quite smart enough. It may be presumptuous to tell anybody what he or she believes. But as Pullman has reminded us in hi…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…ulative fiction, Revolt of the Angels (1914), that comes across a bit like Pullman—drunk on sacramental wine. Satan as Patron Saint of Art Anatole France extends the 19th-century Romantic view that we owe the very things that make life interesting—from sensual pleasures, to love of freedom, to intellectual pursuits and the arts—to the agency of demonic forces. In common with Philip Pullman (who he preceded by a century), Anatole France depicts the…

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

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who 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…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…l that would lead to a “Great Recovery.” The Christian entrepreneur George Pullman preached many of the same ideas as Ramsey in the 1890s, believing that in building his company town of Pullman, Illinois, he would treat his workers fairly and avoid strikes and lockouts. The results: the bloody and contentious Pullman Strike of 1894, when President Grover Cleveland called out the troops to deliver the mail, crush the strike, and imprison Christian…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…on of the Grand Master Mechanic of the universe.” Later that same year the Pullman Strike catalyzed a new wave of working-class religious resistance. Many Catholics stopped their subscriptions to the archdiocesan newspaper out of frustration with the editor’s refusal to side more decisively with the American Railway Union. At churches across the city’s South Side, meanwhile, Protestant churchgoers rose up against “scab ministers.” Nowhere was the…

Harry Potter Gone Bad: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

By Donna Freitas

…and Elizabeth Knox’s extraordinary fantasy duet Dreamhunter and Dreamquake number among my greatest reads. So I opened The Magicians eagerly, poised to lose myself in a story the Times called “a Harry Potter for adults,” only to realize several chapters in that the aptly-named Quentin Coldwater (a boy with a talent for spells and sorcery who is whisked away to a secret school for magic called “Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy”) was, chapter…