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Michael Vick Walks on Water: Updated

By Nicole Greenfield

…who “can have a positive impact on other young men.” But Dungy is wrong to discount the tremendous role on-field success can, and indeed already has, played. As the nation witnessed on Monday Night Football last week, Vick’s performance on the field is an integral part, if not the integral part, of the redemption story. Through his awe-inspiring achievements, the naturally talented athlete has demonstrated his personal rehabilitation. While his em…

4 (More) Nails in Discovery Institute’s Coffin

By Lauri Lebo

…roy evolution. But in order to make that argument, they must conveniently discount, ignore or just lie about the vast amount of information made since then in the fields of genetics, molecular biology and evolutionary development. Perhaps to bring him up to speed a bit on the past century and a half, I’d like to make a helpful suggestion to Wells. He should read Sean Carroll’s wonderful book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Norton, 2005) for an und…

As a Muslim, I am Exhausted…

By Nabil Echchaibi

…ff the wisdom of our faith is pretentious and misleading. I do not wish to discount the importance of faith, but it’s the fact we project a closed certainty about the world I find utterly stifling. 9/11, and its political and cultural backlash, was a macabre trap to get us all to retrench into our myths of stable pasts and pure origins. We spend much of our time just condemning the despicable violence perpetrated in the name of Islam, as if this w…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…p about alternative scenarios. Of course I hope they’re right. But I don’t discount how the VRS clouds judgment. Foreign observers—those who are friendly to the United States but who are free of any VRS-related confusion—are far less certain that everything will come out right in the end. But then, foreign observers have long looked askance at the democratic bona fides of this boastful republic of ours. They understand that voter suppression here…

Living Between Worlds: Muslim, American, Five Percenter

By Hussein Rashid

…here and elsewhere, a broad array of evidence. Early on, he also actively discounts any potential evidence for an Arab background for Fard. However, at the end of the text, as he explores the intellectual precursors to the Five Percent, he most closely aligns them with Arab movements, which is where my sympathies lie. I think he needs to address these competing ideas he puts forward more directly. He also talks about the fact that placing the Fiv…

The Latest on Zubik v. Burwell: Religious Orgs Propose a Compromise That They Themselves Would Oppose

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…h a system would create, in one instance simply claiming the “Court should discount any asserted concerns about financial or practical difficulties that might ensue should large numbers of petitioners’ employees opt for separate coverage.” Here are four big problems with what they propose: #1: no contraceptive-only insurance plans exist! Moreover, we don’t know whether such plans could exist, whether they would conflict with state laws, or how the…

What Caused the Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse Crisis? Blame the Sixties.

By Joanna Brooks

…orized by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, investigated a number of potential factors contributing to a sharp peak of reported and documented abuse cases in the 1960s and 1970s, including social trends among ordination cohorts, changes in seminary curriculum, and psychological pathologies and social behaviors of abusive priests. Its conclusion? The sixties—social movements and sex, drugs, and rock and roll—are to blame. Study auth…

The Untold Story of Religious Support for Gay Rights

By Rebecca Alpert

…held idea that religion is by definition anti-gay. While her work doesn’t discount the role religion has played in obstructing gay rights, her examples of sometimes misguided but deeply sincere religious support for gay rights—especially in the pre-Stonewall era of terrible persecution—are important additions to the story. Did Stonewall inaugurate the American gay rights movement? White’s work shows conclusively that the organized fight for gay r…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…movement. By comparison, the Bundys’ movement is arguing that a 93 percent discount on grazing fees is insufficient while insisting that they’re facing a worse backlash than the #BlackLivesMatter folks. The Oregon occupiers argue from a privileged position than they are not experiencing enough privilege. These—literally, in the case of former Marine Jon Ritzheimer—are #WhiteTears. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been candid abo…

In Praise of Mary Magdalene

By Garret Keizer

…s the best seller list, she’s the one dusting off the Torah scrolls in the discount bin. If there is a path beyond belief and beyond atheism—which, after all, is but another form of belief, and lately a rather fundamentalist form to boot—Mary Magdalene walks that path. I have met others walking it with her, carrying their disillusionment like a cross. And still they show up, in pews, polling places, and picket lines, if only to bear witness to the…