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What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…famously said: It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly great moral human being … must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. I write this because a soulless seminary cannot produce fruit. I write because I know that countless alumni, like Emily Hamilton, who recently vowed to withhold her funding, stand with students who oppose the condo project. I write because I…

Pope Warns of “Christianophobia”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he sun was setting over an entire world,” he observed, and the end of that world seemed foreshadowed in disasters both natural and man-made. Christians, we should recall, were on yet ascendant in that world, since the power of their God had not yet risen up over it. In that spirit of brooding retrospect, the Pope, to his credit, turned to what should clearly be a dominant concern for this papacy in this somber time: what he called (echoing Revelat…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…came from Indian gardens. Over Christmas and Easter much of the Christian world will consume celebratory candies, pies, cakes, and soda made from chocolate and corn syrup which also originated from Indian gardens. Of course the pumpkins used for pie and Halloween, the potatoes, corn, squash, and even the pecan pie can be added to that list. They will soothe their swollen heads with aspirin, which is synthetic white willow bark, also brought to th…

Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

By Seth Perry

…st moments and for what will most likely be perceived as its deepest incongruities. The incongruity comes from the ease with which the Ugandans and eventually the missionaries embrace this metaphorical model of religion. The central female character, Nabalungi, takes Cunningham’s stories literally, and against the backdrop of her blighted village sings a wrenching song about reaching the storied paradise, Salt Lake City, where, she imagines, the w…

A Church (Further) Divided: Putin’s Patriarch Now Faces a Rebellion From Within the Russian Orthodox Church

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ointing once again to the deep divides that animate the Orthodox Christian world—both inside and outside of Russia—and play a significant role in the continuing conflict in Ukraine. Despite what some in the Western press have been willing to believe, Patriarch Kirill has not been an advocate for peace. In fact, he has at times seemingly gone out of his way to provoke the situation, conjuring the memory of old hatreds and false histories. This has…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…trying to answer the metaphysical and mythological questions of where the world came from and how. Worlds Without End could be read as an underdog story. Is the multiverse finally having its day? The first serious multiple-worlds scenario to emerge in the modern scientific context was the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics, which Hugh Everett posited in the late 1950s. The next versions to come around were the “new” and “chaoti…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…s, Zionists aimed to colonize Palestine, and the Russians wanted the Bosphorus. World War I gave them their chance. But let’s focus on Iraq. Largely Indian forces, mostly Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus under British command, seized Baghdad from the Ottomans by the end of the First World War. The modern nation of Iraq was born when the British fused three former Ottoman provinces, with major demographic differences between them, and gifted them to a Kin…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…under says, The most relevant, if not the only relevant debate in the Arab world is the debate between secularism and Islamism. It is the one relevant societal line in the Arab world right now… Millions of Arabs are trapped between the reality of their life, the appearances they are supposed to maintain, and the political system meant to enforce those appearances, which is split between plutocracy and theocracy. Yes, this debate should be welcome,…

Without Bev Shea, No Billy Graham

By Douglas Harrison

…the process of becoming one of gospel’s first mega-stars, one foot in the world of revivalistic ministry, the other squarely planted in the post-World War II booming Christian entertainment business, Shea modeled what it looked like for a man of God to be fully in the modern world of getting and spending on a vast new scale—to stand bestride the world of Christian music in the age of mass-market reproduction, at least as much as a single man sing…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…of this tragic path. Though he should be thanked for wanting to wage the struggle with China in economic and not military terms, he ramped up that struggle in the SOTU, warning that the Chinese are outstripping us technologically and we must “win the future,” despite all the risk such belligerent talk entails. Perhaps a foreign policy Niebuhrian can be expected to do no less. On the other hand, if we reject Niebuhr’s premise of endless conflict in…