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In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…e. “Good,” he replied. Early Indian media coverage, as well as state and central government relief efforts, focused on the famous site of Kedarnath and the plight of those visitors to Uttarakhand who needed to be physically rescued. In 2013, even Himalayan pilgrimage tours can reasonably be expected to be somewhat safe, beyond the occasional threat of landslide—it is not like in earlier days when setting out on pilgrimage meant the possibility o…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…ts a hearty laugh from almost every visitor. That’s a useful reminder of a central significance of guns that non-gun-owners often forget: They’re fun. They’re owned and used largely for sport. And when they’re not being used, guns can be fondled for the pure pleasure of it. The fun aspect, too, is largely seen as a “guy thing,” even when the gun owners are women. Teddy Roosevelt knew all this very well when he led his well-armed Rough Riders up S…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…isters’ Conference has long “sought to address the growing concerns of the African-American church and its relationship to the community.” During the civil rights era, the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr. were in attendance and in later years, stalwarts of the institutional Black Church such as Revs. Wyatt Tee Walker, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have attended and spoken as well. The Hampton Ministers’ Conference, as it is colloquially referred t…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…. Now, just as in the Victorian era, familial presence with the dying is a central feature of our Good Death narratives. But many who die of COVID-19 will die in isolation in a hospital ICU. Families will be unable to attend the bedside of their dying loved one. Hospitals will be largely closed to visitors due to risk of contagion. Many family members will be in quarantine themselves because of their exposure to someone with a positive diagnosis….

By the Way: Mitt Romney’s Coming Out

By Randall Balmer

…e he was pandering after the support of the religious right, Kennedy’s two central arguments—unequivocal affirmation of the separation of church and state and the promise not to use taxpayer funds for religious schools—were unavailable to Romney. Leaders of the religious right reject both of those fundamental American principles. Romney’s refusal to engage the issue of his faith has made him appear evasive, which only exacerbates the impression th…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…ured is still not clear. In March there were similar riots in Meikitla, in central Burma south of Mandalay, which left forty-four people dead and thousands of homes consumed in flames. Last year’s conflict in Burma’s western Rakhine state, also saw thousands of homes destroyed and roughly a hundred thousand people displaced—mostly Muslims—in ethnic violence between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas. There has been violence on both sides. Rece…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…ip with the industrialist drumbeat that is standard time. Timekeepers call central clocks “master clocks,” and others “slave clocks.” Through Thompson’s lens, these expressions look all too descriptive. It’s a potent analysis. Standard time does allow for new negotiations between individuals and groups. It allows authority figures to shape the schedules of people—to make them, in a word, disciplined. Often, that discipline clashes with other, more…

SCOTUS’ Bladensburg Cross Ruling Is a Church-State Mess

By Andrew L. Seidel

…that Establishment Clause law is fractured and unintelligible because the central test in that area is too. As I wrote back in February, the problem is not with the Lemon test, but with the Court’s unwillingness to apply that test. Instead, the court seeks to reverse engineer politically popular outcomes. At oral argument, justices and attorneys attacked Lemon repeatedly, but continued to come back to its core principles: no religious purpose, no…

Justice Denied by the “Culture of Life”

By Tom Davis

…not a scriptural term. While life is affirmed in scripture, it is not the central value. That central value is love for God, for the neighbor and the self. Love in social relationships is expressed as justice; a far cry from love, but yet the best approximation to it to which we can aspire. The Bible focuses over and over on a culture of justice. And justice is enjoined most strongly for those to whom the world does not want to accord justice: th…

Dispatches from the Cutting Edge of Healing: Surgery and Spirit

By Lori Alvord

…ies, that inform the way I think about, and practice surgery. For example, central to Navajo healing philosophies is the concept of hozho, a way of living that encompasses concepts of beauty, harmony, truth, balance, and peace. We believe we are deeply connected to all elements of our world—we are not separate from that which is around us. It has been described as: “to be at one with… the world around you in such a way that the notes of your life…