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The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…azing group. I’d like to give credit where credit is due, one of the ushers, before, wrapped it all up, you can use sentences and sentences….someone, someone was talking about music and this usher said, ‘The Grateful Dead aren’t just music they are an environment,’ which is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.” ~Music Promoter Bill Graham, April 29, 1971 One sentence, spoken by an anonymous “usher” to a maverick producer who then riffed to bo…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…not the “untrammeled” sort that led to the willy-nilly execution of blacks, men, and the poor. By 1973, nine states had already abolished the death penalty. After the Furman decision, 35 states drew up new death penalty laws, 20 of them with mandatory death sentences, and 15 with various attempts to “guide” jury discretion toward more consistent judgments. Several states had more distinctive histories. New Jersey scrapped its death penalty and di…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…emeanor above, for example, with the sentiments that Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, co-chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, expressed in an interview for Progressive & Religious: I don’t want to be a part of anything anymore in my life that makes those boundaries barriers. I don’t want to be defined as right or left. I want to be defined as a Christian with the world in mind. The people who are really leaders are trying to move us all wit…

When the ‘Biblical View’ for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at Birth

By Jonathan Dudley

…us 21:22–24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense… Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.” A 1967 issue of the evangelical magazine Christian Life went even further, castigating Catholics for their non-biblical stance: “The Bible definitely pinpoints a difference in the value of a fetus and an adult. Thus, the Bible would appear to disagree with the official Catholic view that the tiniest fe…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…ll of six million, while Plan B was to kill only acutely guilty SS soldiers, numbering in the thousands. As Kovner met with Yishuv leaders it was clear that while there may have been sympathy with Plan A, only Plan B would receive the support of even the angriest of Palestine’s Jewish community. Plan B’s support came from leadership of the Haganah, the fighting force that would eventually lead the 1948 war. The Yishuv, itself working to unify Pale…

Allah Made Me Funny: Borscht Belt Goes Halal

By Hussein Rashid

…s going to need something more organic. We have musicians, actors, athletes, etc., all over the country. Maybe we need to start giving them more support. We also need to give recognition to shows that portray Muslims positively, not just condemn negative portrayals. When I say positive, I do not mean necessarily as Muslims can do no wrong, but that Muslims are people, who struggle with their conscience like every other person. IV. When Luke finall…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…left soon after, citing concerns about transparency within the organization, reservations about working with Marc Randazza, and a lack of leadership roles for minorities. The chapter formed its own group called The Satanic Collective. Although the chapters defected for different reasons, Jezebel ran a headline describing TST as “engulfed in a civil war.” Ahead of this story, Jex Blackmore published an essay explaining her reasons for leaving, whil…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…atches have any wishes for the coming year, it’s that their efforts and the blood of the victims not be wasted. Be better, 2019, be best!…

Material(ist) Girl: A Philosopher Argues Against the Soul

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y this discussion. Of course, he didn’t immediately change his mind and say, “Oh, yeah, you’ve got to be right.” Which is fine—it takes time to get used to these things. But, I think it did motivate him to be very worried that there perhaps was not this nonphysical thing that had all the properties of personality and mood and temperament and learning that got transferred. Interesting, given that Tibetan Buddhists believe that the Dalai Lama himsel…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…roles in the racialization and, at times, sexualization of native-born men, women, and children. Into the twentieth century, it was marked by a failure of the archdiocese to curb the near-feudal styles of governance wielded by priests in some rural parishes, and to respect local lay forms of Catholic authority. At midcentury it was marked by the Paracletes’ purchase of two thousand acres of “free and available” land in a “safely remote” location…