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Are Academic Theologians Useless? Part II

By Tony Jones

…blog earns you ten points, and if Andrew Sullivan links to you, you get 25 bonus points. Posting 3-4 tweets a day earns you 15 points. Just do something, dammit. I’ll buy an iPod for the first person to 100. *And, as a postcript, here’s a quote from Umberto Eco posted by a thoughtful commenter on my blog last week: My answer was that this habit is common to all European intellectuals, in Germany, France, Spain, and, naturally, Italy: all countries…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…battered by Muslims and Marxists, in which to make his stand. As an added bonus, he can defend the Catholic faith in a national church. The Orthodox communion is governed through a highly decentralized, synodical system in which 15 self-governing churches—traditionally organized along national/ethnic lines—act with autonomy. While this system of ecclesiastical governance predates by centuries modern concepts of race and nationalism, for a nationa…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…bes our resurrection with all humanity for Judgment, but, you know, that’s between you and anyone you tell and judges you for it), and a beautiful person has your pre-fast meal prepared for you. This person is your suhouri, your beautiful best friend in the world. No greater gorgeousness can be imagined or described. (Despite this beauty, please keep an eye on small children, who may fall asleep and drown in cereal bowls because they are like ‘dea…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…stin Holcomb says Halloween’s pagan origins have basically been subsumed into harmless fun and can be an opportunity for good family fellowship. But don’t take things too far: “There is a big difference between kids dressing up in cute costumes for candy and Mardi-Gras-like Halloween parties, offensive costumes, and uninhibited excess.” Bonus fun: Driscoll on zombies in the Bible….

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nd or vacation themed. In any case, I like to take note. And, as a special bonus, today my friend, the Pittsburgh poet Ellen McGrath Smith, posted a really wonderful little poem as her status (On the peonies/ants are running errands/Petal by petal they fall off the globe). I burned maybe thirty minutes on all this digital sociality before I saw that the venerable scholar of ancient church history, Rebecca Lyman, had posted a characteristically wis…

A Room Without Rants

By Andrew Pessin

…everything and nothing, so much so that they actually blur the distinction between talking about something and talking about nothing. They are, alas, the face – or perhaps I should say the food-stuffed mouth – of public discourse. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Not even when it comes to the more controversial topics of public discourse, in particular the cluster of issues relating to religion, faith, and God. As I was researching my latest bo…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…sive position” on gay marriage that would “precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions and to the detriment of both institutions; He found President Obama’s support for marriage equality “deeply saddening;” He said the White House is “strangling” the church with the contraception coverage requirement; He wrote that the contraception coverage is “un-American;” He worried that by inviting HHS Secretary Kathleen S…

Sex Is More Fun than Lying

By Sarah Posner

…rriage and using contraception, in spite of Vatican teaching that both are sin, noted that people lie even though that’s a sin, too. I had a little retort to that.) There’s a bonus at the end, too: Michael, a traditionalist Catholic, makes the case against beatification of Pope John Paul II. Watch:…

Top 10 Reasons Mormons Should “Take It Down a Notch for America” This Election Season

By Joanna Brooks

…ry of how they got to America is really awesome. 10. Remember, the hymn says: “Let us oft speak kind words to each other,” not “let us oft call people we disagree with Hitler.” And finally, one bonus reason: 11. We’ve got the soothing tones of Elder Richard G. Scott. If that doesn’t lower your blood pressure, nothing will. Safe travels, and happy voting….

New Southern Baptist Curriculum Bashes Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…astiness. The module on homosexuality (contained in the Insights, Options, Bonus section of Known 13) reads like something that could have been produced by the Family Research Council or Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. That is to say, it’s completely hateful. I am horrified by this development. But also oddly heartened… I am horrified because teenagers coming to terms with their sexuality will be told that homosexuality is “vile and shame…