Religion Dispatches
…Planet earth is about to become the playground for the Anti-Christ and his New World Order. The church will be raptured before the Anti-Christ appears; and I believe he could be introduced in Europe at any time. Pray up! Pack up! We’re going up…and very soon. I’ll chat with you next week! I hope his followers, for their sakes, didn’t pack up too much stuff, because he was back the very next week with this: If there was ever a time to pray for A…
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…in the workforce grew from 26 to 30 percent during these same years. As a New York Times report lamented back in February, “the college degree is becoming the new high school diploma”: a degree is the minimum required to hold a job, but it is not enough to deliver a reasonable middle-class income. In a recent Harper’s essay, Jeff Madrick accurately describes “get more education” as a cardinal tenet of mainstream economic orthodoxy, even as he pou…
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…sk.” This final conclusion does seem to be accurate. A 2011 article in the New York Times, for instance, reported on the case of a three-year-old who suffered mercury poisoning when her family moved into a Rhode Island apartment that had been the site of ritual mercury use by a former tenant many years earlier. ### Excerpted from When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide by Jay Wexle…
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…their cause is just since God demands justice. This brings us to a recent New York Times article with the curious headline “Suspect in Capitol attack appears to have been a follower of Louis Farrakhan,” whose writers intimate that the suspect in the April 2nd attack that killed a veteran Capitol police officer was motivated by the leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister Louis Farrakhan. The suspect, Joshua Green, described himself on social media…
Read More…eporting, and how Obsession, which Clarion inserted into 28 million home-delivered newspapers shortly before the 2008 election, deeply troubled other Jews. I reported: Now, the content of “Obsession” and its ties to Aish are leading some rabbis to strongly criticize the production — and Aish HaTorah itself —for, as they view it, using a broad brush-stroke to smear the entire Muslim community. Some fear the central role of Aish HaTorah officials in…
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…church. A version of this thesis appeared recently in a highly-circulated New York Times article, which made the bold claim that “Trump is connecting with a different type of evangelical voter” beyond “the churchgoing, conservative activists who once dominated the G.O.P.” Despite its zombie-like resurrections since Trump’s rise to power, the assertion that unchurched White evangelicals are the most supportive of Trump is not supported by the prep…
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News of Václav Havel’s death arrived just days after the New York Times literally stopped the presses to report on the death of the brilliant, caustic, maddening intellectual iconoclast Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens and Havel shared a fierce and fearless opposition to tyrannies, whether from the right or left. For me, Havel’s passing brings a more reflective sadness, a sense of what he could yet have taught Americans about the moral responsibil…
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The New York Times, the gray champion of moderate reform, has done the impossible: they’ve found a Gandhi scholar who managed to make the Mahatma, our greatest hero of radical resistance, endorse the critics of Occupy Wall Street. “Gandhi did not believe in enemies: he worked on the premise that solutions emerged only from cooperation,” writes Ian Desai in a recent Times op-ed. He goes on to claim that Gandhi’s slogan would have been “We are the…
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…even more married Catholic priests in America,” as Mark Oppenheimer of the New York Times reported, suggesting that “married priests raise provocative questions for the Catholic Church.” Oppenheimer asked: First, are they doing as good a job as other priests? If the church has decided that celibacy confers certain gifts on priests, does it follow that married priests are worse at serving their congregations? Second, wouldn’t celibate priests be a…
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…d reflect on it. I do think the reverberations will be broad and deep. The New York Times editorialized on Thursday that these 17 words from the ruling might someday be recalled as historic: “Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and women.” I think what might become equally memorable is Judge Walker’s very clear statement that the sole source of this moral disapproval is religion and traditional morality….
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