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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…of violence in which “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” was the most offensive line in the essay. Also troubling to many readers was Gandhi’s assertion that Nazi murder of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews “was the result of the warped mind of an individual.” To reduce a profound historical question—what enables genocide in the context of war?—to a psychological formula seems facile at best. Deborah Howell, the ombudsman of the Washington Pos…

Art as Religion, Museum as Temple

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n into the museum complex that still bears his name: the Museo Pio-Clementino. And that is still the very heart of the Vatican Museums today. So a Rabbi and a Pope had a quick quarrel about the Ten Commandments in front of the first public art museum in the world. Where they disagreed most sharply was over the status of the second commandment. In the late 18th century, Art was being subtly detached from Religion, the Christian religion that is, as…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…ternatives to abortion [which] will make abortions much less likely, since most abortions are economic.” A few weeks later, just thirty-four days before the election, that argument became even stronger. On October 3, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine published a study with profound implications for policy making in the United States. According to Dr. Jeffery Peipert, the study’s lead author, abortion rates can be expected…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…” Baptism by affusion (that’s the sprinkling of water that you will see in most Western churches, both Catholic and Protestant) initially emerged as a concession, probably in the 2nd century, but ultimately became the standard practice of the Western church by the 10th century. That being said, many Protestant traditions, particularly those who rejected the baptism of infants, eventually returned to full-immersion baptism. It’s the medieval, pre-R…

Are School Districts Getting the Message on Government-Sponsored Prayer?

By Lauri Lebo

…religious freedom.” Scales said he received plenty of feedback Wednesday, mostly from people upset over the public prayer ban. “I would [expect] that because it’s a part of the culture here, it’s a part of the landscape,” he said. “That’s probably one of the reasons it has not been addressed publicly by the school administration or the school board in the past, because it was so widely accepted. No one exercised the right to protest. “Now that it…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sexuality. Countries that criminalise LGBT people tend to retain these (in most cases, imported) laws due to a conservative populace. Majoritarian views opposing homosexuality may be based on a belief that it subverts the natural order, a belief also deemed immoral by most interpretations of major religious texts. World Congress of Families The World Congress of Families’ annual global summit of anti-LGBT social conservatives is being held in Tbil…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…re marginalized by the academics, despite having blogs that rank among the most popular on the Web. It was a Bloggergate. “I get so irritated by the dismissive, uninformed male bloggers dismissing the mommy bloggers who are KICKING THEIR TRASH,” one woman wrote in the comments section of the original RD story. “I’d be willing to bet that [Times and Seasons and By Common Consent] receive exponentially more hits per day than all of the blogs mention…

On the Taliban’s Hit List: An Exiled Pakistani Singer’s Plea to Save Music

By Austin Dacey

…da Upon hearing the harmonium in person for the first time, what struck me most was the softness of its timbre. Neither the anguished stab of the bandoneon of Argentine tango nor the nostalgic lilt of the musette of the French cafe, it was a voice tender and steady, grieved yet resilient, made wise by the years; the voice of a teacher, a traveler. Now even this humble instrument has been enlisted as an unlikely combatant in the struggle for the fu…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…ing to be optimistic about. That’s usually a function of their time frame. Most arrived at their current position only some time in the 21st century—many in the last four or five years. Before their change of heart, most weren’t even aware of the decades-old Jewish-American peace movement, so they can only compare the situation now with what it was a few years ago when they joined the effort for peace with such high hopes. Naturally they are dishe…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…embly, the sisters officially called for gun control legislation and signed 800 postcards demanding Congress members to pass immigration reform. As LCWR past-president, Sr. Pat Farrell said to the Assembly, “Expressing what we really think and feel, with transparency and vulnerability, is for the brave of heart. It is, however, what we are being asked to do in our current conflict. All of a sudden the world is looking to us.” Like this story? You…