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Travolta Airlifts Scientology, Supplies, to Haiti

By Becky Garrison

…rganizations like Doctors without Borders face difficulties landing their planes, Travolta has apparently “arranged for a plane to take down some volunteer ministers and some supplies and some medics.” Travolta is not the only Scientologist who is clear about the need to provide services to Haiti. According to a press release issued by the Church of Scientology, “Teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers from throughout the U.S., Mexico, Europe and…

Sacred&Profane: Wilco Worship and the “Churn” in American Religion

By Gary Laderman

…en more specifically, seeking signs of religious life among the increasing number of those who self-identify with no religion. In order to pursue that path, we have to do away with one of the most obfuscating, irritating, and limiting words bandied about by too many in public discourse: faith and faith communities. In the land of no religion, faith, as a domesticated catchword for Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus of every stripe and…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…ss prevalent in the Orthodox community than anywhere else; but there are a number of peculiarities to Orthodox Jewish life that have made the reporting of abuse less common than in society at large. “I think the subject of abuse is probably the same in any religious community,” says Michael Salomon, a Long Island psychiatrist, who has just finished working on an as-yet-unpublished book about sexual abuse in the Orthodox world. “Different religions…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…ebate but it is between the mental health establishment and a much smaller number of traditionally minded religious therapists. However, even if Spiegel had correctly identified the nature and participants in the debate, she still would not have gotten it quite right. To his credit, Schumacher-Matos does a better job when he reviews material given to him by Spiegel and her editor Anne Gudenkauf. Among other things, Schumacher-Matos read an article…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…Rev. Vanessa Lovelace, PhD Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Lancaster Theological Seminary The Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt President, Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley CA Leah Gunning Francis, PhD VP for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Christian Theological Seminary Rev. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, PhD Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, Chicago Theological Seminary Rev. Yolanda Pierce, PhD, Pro…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…ican ethos. So that interested parties can connect with each other, she’s planned events in Portland (June 10-12) and Baltimore (September 24th-25). Concurrent with these developments, in fall 2010, Church Publishing (publisher for the US Episcopal Church) will partner with UK based SCM-Canterbury Press to launch the Mission-shaped Church Series in the United States. The goal is to finally make key resources from the UK Fresh Expressions movement…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…elated article, in which “No Popery” was quoted as a cry often heard in England a full a century before. Provocative on the cover, the caption was shown to be an archaism on the pages within. By the end of the article, readers found Pius XI described favorably as “a Pontiff who permits baseball to be played in the Vatican grounds and who enjoys watching the game from his window.” The ambivalent relationship between the leader of the Roman Catholic…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…a series of lesser earthquakes in and around London, as well as in New England, was further evidence that God’s judgment was raining down on human sin and calling for a universal repentance, as the world drew to an end. In regard to Lisbon, both shared the anti-Catholic perspective typical of Protestantism at the time (and still lingering with us) that Lisbon, a center for the Inquisition, was a hotbed of idolatry precisely in the very devotion o…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…r prayers. But these ultra-devout performers share a peculiar space with a number of other artists whose personal faiths are inconsequential to their public personae but whose fluency in the holy plays out in, well, mysterious ways. Lana Del Rey’s catalogue runs deep with both religious imagery and sentiment; waves of apostasy crash over moments of divine revelation and then reverse course back into faith again. She may have claimed “God’s dead…[a…