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Mennonite in a Midlife Crisis (of Faith)

…minational holiness theology, but I can tell funny anecdotes about a camp meeting that inundates my hometown for five days every July. In her memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen takes a similar approach to explaining her oft-misunderstood roots in the Mennonite faith. Slipping descriptions of borscht into her tales of revisiting her childhood community after being left by her husband, Janzen tells the story of rediscovering her…

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Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

There may be no New York City street more sensitive to attire than Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn. On the north side of the Williamsburg Bridge, which crosses the East River to Lower Manhattan (an overpriced bastion of artists, ambitious émigrés, and wannabes), is the world capital of hipster fashion. Children and the elderly are nowhere to be seen, except as the remnants of the immigrant communities that have resisted selling to condo developers. “N…

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Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

Read all the posts in this series here. Doctor Who airs in the U.S. on BBC America on Saturdays at 9PM/8C (and though it’s by no means necessary, those interested in watching the first four seasons can find them streaming on Netflix) — ed. James F. McGrath__________ The (Love) Doctor Gets Relationships and Spaceships Back On Track Perhaps it is simply a result of writing about this season’s episodes in this format, and thus reflecting on them mor…

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Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

…pigs for transplantation into humans. While xenotransplantation (interspecies transplantation) will require more research and human testing, Japanese scientists at the University of Tokyo have already created pigs that can “generate human blood by injecting blood cells from humans into pig fetuses.” Although this sounds like something out of a South Park episode in which scientists graft on a you-know-what to the back of a lab mouse so Mrs. Garri…

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Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

Michael Long’s new book, Peaceful Neighbor, dares to place Mister Rogers in his social, historical, and political context. I say “dares” because this can be more threatening to the reader than she might expect. Not that Long unearths salacious secrets—this isn’t a scandalous tell-all. But those of us who grew up watching Mister Rogers may discover, in reading Peaceful Neighbor, that we were hoping for a hagiography. Instead, Long offers us moment…

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Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

…the full equality, inclusion and acceptance of people of all gender identities and gender expressions. Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, fresh from playing a visible role at the World Congress of Families in Salt Lake City, announced this week that children living with a same-sex couple, whether adopted or the natural child of one of the parents…

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A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

…writer and celebrity journalist Jane Bussmann had a revelation while interviewing actor Ashton Kutcher at a Hollywood café: She really had to find something more meaningful to do. So she embarked on a Google quest for the most evil man in the world and found Joseph Kony, head of the Uganda-based Lord’s Resistance Army. “In a dramatic change of direction,” according to the jacket of the resulting book: [S]he set out for Africa to interview a respec…

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Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

Former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, ambassador of the Vatican to the Dominican Republic, is now a layperson awaiting criminal trial in the Vatican for sexual abuse of young people. After intensive negative press, the Vatican announced on August 25 that since he was no longer in their service, Wesolowski is not covered under diplomatic immunity and could potentially be extradited presumably to either his native Poland or the D.R. where he had been…

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How Evangelicals Pick Presidents

In discussing Amy Sullivan’s piece on Rick Perry yesterday, I focused on David Lane, the behind-the-scenes yet powerful player in helping to promote chosen political candidates to evangelical voters. The role of the less visible players is far more crucial, in my view, than the big name honchos who Sullivan also reported are throwing their weight behind a possible Perry candidacy. The three powerbrokers Sullivan mentioned—the religious right’s hi…

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An Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad

…o write The First Muslim? Basically, frustration! I’d read several biographies of Muhammad as background for my previous book, After the Prophet, but though they seemed to tell me a lot about him, they left me with little real sense of the man himself. There was a certain dutiful aspect to them, and this made them kind of… soporific. Which seemed to me a terrible thing to do to such a remarkable life. There was a terrific story to be told here: th…

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