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Divine Inspiration: Kings Works Wonders

By Diane Winston

…ten, and serviceably acted (much depending on whether Ian McShane’s scenery-chomping and Chris Egan’s crinkly-eyed smile appeals). Updating the story cuts down the coy factor, allowing writers to make the villains (big money guys) and the heroes (health care advocates, energy activists, and farmers) recognizable, but the absence of time/place specificity lends an appealing (to some of us) sci-fi aura. Kings makes plain what many other TV series ke…

Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…ornians who have criticized this canonization are also Latinx, and many non-native Latinxs question the selection of Serra as well. Many Latinxs, including Catholic-committed ones, still wonder about racism within our own communities, and it’s not only the fraught legacy of colonialism that makes us unable to identify with Serra. It’s that yet again a European subject has been elevated at the direct cost of attention to African, Asian, Native, and…

Guess Who’s More Popular Than Jesus?

By Evan Derkacz

…? * * * *Another interesting datum from the poll, overshadowed by Jesus’ disappointing finish, is the vertiginous decline of Colin Powell. When asked “Is there any person you can think of whom you used to consider a hero but now do not?” Powell was the number one answer (amazing what trading on your considerable reputation in a disingenuous presentation widely credited for pushing the nation over the edge into an invasion of Iraq will do to your p…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…Driscoll’s highly publicized #1 New York Times bestseller Real Marriage, co-written with Driscoll’s wife Grace, one finds multiple instances of using Allender’s work without citation, including chapters supposedly written by Grace. And again, portions of Rid of My Disgrace (2011, Re:Lit), penned by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb, can be found in this book. (Chapter 7 of Real Marriage, contains unattributed passages from pages 16-17 and 27 of Rid of My…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…t every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires members to become cultured through learning. In forty-eight, their philosophy on divine justice is unpacked: “no one should kill for pleasure (gusto) nor money.” Each murder should be considered carefully to determine if there exists sufficient cause. Forty-ni…

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

By Shalom Goldman

…t-sanctioned and financed) would not speak out against the demands of Ultra-Orthodox co-religionists. And this reluctance to go against the rightward drift of Israel’s Orthodox Jews is in itself very troubling to Israel’s Hilonim (secular Jews), who comprise close to 40% of the Jewish population. Hilonim have long been protesting the official Rabbinate’s control over matters of “personal status”—especially their control of marriage and divorce. Ve…

RDPulpit: A Test of Moral Leadership for President Obama at G-20

By Mark S. Hanson

…ng to provide for those most in need. But the needs are too great for faith-based and other non-governmental organizations to meet alone. The world’s wealthiest nations must also fulfill their responsibility by increasing life-saving aid, expanding debt relief for poor nations and reforming the international-financial institutions. The world’s rich countries have made numerous commitments to increase aid to developing nations, but translating thos…

MLK’s ‘Dream’, Unrealized and Undigested

By Svend White

…ely death. Hajela again: At the time of his death, King was working on anti-poverty and anti-war issues. He had spoken out against the Vietnam War in 1967, and was in Memphis in April 1968 in support of striking sanitation workers. It’s both fascinating and depressing to consider how popular culture and even many of King’s self-proclaimed political inheritors on the Left have systematically neutered King’s legacy by treating him as exclusively con…

Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”

By Sarah Posner

…to accept CLS’s claim that religious beliefs trump the need to abide by non-discrimination rules, all non-discrimination laws—the laws we have put in place to guarantee everyone an equal opportunity to earn a living, find housing and to obtain access to critical services including health care—would be in jeopardy. Sounds downright prescient. Another “concrete example” the Bishops offer is what they call “discrimination against Catholic humanitaria…

I Was Wrong About Occupy

By Donna Schaper

…public—the self-surveillance on Facebook, the constant camera, and the ask-no-questions “security” cordons. They reminded me of one of my first posts on this whole matter: we no longer march and the police pen us for “our own good.” What nonsense. A completely nonviolent movement does not need to be penned up for its own good. And finally, they spoke of a new monasticism, in which people have given up everything to jump to a future they can only…