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The Biblical Circus of William Stringfellow

By Nathan Schneider

…an academic conference. Now, unmistakably, it has followed me to New York City, where I keep discovering people who knew the man. It has followed them longer. Now in his mid-eighties, Fr. Daniel Berrigan’s eyes grew wide when I told him the other evening whose shadow had been following me. In 1970, the priest-poet Berrigan was arrested by the FBI while hiding at Eschaton, the property in Rhode Island where Stringfellow lived with his partner, Ant…

The Leadership Failure of Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…vidual, and the overall style of leadership. It should be easy in New York City to create a visibly diverse group of Muslim supporters that represents the richness of our community, and who can put forward a clearly articulated vision. A combination of Muslims from different interpretations, like the interfaith advisory board the organizers envision, could protect the center from ideologues. I am not the only one raising concerns about the project…

As Trial Approaches, Accused in IHOP Murder Case Challenges Evidence

By Sarah Posner

…the Deaton murder. Still, though, in reporting the story, I did talk to a number of people who were at IHOP at the time, and knew either the Deatons or Moore, or both. Several of them told me that although IHOP tried to distance itself from Tyler Deaton after Bethany’s death, IHOP leadership did know about the abuses of his housemates well before that, and failed to act to reign him in or address the mental health issues suffered by some of his f…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…lives of little children are blighted for want of a chance, is the man or city in which life becomes a hollow mockery and which ultimately loses the material things he has grasped, as he has sluffed off the spiritual. It was not a complete shift—most Southern religious leaders wanted to salvage capitalism rather than abandon it, but they supported the regulation of business and banking, protections for workers, and the gradual extension of a limi…

Will San Francisco Ban Circumcision?

By Shalom Goldman

…ing a misdemeanor. In order to get this proposal on the 2011 San Francisco city ballot, Schofield has to collect over seven thousand signatures—and thus far his campaign is not going very well. Quite to the contrary, the idea has caused a backlash, and not only in the American Jewish Community. The organized Jewish community in both California and throughout the U.S. rallied to condemn the proposed ban. Within a few days of Schofield’s statement,…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he Nunciature to greet him as he prepared to leave Washington for New York City. Such brief greetings occur on all papal visits and are due to the Pope’s characteristic kindness and availability. The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature was with one of his former students and his family. RD’s Anthea Butler summarized the situation as a Vatican Game of Thrones. Liberty Counsel has continued to insist that Davis met privately wit…

Know-Nothing Christians Irate Over Obama Comments

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…r nation at all. And in so saying they adopt the old idea of America as “a city upon a hill”—always exceptional, and made all the more exceptional but its fidelity to biblical ideals. In fact, President Obama is far more comfortable with this rhetoric than many other Christians on the left side of the theological spectrum. The idea here comes straight out of the covenant Israel made at Sinai. If this “kingdom of priests” (Exodus 19:6) were to main…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…a school for Africans in New York City. Roman Catholics arrived in greater numbers in the nineteenth century, from places like Ireland, Germany, and Italy. As with other groups, finding their place in the rich tapestry of American diversity did not always come easy. John Hughes, who became the first archbishop of New York (and the founder of what is now Fordham University), protested the use of the Protestant-inflected King James Version of the Bi…

Mumbai is Not 9/11

By Laurie Patton

…way, a symbol of refuge, rest, and celebration. The Intimacy of the Target City The terrorists’ understanding of place extended even to the inner sanctum of the Taj Hotel. In that battle, the attackers behaved like well-trained soldiers, as a member of the Indian commando unit who fought them observed. They knew the layout of the hotels extremely well—back hallways, kitchens, and entrances. They even knew secret doors in the Taj that very few were…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…e violence set up to protect our spaces. Land developers, civil engineers, city planners, real estate agencies, builders, insurance companies and a whole host of others all profit from our barrier-building and fear-mongering.” Racial antagonism structures our imaginations, as does our love of weapons. The former creates our enemies, and the latter constructs a false sense of independence and freedom. One of my neighbors was in a Target store recen…