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The Other Puritan Dinner Party

By Joanna Brooks

…h. Seeing the Dinner Party was, of course, a religious experience, just as Chicago intended it to be. I found myself most captivated by the place setting for Anne Hutchinson (1591 – 1643), the feminist Puritan who led study groups in her own home in Boston and weighed in on thorny theological questions—works versus grace—that divided leaders of church and colony. For the record, Anne Hutchinson stood on the side of grace, communicated immediately…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…do not want to acknowledge among us, very often has a white face—but not always. He is often, but not always, mentally ill. There have been exceedingly rare cases of mass killings by women—the most notable being professor Amy Bishop, who killed three and wounded as many after being denied tenure at the University of Alabama in 2010; and Jennifer San Marco, who “went postal” on seven people before killing herself in Goleta, California in 2006. But…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…gest-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 them in a very vivid way as the “show” is happening. The message: festivity…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…ngelical ways of reasoning fell mute. It seemed to be not just a different way of understanding, but a different way of reasoning altogether. In fact, at the very time Holvast and Spiegel encountered it, the ‘new paradigm’ had just been invented. In the period of the late 1980s through the early 1990s, a group of quintessentially American tinkerers grafted new practices of ‘spiritual mapping’ and ‘spiritual warfare’ onto a peculiar and radical the…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…of 6th and much of 7th grades. Soon after, he started working in the Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre, PAing or ADing on 42nd Street, Tartuffe [Roundabout], Debbie Does Dallas, The Look of Love, The Awesome 80’s Prom, writing the musical book for the Broadway workshop of The Kevin Meaney Show, and producing the off-Broadway run of The Geranium on the Window Sill Just Died while in college. He studied Greek Drama in Athens, Renaissance Art in Flo…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…the dominant brand of today’s Republican Party. For good reason, a growing number of expert observers have begun sounding the alarm. I suggest it’s time we hit the panic button. The rally featured plenty of repugnant elements—from the relentless attacks on transgender youth consistent with fascist scapegoating, to the steady drumbeat of election fraud claims, to accusations that Dr. Fauci engineered Covid-19 in a Chinese lab to help a demonic caba…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…a 2005 conference in Philadelphia marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Detroit women’s ordination conference. At the time I thought perhaps Fresen didn’t understand how ethically problematic such a comparison is: according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, seven thousand black South Africans were killed under apartheid, and the number imprisoned was far higher. The Catholic Church neither kills nor imprisons ordained women and their…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…are winning in state after state. In the past six years, we’ve doubled the number of private school choice programs to 50, the number of private school choice states to 25, plus Washington, D.C., and doubled the number of students currently benefiting from private school choice to 400,000. All told, together, we’ve helped more than a million kids in private school choice programs, and we’re just getting started. “Just getting started”: we should n…