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Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nister of Finance was forced to conclude in exasperation “that it would be cheaper and more efficient to put all of Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs.” The public schools operate with surprising inefficiency, with students scoring the lowest numbers in Europe despite having four times as many teachers as Europe’s highest ranked system, in Finland. There are there separate government owned defense corporations. As for Greek health care, it is…

Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

By Stephanie Frank

…it was not simply about consolidating power; it was also designed to make Greece suffer. That is, owing to the psychology of debt, Greece’s pain is not a byproduct, but a requirement. For Nietzsche, civilization is built on our ability to make and keep promises. Angela Merkel’s comments following on the final European proposal revealed a subtext of anger at broken promises: she used the language of ‘trust.’ After the referendum, she lamented, “Th…

SCOTUS Tackles Government Prayer in Greece v. Galloway

By Becky Garrison

…guments in Town of Greece v. Galloway last week it marked the first time in 30 years that the court revisited the issue of prayer in the public square. The question before the court this time is whether it is constitutional for a town council to consistently open its legislative meetings with sectarian prayers. For many years the town council of Greece, located in upstate New York, has offered these almost exclusively Christian prayers, despite…

Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”

By Randall Balmer

…nearly a decade ago, I learned that the city of Waco billed itself as the “Athens of Texas.” High praise indeed, some would sniff, but Baylor itself had high aspirations. The university’s president at the time, Robert Sloan, sought to turn “the largest Baptist university in the world” into a “Protestant Notre Dame.” Let’s set aside for a moment the possibility that, with the appointment of such scholars as George Marsden and Mark Noll and the fact…

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…elopment has me eating my words. In response to an apparently overwhelming number amount of requests by atheists to give invocations, the Town of Greece has recently changed their SCOTUS-approved policy to one that requires invocation-givers to be members of “assemblies with an established presence in the Town of Greece that regularly meet for the primary purpose of sharing a religious perspective.” The standard of “established presence” is alread…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…ad inside help in many counties. According to Bedford board minutes from a December 2019 meeting that drew nearly 1,000 residents,[60] the sheriff supported the resolution when it was brought to the floor.[61] A local resident who was there, and who requested anonymity to avoid reprisal, recalled that the sheriff “indicated that he will let the militia do what they have to do…he wouldn’t take orders from the governor to curtail [them].”[62] The VC…

Americans United To Launch “Operation Inclusion” After SCOTUS Prayer Decision

By Sarah Posner

…ials are, post-Greece, revisiting their policy of non-sectarian prayer, which resulted from a settlement of a lawsuit brought by AU, challenging their practice of reciting the Lord’s Prayer to open meetings. Samuel Wilson, a Republican County Council member, told the News Journal that the Greecedecision “was good news. It might not be for the atheist but it is for the believer.” “Some people are getting the idea that the Greece decision creates a…

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…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…untry.” Last week, the 57-year-old former monk, a prominent personality in Greece’s powerful Orthodox church, threatened to excommunicate any MP who endorsed civil unions among gay couples following condemnation of Athens’s failure to do so by the European court of human rights. “For the church fathers, homosexuality is the most disgusting and unclean sin,” he railed in a nine-page missive made public last week. “[Such relationships] are an insult…

Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ge strategies that until now have largely been monopolized by the right. In 2019, we will see what further twists and turns this story takes. Looking back: The Court punts on Masterpiece Cakeshop Last year’s most prominent dispute was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case involving a baker, Jack Phillips, who refused on religious grounds to make a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. The Supreme Court heard ora…