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The Bishops Did Send a Message with Their Vote on Biden and Communion; Are We Sure It Was The One They Intended?

By Daniel Schultz

…over and over to their laity their irrelevance. When John F. Kennedy ran for president, he had to assure the American public that he would not kowtow to the bishops’ mandates. When Biden was elected, the nation mostly shrugged at his Catholicism, and the stories of his run-ins with the hierarchy barely last a few news cycles. By the time we get a third Catholic president, voters are going to ask “What’s a bishop again, and why do we care what they…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…ttempt to shut down the event. Sullivan would have been a-okay with the disruption if the students had just been less… disruptive about it. And to the silly implication that anyone was merely protesting “the right… to publish data,” there’s the following passage of the letter signed by over 50 Middlebury faculty: Mr. Murray is, as you know, a discredited ideologue paid by the American Enterprise Institute to promote public policies targeting peopl…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…tism fixed its sights on the past or a new political future. Conservatives read it both ways depending on their own politics. Even Buckley’s newly heroic conservative who yells “Stop” at history can be read both ways. If, as Buckley implies in the statement, the New Deal was a perversion of sacred American political values, then is bold action to recover past political traditions properly called conservative in the Burkean sense or revolutionary i…

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…fulfilling every major value of the great spiritual traditions: intimacy, trust, a shared vision, cooperation, collaboration, friendship, and ultimately love. That’s Gafni in 2012, in an interview with Mackey and Sisodia for Conscious Capitalism. Conscious businesses, according to Mackey and Sisodia, are “suffused with higher purpose” and “leavened with authentic caring.” Examples include Whole Foods Market, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, and, som…

To the One-Percenters, With Love

By Garret Keizer

…and you say there’s a tumor on the prefrontal lobe. How is it that you can read charts and graphs, but cannot read the signs of the times? Nice sermon there, but do you see me on the street holding a placard? Heavens, no. I have work to do. I have a deadline to meet. The cities are so far from where I live. I hate crowds. And I don’t want to be one of these nostalgic old lefties who showed up at the encampments hoping to catch a little limel…

Ramadan: Third Day is the Charm

By Amina Wadud

…he intention was to eat it all, in addition to our family traditional fast-breaking fruit salad, the meal that followed prayer, and then the stash. But the stomach was NOT having it. There it was every chip, every cookie, every piece of cake, every bit of candy, waiting and now permissible, but the stomach just could not hold as much as the eye had coveted during the daylight hours. I don’t know if children who do not fast have this experience — y…

Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%

By J. Dana Trent

…link in the COVID-19 conversation: there’s ultimately no if in dying. Amid breaking news conveying the intricacies of epidemiology, public health policy, and economic implications to Americans hoarding Lysol wipes, the reality of human fragility is on mute. There have been few attempts to grapple with America’s belief in its own invincibility. Author and RD contributor J. Dana Trent wants to change that. Though we’d rather die than talk about dyin…

Can Poetry Heal the Planet?

By Gary Gach

…brokenhearted and the dying. Speaking about this during one of his public readings of Breaking the Drought, he says: There is no time in which we have a higher opportunity of wisdom and freedom than in aging. We have perspective, a time to see things we have loved fallen away. We can protect nothing from death and impermanence. [It’s] a place of surrender in which surrender is not defeat. We don’t even know we can do in the face of the Beloved. Y…

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…erns, the obesity epidemic, and high rates of diabetes, and that would be true. I could write my hope that changes in farm policy and market innovations could ensure that quality food access is not the privilege of the wealthy. That ex-offenders could emerge from prison to transform urban neighborhoods through working in and managing community gardens, that millions of jobs could be created for those too often edged out of the economy by “agripren…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…nd Jews. He also believes that “the creation of nations was God’s idea.” Cyrus-type rulers of sheep nations are needed to ensure that Christian values are protected and that the modern State of Israel would be respected. Of course it should be noted that their reference to the modern State of Israel is bound to their view of ancient Israel as depicted in the Bible, and their portrayal of Jewish people is far removed from the contemporary religious…