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The End of the Beginning: The Coming of Egypt’s “Wise Men”

By H.A. Hellyer

…en and women as heroes – and few could deny their bravery, the strength of spirit, or their power of soul. Especially, and particularly, after violence was sent against them. As yet, though, these men and women, who have come from all walks of life and backgrounds, have not provided leaders for themselves. Perhaps somewhere in those crowds are the seeds of a new political party, or people whose names will be known for decades to come – but so far,…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ook place in Detroit, Michigan; the eponymous organization arose from that spirited event. WOC sponsored another meeting in 1978 in Baltimore where women were very specific about the kind of renewed priestly ministry they would accept: one without clericalism, without mandatory celibacy, without hierarchy, but with the inclusion of all and a focus on social justice. WOC became the go-to organization on these matters, holding subsequent meetings an…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…nprovoked attack which murdered civilians indiscriminately. As we enter the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s beginning, Faust writes of the reenactors who obsess over every detail of their uniforms and bullets: They will in these myriad details get history just right. But what will they understand of war?? . . . Will the reenactors tell only an old “battle piece” of courage and glory and how sweet and proper it is to die? Will we in this histo…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n Alabama that Supreme Court justices had little place at such partisan affairs; his decision to attend the State of the Union address may have been, in part, a response to this most welcome gesture toward bipartsanship. It was telling, too, that the most partisan of our current justices (Alito, Scalia, and Thomas) chose to stay away. Still, this decision did leave people in the audience wondering when, and if, to clap. The President’s joke about…

From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…riage provides these statistics for the year 2000: *Utah’s marriage rate is 10.6 per 1,000 populations, well above that of the United States, which stands at 8.7 *Median age at first marriage in Utah—Groom: 23 Bride: 21 *Median age at first marriage in United States—Groom: 26.8 Bride: 25.1 Marriages contracted so early face significant challenges, so it is good that the Mormon church does not forbid divorce, although the fact that Mormon couples o…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…n beings can become like God, who is also married and who is literally our spiritual father in heaven: with his many wives, he not only created but procreated the spirit of every person born physically onto this Earth. Proving oneself worthy of the right to do the same thing in another corner of the universe is, in Mormon belief, the goal and purpose of our mortal existence. The film argues that because gay people cannot procreate on their own, th…

The Morning After

By Amina Wadud

…s right now. For one thing, I really did take this as a good thing, in the spirit of the early warning system. Since the time my friend said, you have to be invited by Allah to make the hajj; I have been in various states of preparation. I’ve been preparing to receive the invitation, preparing to recognize it when it is given, and preparing to accept it. I considered it a mandate to do whatever was necessary to put me in the right place for it all…

Boy Gets Boy, Saves Earth: A Gay Christian Writer’s Plan to Change the World

By Nick Street

…d than simply a royalty check and a green-light from Showtime. “I feel the Spirit with me if I’m really disciplined,” Moore said. “When I was writing the book, I tapped into that, and I’ve definitely felt Him with me as I write this Showtime series. I’ve learned to be very respectful and humble and let these characters tell their stories through me.” If Moore’s spiritual passion enlivens his storytelling, then the narrative forms that have captiva…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…“40 percent of the ceremonies are Jewish, only 17 percent are Episcopalian, 15 percent are Catholic, 13 percent are other Protestant, and 15 percent are non-religious or non-denominational.” Twelve years later, Jews remain in the lead, although with only 26 percent of the ceremonies. The other cohorts lost statistical heft, too, as 10 percent are Episcopalian, 16 percent are Catholic or Greek Orthodox, 21 percent are other Protestant, and another…

Christianity Without the Cross

By Rosemary Ganley

…logne. Could there be a connection that one hundred years later, Pope Urban 11 launched the first crusade promising Christian warriors paradise after death? “But the death of Jesus was not a key to meaning, not an image of devotion for the Christians of the first millennium,” Parker and Brock write. “He was risen, a healer, baptized, a shepherd, a teacher, and a friend.” This book is a rock-the-foundations work. Christians have been thoroughly tau…