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Do Dogs Have a Soul?: Taking “Creaturely” Life Seriously

By Beatrice Marovich

…edge. And it is to render our spiritual lives open to the inhuman in a new way—not focused merely on that which is super- or extra-human, but that which is nonhuman in a much more intimate and terrestrial way. Dayan realizes that letting our “bond with dogs count for something monumentous”—taking the bonds and ties of creaturely life with the utmost seriousness—is a matter for more than just the animal rights activists, the humane societies, or th…

How a Group of Catholic Pacifists Took on the Nuclear State

By Eric C. Miller

…owshares activists and fewer Plowshares actions. But their worldview has always accommodated small numbers, characterizing them as a mark of faithfulness and authenticity. Faithful witness is a legacy that Plowshares activists are proud to claim, even if the nuclear threat hasn’t been eradicated. That’s not to say that Plowshares participants haven’t hoped for, and worked toward, instrumental outcomes. I am sure they were moderately pleased when t…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…r otherwise potentially difficult to talk to, the Atheos app steers users away from engaging with them. The emphases on inquiry, diplomacy, and de-escalation are all admirable, but as noted earlier the tone is not always free of condescension. Writing realistic dialogue for hypothetical conversations is a very particular skill, and several of the scenarios reflect a deep disdain for believers. At times, the app casts believers as belligerent doofu…

RDPulpit: Did Progressive Christianity Dump its Savior in Brad Braxton?

By Ronald B. Neal

…spects made those struggles my own), I sought theologically, and in my own way, to transcend them. In no way did I pretend to deny or minimize the struggles of that era; the injustices that the boomer era sought to overcome were and continue to be very real. However, I was shaped by a preaching tradition, the Black Baptist tradition (a conservative tradition), that reveled in the resurrection, the triumphant side of Christianity. In the Black Bapt…

Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

By Timothy Beal

…chaotic (tohu vabohu) earth that God just created from nothing. Taken this way, then, we imagine an absolute beginning, with God creating heaven and earth from nothing. Which is how the Greek and Latin translations took it. But if you read this first word as a verb, as most Hebrew biblical scholars argue you should, then the bet modifies that verb, and you get something like “when began.” That leads to a translation something like, “When God began…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…issions but little effect on the amount of toxic pollutants emitted. On my way out of the interview, looking in that journalistic way for the bottom line, I asked Dr. Ho whether he thought incense-smoke inhalation was a problem. He looked at me and responded calmly, “Yeah, it’s a big problem.” Another problem is fireworks. As someone who has always hated fireworks and would rather stay inside with my head under a pillow than endure a loud, smoky F…

Toward a Literature of Abuse

By Donna Freitas

…a consensual affair, but still. Merton refers to her as M., and I find the ways he talks about his love for her and the way he is acting because of that love incredibly upsetting. So at the beginning of each major section of This Gorgeous Game is a quotation from Merton’s journals about the affair, and these quotations more or less follow the feelings of Olivia and Father Mark’s actions in the chapters that follow it. The story of Merton’s affair…

Cardinal Dolan Not So “Charitable,” says Young Gay Catholic

By Peter Montgomery

…ge.org petition, and how has the response been? I was trying to think of a way to provide Catholics with a way to make their voices heard. I grew up in the same Church that every Catholic across the country did, in which silence sometimes plays a very large role. We have learned every once in a while that we need to stand up and say, “Silence is not a good option.” When we are silent, we aren’t acting like Christ—petitions are an important way for…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

When Atheists Cry “Heresy!”: Sam Harris Condemns Obama Pick for NIH

By Eric Reitan

…ed about the human person if this possibility is denied in advance, in the way that Harris and others like him do. The fact is that, while most brain scientists do operate on the assumption that the mind is a product of the brain, the evidence falls short. We know there are deep correlations between what happens in consciousness and what happens in the brain; we rely on the brain for our conscious experience. But while the image on my computer scr…