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London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ion away. Of course, however well they may or may not have worked in the past, institutionalized structures for venting or swallowing underclass rage are not the answer. One wishes that some productive combination of government attention and grassroots organization might allow things like education, opportunity, and economic equity to transform so much misdirected pain and anger into lives of meaning and purpose. Otherwise, whoever picked the Clas…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…phrasing of the pope’s seemingly revolutionary comment as a rhetorical question stands in sharp contrast to his usual blunt, declarative approach to economic issues, for example. The turn of phrase piqued my curiosity, aroused my suspicion about what he really thinks about same-sex love. I want him and everyone else to judge love positively where and when they find it. A second critical issue raises my suspicion even higher. Auxiliary Bishop Char…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…released a video in which he said: It is astounding to have to say that most Houston citizens – including most Christians and pastors – are still unaware of the radical nature of Mayor Annise Parker’s commitment to imposing the full “San Francisco Style” Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, etc. agenda. … We have a sin-sick city and we need the power of God through Jesus Christ changing lives and changing City Hall! Conservatives have jumped on…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…ature of God, history reveals God’s plan for the human race. The reason to study history is not to understand past events, but to understand God our place in His plan. It is exactly this sacralizing of history that makes organizations like Vision Forum so effective among homeschoolers. Rather than being lost in the mundane trials of everyday life, Christian homeschoolers, and believers who embrace this vision of history, find themselves at the cen…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…ive to lines of celestial longitude and latitude. He (or more likely his best student) wrote a book on the astrolabe, an instrument for telling time and making measurements by the sun or stars. You could even use it to calculate the circumference of the earth, which Gerbert and his peers knew very well was not flat like a disc but round as an apple. Much of this science Gerbert learned as a youth living on the border of Islamic Spain, then an ext…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…on, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with religion. “The larger question is should the state be promoting a religious enterprise like this—especially one that only serves to dumb down science education in the state. It’s a sad comm…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…their new merchandise, the depth and radicality of this real-life “U2charist” struck me. Maybe this dude was the real deal. While waiting for the founder of the ONE anti-poverty campaign, the author of the corporate (RED) campaign against HIV/AIDS, and the role model for American evangelicals (not to mention multi-platinum rock star) to come to stage, my friend proclaimed, “I think Bono just reads poetry when he’s not recording,” barely giving th…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…do implicate their followers. And perhaps the Dead have presented the longest-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 the…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ly 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door. I chatted with an AP reporter and he said AP had been trying for weeks to gain media access—but that he was there to see if he cou…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…bbyist is indeed the brother of uber-Democrat (and former Clinton chief of staff) John Podesta. Is it any wonder that disenchanted voters mutter, “They’re all alike”? It’s Independence Day. Let us soberly consider the state of our democracy to observe that what remains is but a hollow shell. We retain the marble façade of formal democracy, but these well-fed people in no way represent us. They represent the fixers and the string pullers. The ancie…