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Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…g on context and the familiarity with Jewish culture that had grown in the United States throughout the 1970s; thanks in large part to pop culture phenomena like the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof and the 1978 television miniseries The Holocaust, which was broadcast eight months before “The Craftsman” on NBC. The Unlikely Shtetl of Walnut Grove While much of Mr. Singerman’s Jewish terminology seems calibrated to heighten his otherness within Walnut…

A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…her religious voices. It would require us to face the reality that, in the United States today, Catholics are not oppressed. One aspect of this privilege should be obvious from the fact that, in protesting the event, we were able to march the Blessed Sacrament down the streets of Cambridge in full public view. Another is the ability to dismiss non-Christian religions without proper engagement. Many of my Christian friends, for example, believed th…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ut American religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…e politics that has shaped many of us makes what we say very irrelevant to today’s issues. I think a good part of the church is in denial as to how this country has really changed. I never heard of this Dearborn Awakening event that happened until I read your piece today, but I want to offer an apology for this speaker that lied and confused people. I offer this as a Christian and student of the Word that is called by God to obey and not simply kn…

Heresy, Bad Taste, or Capitalist Adventure: Is it Still Pentecostalism?

By Anthea Butler

…Gospel and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) rests on the elevation and promotion of these practices above all others. The deviations then, are important to understand how Pentecostalism is being reshaped and redefined. Prosperity Gospel The Prosperity Gospel has had several names throughout its history, including the “Health and Wealth Gospel” and the “Word of Faith”. The movement’s Pentecostal antecedents arise out of the healing movements of…

Who Are Michigan Catholic Bishops to Judge?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…touch the lives of the 13,185 people experiencing homelessness in Michigan today. So, while I’m certainly happy every time the United States moves forward as a nation where there is truly “justice for all,” as a more or less practicing Christian, I find relatively little satisfaction in calling out the increasingly obvious thinness of the Michigan bishops’ complaint against Judge Friedman’s ruling. Rather, I am deeply saddened by the degree to whi…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…the spiritual home for many students, staff, and distinguished professors. Today the 800-member church is a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and the world. Below are excerpts from a conversation…

Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…world-turned-upside down. For one day skeletons, ghosts, and monsters can freely and harmlessly roam, simultaneously appeasing and dispelling the power of real demons just a little bit. This sort of release of psychic pressure is a function of ritual throughout history, and shows up frequently in scriptural narrative. In the most honest of all biblical books, Satan (or ha-Satan, the adversary), makes his appearance in Job as a kind of divine liti…

Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…opening for the rise of a powerful 20th century Civil Rights Movement. And today there are thousands of clear-sighted organizers, many of them young people of color, who’ve done their homework and understand the basics of movement-making: the need to engage head, heart, and spirit all at once and to fully understand one’s opposition so as not to be sidetracked, blindsided, seduced into a phony peace. As well, there are plenty of elders, some of th…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…—a group of separatists who hired him to transport them away from England. Today the pub bears the name of that craft—”The Mayflower Pub“—and a copy of the famous compact written aboard that vessel is framed above the establishment’s urinal for any intoxicated customer to peruse. It would, perhaps, be just as well to say that the Mayflower Pub in London is the place where “America was born” as Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. Of course there is no…