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When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…Muslim man in a wheelchair on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French baby-boomers’ favorite satirical magazine? Don’t bother looking for any deep symbolism—you won’t find it. Anybody in France immediately recognized the resemblance to the poster for Intouchables (The Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically co…

Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground

By E. David Morgen

Since 2002, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has become a summer rite for thousands who flock to 700 acres of farmland near Manchester, Tennessee, for four days in June. Some 150 acts—from the biggest names in rock and popular music to the latest comers in the indie scene—perform on seven stages all day and into the long, long night. The crowds milling across the festival landscape make the human landscape as impressive a spectacle as the aur…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…ive.” Silence from the cacophony of networking is exactly what he’ll have soon—we should all be so lucky. This difficult relationship of the Church to technology has dogged Benedict from the very beginning of a tenure in which he’s had to oversee an avalanche of change that was only hinted at when he was selected. The previous pontiff, Pope John Paul II, saw the creation of the Vatican’s website in 1994, not long after the Internet became availabl…

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. Jericho Marches are organized by a group by the same name. They were created by a coalition of Christian nationalists in the US. They are co-led by a Catholic think-tank writer, Arina Grossu of the Family Research Cou…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…llowing it, the saga of the banned drag show fundraiser at West Texas A&M took a new twist on Wednesday when Andrew Seidel—a constitutional lawyer, RD senior correspondent, and vice president of strategic communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State—paid a visit to West Texas A&M to give a supportive address to the student groups fighting the ban. For those unfamiliar with this story, here’s the broad outline. LGBTQ stude…

Detroit’s Baggy Pants Fatwa

By Svend White

…itations to young men who make the mistake of wearing their pants hanging too low. Young people in Detroit are getting stopped by police and threatened with fines or even jail time for repeated offenses. The ACLU has taken up their cause, viewing this as a violation of their civil rights. The aforementioned regimes are well known for enforcing strict, puritanical dress codes on their citizenry. Saudi Arabia’s toleration of the feared muttawi‘in (“…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…e truth of the Bible. We can’t condone heresy but we need to give God the room to move in people’s hearts, if that’s indeed what’s happening.” He concluded by saying that while he wants to wait and see if Beck’s professed faith in Jesus is “real,” he is “very encouraged by the movement all around the country to get back to the foundations of our country. God is using Glenn Beck.” It will be interesting to see if Beck’s influence can keep the anti-…

My Value Voter ’rents go Obama

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of simply pulling the same levers voters have always pulled, regardless of the broader issues. It just goes to show, you’re never too old to be schooled by your ’rents….

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…“Hear this, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy…Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!” That’s Amos. Or for a prophet nearer to our own time—and one who saw the rot of democracy with crystal clarity—consider this from Langston Hughes: Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…es. The real story, of course, lies somewhere in between. This weekend, I looked for it among the thousands of Mormons who flocked to Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City for the Saturday afternoon General Conference sessions. On Saturday afternoon at Temple Square, warm winds scattered petals from blooming pear trees as Mormons of every age, shape, and color move between the granite temples and monuments and freshly-planted beds of yellow tul…