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Jewishness Per Square Inch, Medieval Edition

By Sara Lipton

…ut Jews in art, I realized that the sermons I had been reading explained a great deal. Five hundred years of dizzyingly dense imagery suddenly began to make sense. I shared my ideas with a very good friend – the friend to whom I dedicated Dark Mirror – and he encouraged me to write the book. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That medieval pictures of Jews are not straightforward images of what Jews looked like, or even how C…

RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…how it sounds.) Bloggers report, and reporters blog. And as Carr puts it: “great digital journalists consume and produce content at the same time, constantly publishing what they are reading and hearing.” A hearty religiously-unaffiliated Amen to that. While strategies and circumstances evolve, there are core aspects of RD’s mission that remain constant. We aim to be part of a new way of thinking about religion in public; we’re committed to the id…

Forty Years Ago, the Worst Mass Murder of LGBT People in the U.S.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ting in the bar Sunday mornings. As Diane Anderson-Mishnall explains, in a great article for the Advocate, the MCC was only at the bar because their former building had been set on fire three times. The article includes a heartbreaking picture of pastor Bill Larson—his charred body hanging out of a window as he tried to escape the flames. He was unable to get out because the window had been barred, but the photo captures his desperate attempt to e…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…ding, writing, and civics. And I am horrified by the the sharp drop in the number of undergraduates majoring in humanities and the brutal paring of humanities faculties even at liberal arts schools. But God help us if we think the only way to save humanities education is to corrupt it utterly by stressing the cash value—or the national security value—of brushing up our Shakespeare. It is obvious to all that one big reason fewer undergrads take hum…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…e that believe. Burton is right to implore non-theists to “engage with the great questions—and questioners—of history on their own terms.” But to discuss the great questions and questioners in the past tense is to suggest that the most important theological questions have already been asked and answered. Theological inquiry has present and pressing applications in the world and we would be wise not to leave all the fun to historians and the clergy…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…conclusions from the fact, except to document, describe and underscore the great lengths he went to conceal the fact. *Baker asserts that, much to his own surprise, Richard Nixon while no innocent, was not the instigator of the Watergate crimes and the cover-up, but appears to have been set-up. What’s more, some of the seeming good guys, were not, and much of what seemed to be, was not as it seemed. Among those he implicates in the set-up are Popp…

Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done

By David Gushee

…opinion and today in the Supreme Court. Many are already arguing about the great damage that will be done to marriage with today’s decisions. I would suggest that a more important damage to Christian witness in American culture has already been done, not by the Supreme Court but by the Christian activists; and not just today but for a generation or more. And that damage will intensify in proportion to the Christian outcry in days to come. What has…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…t Islamist, and not explicitly secularist. Moreover, there are of course a number of practical reasons the Islamist parties may have done so well: they are well-organized, they have great social service and charity programs, and they have won the respect of many of their fellow citizens for their years facing oppression, discrimination, and outright torture. Once they’re actually in government, they will be judged on their performance, and not on…

Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

By Marcia Pally

…er in his pocket—which he often did. That got civil rights legislation and Great Society programs through a Congress far more racist and sexist than today’s. But it could be ugly going. The Clintons have some of that power sense, which is the up and downside. Do Democrats vote for Hillary because she’s got the clout to implement party policy—even if that clout comes with big-money, big-lobby dealings and dubious donations and ethics? Said another…

Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…humanist—or, at least, about two-thirds of me is. I’m an academic in that great behemoth we call “the humanities”; a humanist by training. I’ve spent inordinate amounts of time reflecting on human conditions, and ambitions. This has, for me and many humanists, always been a rather “secular” enterprise. But I’ve often been quite religious, almost devotional, in my quest to become more fully human. In recent years, however, I’ve been increasingly t…