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Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative

…he oppressors for as long as necessary. In this way the prophet opens up a new perceptual and psychological space—one in which the pretenses of the powerful begin to look like just that: empty pretenses. Jeremiah offers perhaps the greatest example of acting out and creative disruption. He strongly resists the burden of prophecy; he then accepts that burden and makes a public display of his protests against corrupt rulers and soothing false prophe…

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Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

…out in San Francisco where wealthy and well-connected Catholics took out a newspaper ad calling for the replacement of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. His efforts to frontload a Catholic high school handbook with anti-gay rhetoric have punctuated his unpopular stint in San Francisco. The smart money is on him being promoted and relocated, as happened with Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law and other clerics who have contributed so actively to the r…

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Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

…s, evangelicals, and Orthodox Christians, an “ecumenism” celebrated by its promoters as evidence of its far-reaching appeal. The document targets reproductive freedom (enemy of the “sanctity of life”) and LGBTQ equality (enemy of the “dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife”) as foes of Christians’ religious freedom. It’s a new document but an old canard. And it’s proof that the culture wars are not only not over; there hasn’…

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Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

…I believe this is the first time the brothers have dipped their toes into New Testament waters.” Indeed he is mistaken. The Coens love the New Testament as only secular Jews can. The first shot in Hail, Caesar!, of a wooden statue of Jesus above the altar of a Catholic Church recalls a similar shot near the beginning of The Man Who Wasn’t There, a movie about a man dying for the sins of others. And let us not forget that in Miller’s Crossing, Tom…

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Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

…ets fired from Gaza. The Ministry of Health, which approved and funded the new construction promised that the new wing would be completed in 2011. This is where the bones, Jewish or otherwise, enter the picture. During the excavation of the land allotted to the new ER a small ancient graveyard was uncovered. Archaeologists from the government’s Israel Antiquities Authority judged the graveyard to be from the Byzantine period (around 600 AD), a tim…

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Defending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice

…these. But, perhaps others in the viewing audience might be moved by this new Bible to get the job done. I do believe, however, that Vest and his organization are sincere and that they want a people to again read the Bible instead of having it collect dust on the shelf. I suppose I would be a bit more impressed, however, if proceeds of the sales of the Poverty and Justice Bible, or even a portion of the proceeds, were going to help the poor and o…

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Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

…ly than they’d been accustomed to doing. Scholars argue whether or not the New Deal helped or hindered the nation’s recovery, and if it fundamentally altered or safeguarded capitalism, yet its influence on American values and identity shaped successive generations. Alongside older notions of self-help and limited government, the New Deal fostered acceptance of a strong centralized state actively involved with its citizens’ material well-being. The…

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Paul the Pluralist: Jesus’ Number Two Was Not a Christian

…g problem for the Protestant theology that is founded on this reading. The New Perspective emerged largely to address this issue. In contrast to the traditional interpretation, this new reading argues that Paul never meant the phrase “justification by faith” to be taken as a general theological principle about personal salvation. Rather it had to do with the relationship between Jews and Gentiles. Paul’s condemnations of “justification by works” w…

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Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

…ativity they demand to be heard. Amanda Hess, reviewing the series for the New York Times, calls McLemore, “the peppiest pessimist south of the Mason-Dixon line,” noting his “talent for profane rants about civilization’s downfall that he delivers in an Alabama drawl.” There is more than a touch of exoticism in S-Town. The weird old south gets trotted out for display: a secret segregated room with an empty stripper pole, full of casually racist dru…

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I Owe, Therefore I Am: Why Struggling Against the Banks is a Holy Obligation

…action in this country that Wall Street couldn’t resist inventing sketchy new products to induce consumers to sink themselves in infinite debt: ARM loans, obviously, but also still-riskier “mortgages” in which the “borrower” didn’t have to pay interest or principal. One lovely side note in Geoghegan’s account is the way in which he makes a famous movie villain—Lionel Barrymore’s Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life—look positively angelic in rel…

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