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Bin Laden’s Death: Redress of a Wrong Suffered

By Pamela R. Lightsey

Last night, nine years, seven months and twenty days after September 11, 2001, President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a targeted military action in Pakistan. One principle of just war theory has been fulfilled: To redress a wrong suffered. As a veteran of the United States Army, and one whose son served in the US Army during the first days of the war in Iraq, for all the many nights I fell asleep looking at the news hop…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…survived. But he lost. He’ll carry that loss with him for the rest of his days. Albeit in a drastically different way, we, as a country, will forever carry that loss as well. Whether we are armed like Kenneth Walker, disarmed like Martin Luther King Jr. or completely dismembered, I know America will never see Black people as non-combatants. I am not pessimistically suggesting we will never be seen as humans, or live free from racist violence, or…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…d to be a different dimension of time. Sacred time was not “profane” time (days, weeks, months, years). Rather, it was understood to be an infinite, primordial sort of time. Hierophanies were the phenomena that appeared between sacred and profane dimensions of time. They were what connected them. Here, in our profane stretch of days, the hierophany was an interruption of our diurnality. For Kobuta, it would seem, the jellyfish disrupt his sense of…

Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

…ion led state legislators to permanently shelve it. The battle was over in days, and none of the soldiers in this war learned anything. As both sides regroup for the next mêlée, they might consider a new strategy. Before one side tries to install Christianity in state constitutions, and before the other side denounces their opponents as the Christian Taliban, both sides might survey the lessons of American religious history and consider another ta…

Keep it Catholic, Catholics: A Response to Michael Sean Winters’ Attack on Frances Kissling in America

By Mary E. Hunt

…tute for reasoned arguments. We were coached to avoid ad hominem (in those days we did not imagine ad feminam) arguments at all costs since they insulted our worthy opponents and made clear that we were out of ideas to bolster our own positions. In the rough and tumble of real world debates, it is training that has stood me in good stead. Imagine my surprise to read on the Jesuit magazine America’s blog a recent post by Michael Sean Winters in whi…

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet

By Edward J. Blum

…d so by claiming that Jesus was the first Communist; and by the end of his days, he wrote in his final autobiography that he loved living “spiritually” as much as physically. There is an avalanche of evidence that shows that Du Bois thought deeply about religion and religious issues, and to disregard that is to do him and our society a disservice. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I was writing for several audiences; first and…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…different church owner, but a similar set-up. A lot of these churches nowadays, especially around here, don’t have a huge congregation, maybe it’s 50 to 80 people. They really just want to use the buildings one or two days a week and have an office and a little chapel, and the rest of the space is beautifully set up for events and concerts. It’s kind of a perfect fit, depending on the architectural style. That’s the market we’re seeing here. They…

No Father, The Gay Sky Isn’t Falling

By Jay Michaelson

…e desperate reasoning one hears from Catholic Church spokesmen [sic] these days, affirming the Vatican’s staunch opposition to civil same-sex marriage. Quoth Fr. Federico Lombardi, Director of the Vatican Television Centre (if we watch television, why not also visit strip clubs?): It is a question of admitting that a husband and a wife are publicly recognized as such; and that children who come into the world can know, and say they have, a father…

All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America

By Mary Valle

…th deep “pagan” or “old religion” roots and the site of two Catholic feast days commemorating our dead friends and allies: All Souls’ Day on November 1, and All Saints’ Day on November 2. As a bonus, October 31 marks the kickoff of the Reformation, when Luther posted his theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, in large part to protest the Church’s sale of indulgences. Halloween is a little troublesome to me as well—mostly because it…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…promise to establish a presidential commission on religious liberty. Three days after signing, Gingrich released a 20-page white paper laying out his plan to institute a Presidential Commission on Religious Freedom on the very first day of his presidency. Gingrich’s document maintains that “the foundations for religious freedom in America are being eroded” as “[t]he meaning of the First Amendment has been twisted to fit a post-modern world.” Echoi…