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Mental Health is a Spiritual and Religious Issue

By Joanna Brooks

…eded. None of the major public institutions he passed through—schools, the military, the legal system—managed to help Jared Loughner. Depression and paranoid schizophrenia are different struggles; Jared Loughner has dealt with a much more grievous form of illness than I ever did. But, God, I wish Jared Lee Loughner had something to comfort him, something to calm him, something to carry him through. For me, the Tuscon shootings finally offer this m…

Captain America v. The Collective: Redemption in Tucson

By Christopher H. Evans

…nation’s suffering through heroic words or actions (often associated with military force). Part of the appeal of this model is that, like superhero figures out of popular culture, the hero does all the work, requiring no sacrifice from us—only that we have faith in the power of the heroic figure to save us. But there is a more prophetic vision of redemption in American history which requires us to enter into a web of suffering and tragedy in the…

The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…thing from same-sex marriage to hate crimes legislation to the Employment Nondiscrimination Act. (The Family Research Council’s fundraising appeal this week claims that would be the “ENDA your religious liberty” and “the end of moral opposition to counterfeit marriage, homosexuals in the military, the indoctrination of school children, the rest of the homosexual rights agenda, and the lottery for trial lawyers.”) When someone like Franks — who sup…

Gay and Lesbian Candidates Win Primary Victories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…even though Bono argued that her concern was Congress would undermine the military’s study process by passing the measure. In other California races three candidates, Victory Fund reports that “Toni Atkins (Dist 76), Rich Gordon (Dist 21) and Ricardo Lara (Dist 50) won their Democratic primaries in overwhelmingly Democratic Assembly districts.” The race for Sonoma County District Attorney went to Jill Ravitch who will “become the state’s second o…

Archbishop Dolan’s Love Letter to Rep. Ryan Betrays Catholic Teaching

By Daniel C. Maguire

…you gutted long-established protections for the most vulnerable members of society… particularly pregnant women and children,” while lavishing trillions on corporations, military kill-power, and the super-rich. And to all of that Jesus and the other prophets of Israel would say “Amen!”…

Post-Zionism or Post-Judaism?

By Brian Britt

…s the earlier classic. For a society of immigrants where the experience of military service is nearly universal and culturally central, the films’ focus on émigrés (sometimes pejoratively called yoredim, “those who go down”) suggests not all is well with Zionism. Post-Zionism, a term made familiar in the 1990s by Israeli intellectuals, was denounced by some after the attacks of September 11, 2001, but the term continues to describe a range of posi…

The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By Bruce Chilton

…e of Christian art from the biblical text, because Abraham was made into a military hero. Christianity, like Judaism and Islam, glorified sacrifice in the very text that was intended to bring human sacrifice to an end. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Having shown how a religious text has proven lethal and remains dangerous, I would like to show the productive side of the prophetic tradition. What’s your next boo…

Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism?

By Hussein Rashid

…others. As a case in point, I mention that Mumbai represents another Anglophone metropole, and I assume most people think of New York (9/11) and London (7/7). How many thought of Madrid (3/11)? With New York and London we are witnesses, at a distance, of the lives of the people who died and, to a certain extent, the people who carried out these attacks. We know at least some of their names and we’re inundated with multiple day coverage of the eve…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…an-assisted suicide and human cloning #8 – expanding judicial oversight of military detentions and CIA interrogations #7 – prohibiting tuition vouchers for religious schools #6 – banning the death penalty #5 – creating new constitutional rights to massive government welfare and medical care programs #4 – stripping ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance #3 – eroding property rights #2 – ordering all 50 states to bless gay marriage #1 – requiring…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…nimum, conflicts in the region would need to become diplomatic rather than military for such regional integration to occur. Israel doesn’t have that kind of time at its disposal, nor do the other countries in the region seem predisposed to extend the hand of partnership. To the contrary, Israel’s very existence remains, at best, resentfully accepted and, at worst, is the target of attack. That’s not an atmosphere where nationalism can be replaced…