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Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…to the surface. In her debut novel, The Submission, journalist Amy Waldman manages to predict, prepare for, and parse, many of them. We open with a September 11 widow persuading her fellow committee members to vote for one of two remaining designs for a memorial garden, leaving the reader to wonder whether they side with her out of aesthetic agreement or uncomfortable guilt. But when they choose her preferred design, a symmetrical walled garden,…

Coakley v. Brown: Democrats Search (For) Their Souls

By Peter Laarman

…dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. —Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo If former Playgirl centerfold model Scott Brown pulls ahead of Martha Coakley up in Massachusetts today, the Democrats will be lurching from a partial sweaty-palms moment into full headlong panic mode. This will initially be presented in the media as “soul searching.” Of course you cannot find your soul unless you have one,…

Why I’m Not Watching the State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…ar who fail (Dan. 2), and in the religious experts who are condemned (Deut. 18:9-11), who manage the religious system. There may be other examples, but this is a fair sample. Notice the representatives of technique include both religious and secular political experts who believe that the data on hand will provide sufficient knowledge and power, when rightly read, to handle the future. My comments in regard to hope and technique are not so much abo…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…put it: But which Jerusalem does Prime Minister Netanyahu refer to? Before 1967, most of what we now consider Jerusalem was not part of the city, East or West, but part of the West Bank. Israel annexed twenty-eight Palestinian villages after the Six Day War, dramatically expanding the traditional footprint, which has expanded further in the decades since… As emotionally satisfying as it may be for Jews the world over to hear Netanyahu’s defiant c…

RDPulpit: Is Barack Obama a “Fierce Advocate” For Gays or Just Pragmatist-in-Chief?

By Paul Gorrell

…l time as conservatives argue. One of the most effective ways to shut down spirited and intellectual debate is to simply state that one’s religion has led to some specific conclusion. It’s a convenient way to avoid controversy and confrontation. As LGBT folks struggle to obtain marriage rights in what is taking shape as the greatest civil rights battle of his presidency, Obama remains silent [read essays for and against comparisons between the LGB…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…. Let the record show, I was not successful, despite my best intentions. I managed to drop that daughter off just in time to head to Oakland as I had told my middle daughter I would. She needed assistance with the baby because her Canadian in-laws gave her a car, which had to be cleared at customs before local registration. Then we went to the farmers’ market, the flea markets, and the swap meet. She insists on using a baby carrier instead of a st…

Vatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…conduct a formal enquiry into the Marian apparitions that began in June of 1981 outside the small Bosnian town of Medjugorje. One of John Paul II’s favored advisors, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, has been appointed to lead the investigation. Six visionaries reported seeing a white-clad Virgin holding an infant in her arms, countless times and over a period spanning several decades. In the past thirty years, the site has become one of the most important…

SCOTUS Seems to Think You Should Be Forced to Pay For Religious Education

By John Stoehr

…y sharia law. How are they going to distinguish? Not honestly, but they’ll manage. Are we talking about compelling states to fund religious schools and their religious activity but only the right kinds of religions? First comes the shift in free exercise law, which compels everyone—including the secular—to give money not just to schools with religious status, but for religious uses. That line between religious “status” and religious “use”—that gov…

Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…y of those killed or disappeared during Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1964–1985. With such an agenda to fulfill, the CDHM has long been the province of progressive politicians. Indeed, Feliciano’s election is only the second time the Commission has been headed by a right-wing party. But this time, the situation is particularly alarming. Feliciano, an Assembly of God pastor elected in 2011 as a parliamentary representative of the state of Sã…

Watching the Trump Admin’s Coronavirus Response is Like Watching a Bumbling Cult

By Daniel Schultz

…es, citing the low number of confirmed cases as evidence of his ability to manage the crisis. The president is a profoundly ignorant man incapable of understanding that quarantining an entire cruise ship might have dire consequences. He is incapable, really, of understanding much of anything about the true nature of the situation, and he has bent the entire reins of government to the task of maintaining his ignorance. The Inquisition didn’t requir…