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Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…narrator tells us that in the hours after the September 11 attacks, the random-event-generators in noetic scientists’ labs behaved unusually; “as the frightened world came together and focused in shared grief,” the machines’ random outputs became orderly and patterned—proof that the shared “cosmic consciousness” of the human race could change the physical world. The fantasy is not much different from that of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciou…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…es. Coach Wooden transcended many of those simple dichotomies, offering wisdom accessible to almost anyone. He was born in Hall, Indiana, four years before the Great War, later moving to the “big” town of Martinsville, population 4,800. So Coach knew the rural life. In 1948 he moved to Los Angeles where he would live for the rest of his life. As a part of the great migration from the rural Midwest to the urban West, he could sympathize with both u…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…rican church from Michael O’Loughlin, columns from Margery Eagan, and Rome reporting from Allen and Ines San Martin. The Boston Globe’s reputation for fierce honesty in its church coverage helped bolster the site, and Allen’s decades of experience, coupled with the skill of its writing staff, made the site an important voice. In the small hive that is Catholic journalism, Crux had a lot of buzz. What it did not have was a lot of money. The Globe’s…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…w dozen yards of the riders and take pictures of the scene with their cell phone cameras. Traffic on College Avenue begins to pick up. “You’re protesting God!” a motorist hollers when he catches sight of one of the Soulforce banners. Finally a slender young man wearing a “CBC Soccer” jacket ventures all the way to the sidewalk. “I just kind of want to show them I care,” says Jonathan Jacobs, a junior at the college. Jacobs, whose family moved to C…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…Israel that they won’t share publicly, many for fear of endangering their reputation or their careers.” The survey found that 43% of rabbis who identified as dovish reported feeling “very fearful” of expressing their true views on Israel, compared to just 29% of moderates and 25% of hawks. A full 74% of the dovish rabbis reported feeling “very” or “somewhat” fearful of expressing their views. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the Reconstructionist-ordained…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…habbat when, we are taught, we must let the Earth have its own restful year—is the curve that moves the spiral onward. Indeed, now I understand midrash itself as a spiral, in which we go back again and again in order to go forward. We draw on ancient wisdom to create new wisdom. What went before, we turn and turn like a kaleidoscope. With every turn, new beauty, new patterns, new complexity. Facing new versions of the world. Birthing new versions…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…he prison. Then I met Ryan Patch. He was starting a documentary about the preparations for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, but the film was never funded. So when I got back, I contacted him and told him I had a hard drive full of interviews, and things took off from there. How is the film different from your scholarly project? The film started out as a visual representation of my dissertation and then turned into its own thing. Stating your academic arg…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…ady’s messages to Adele were uncontroversial, according to the visionary’s reports: Ask everyone to repent, the Virgin requested, and told Adele to “Gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation.” Adele did exactly as ordered with no further Marian intervention before her death in 1896. Afterward, although local Catholics kept her memory, Adele never became a political icon or inspiration for religious…

Papal Encyclical Becomes Part of Congressional Record

By Sarah Posner

…ere heady days indeed. Overnight, dissent became a front-burner issue. Any number of episcopal conferences mentioned its possibility and legitimacy. The American bishops in their pastoral letter, “Human Life in Our Day” (Nov. 15, 1968), even laid out the norms for licit dissent. Expression of dissent is in order “only if the reasons are serious and well founded, if the manner of the dissent does not question or impugn the teaching authority of th…