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

By Sophie Gherardi

…new name Charlie Hebdo, the magazine was our weekly delight; I mean we, post-’68 students in Paris. Its reporters were such naughty, nasty, funny boys; such talented cartoonists, such incredible columnists. Of course, they hated any kind of bigotry and specialized in sexually explicit, anti-religious jokes and cartoons. Want to hear one? (And you should see it, too, as it was the cover picture of the December 16, 1976 issue, a friend of mine dug…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…ouchscreens have to do with encyclicals? This would have been an absurd question just ten years ago. But for today’s wired believers, if you don’t have a digital device, you probably won’t even read those encyclicals. Paper is so yesterday. The Pope’s 2011 observations about the dangers of social media are fairly astute, even if they do reflect a growing fatigue. He recognizes that social networking can offer new forms of relationships, but he cau…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…Church representatives turned away nearly two hundred Mormon women seeking stand-by tickets to a restricted men’s-only session of the faith’s semi-annual global conference. Mormon women travelled from as far away as New York, Florida, and Germany to take part in the collective action organized by the group Ordain Women as a gentle and symbolic demonstration against pervasive gender segregation in LDS Church administration and leadership. All obser…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…cated near Mumbai and Westerner-friendly. In fact, both had developed an East-West hybridity that extended from Americans in key leadership roles to a spiritual eclecticism with room for Jesus, New Age and Zen. So after flying 20-plus hours from Los Angeles to Mumbai and driving another eight hours to Pune, I’d dropped half of the students at the rural Ananda retreat and alighted at Osho with the rest. The Osho International Meditation Resort is a…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…the event, Seidel noted that “Texas is evolving into a Christian nationalist state, a lone star theocracy.” He told RD that Americans United believes strongly in taking the fight to red states that some might be tempted to write off as hopeless. Ever sharp with the facts at his fingertips, Seidel also noted that over 5 million Texans voted for Biden in 2020, insisting that there are no truly red or blue states, and that marginalized folks in GOP-…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ion away. Of course, however well they may or may not have worked in the past, institutionalized structures for venting or swallowing underclass rage are not the answer. One wishes that some productive combination of government attention and grassroots organization might allow things like education, opportunity, and economic equity to transform so much misdirected pain and anger into lives of meaning and purpose. Otherwise, whoever picked the Clas…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…phrasing of the pope’s seemingly revolutionary comment as a rhetorical question stands in sharp contrast to his usual blunt, declarative approach to economic issues, for example. The turn of phrase piqued my curiosity, aroused my suspicion about what he really thinks about same-sex love. I want him and everyone else to judge love positively where and when they find it. A second critical issue raises my suspicion even higher. Auxiliary Bishop Char…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…ature of God, history reveals God’s plan for the human race. The reason to study history is not to understand past events, but to understand God our place in His plan. It is exactly this sacralizing of history that makes organizations like Vision Forum so effective among homeschoolers. Rather than being lost in the mundane trials of everyday life, Christian homeschoolers, and believers who embrace this vision of history, find themselves at the cen…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…on, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with religion. “The larger question is should the state be promoting a religious enterprise like this—especially one that only serves to dumb down science education in the state. It’s a sad comm…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…do implicate their followers. And perhaps the Dead have presented the longest-standing, oddest, and most enriching alternative to more conventional ways of nurturing an audience. In the midst of confusing times, when the powers will have their way and get their revenge, when the rich retreat to their empty homes, “the kids they dance, they shake their bones.” This lyric (written by Barlow) from “Throwing Stones” identifies Deadheads implicates the…