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The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…us at certain junctures (e.g. 1863’s explosion of anti-Black violence from Irish workers who saw both enslaved people and free people of color as their economic competitors). But the nexus is always there. Not for nothing was the Trump campaign slogan easily construed to mean “Make America White Again.” As Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman remark in their introduction to Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, the coerced…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…ners, Avakian wrote. He cited the United States Supreme Court in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, a 1995 case in which the court found that “modern public accommodations laws are well within the State’s usual power to enact when a legislature has reason to believe that a given group is a target of discrimination, and they do not, as a general matter, violate the First or Fourteenth Amendments.” Oregon’s own publi…

The High Church of Art

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nimagined forms–no reason to call it “secular.” His curatorial interest in promoting consciousness turned “in part on a suggestive paradox: How can modernist aesthetics be reconnected with a complex mystical tradition from which it has never been separated?” (italics mine). In other words, how may the modern museum escape the fiction of its own secularity and thereby rediscover its spiritual roots, its spiritual task? It is telling that Sweeney’s…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…ifferent language: what the Romantics called sublimity. Eighteenth century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke wrote that a “definition may be… exact, and yet go but a… little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.” Notice the gloss of the unavoidable sacred in the media coverage about the discovery: Korin writes of “an unknown realm that can only be imagined”; Lee Billings at Scientific American describes the object as an “almost…

10 Media Rules for Effective Theology

By Cynthia B. Astle

…is the “U2charist,” an order of worship developed around the music of the Irish rock band, U2, and its frontman-philanthropist, Bono. This contemporary Eucharist emphasizes compassion and includes an offering for ONE, the global campaign to end poverty. Gimmicky? Yes, although the gimmick was created by an Episcopal clergywoman in Maryland and not by the band. The point is that the form gets people’s attention, combining ancient Christian worship…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aditional values against the decadent heresies, notably liberal democracy, promoted by the United States and what they frequently call “Gayropa.” “The church has become an instrument of the Russian state. It is used to extend and legitimize the interests of the Kremlin,” said Sergei Chapnin, who is the former editor of the official journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, the seat of the Russian Orthodox Church and affiliated churches outside Russia. Q…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…iladelphia often struggled with religious diversity. In the 1830s and 40s, Irish Catholics poured into Philadelphia and other American cities. (Patricia Miller just wrote about the anti-Catholic backlash that occurred in Baltimore in the 1830s here on RD.) Prominent civic leaders were suspicious that these new immigrants gave their allegiance not to the president of the United States, but to the pontiff in Rome. They questioned whether or not Cath…

The Theodicy of George Carlin

By Kathryn Lofton

…As he testified frequently, he attended the sort of parochial school that promoted more Dewey dialogue than catechistic rehearsal, leaving in its wake a lot of cultural Catholics and few committed Sunday visitors. “They made questioners out of us,” he said, “which is maybe why so many of us lost the faith.” Despite the wicked, foundational reason imprinted by his Morningside Heights parish, Carlin relied upon easy Catholic insults his whole life….

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…eave it to you to sort it out on YouTube.” Inevitably, many will. Fighting Irishly When the auditorium emptied out, the overcast evening had turned into a rainy night, and the lobby stayed full for some time. Harris and Craig signed books. The film Waiting for “Superman” was playing in an adjacent auditorium, as part of a program on education policy—astonishingly, also the work of Malcolm Phelan. I imposed myself on groups of students discussing a…

SCOTUS’s Incoherent Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision

By Daniel Schultz

…ltural revanchist an excuse to deny services based on “sincerely held religious beliefs.” I look forward to America adopting the Northern Irish model of social cohesion. Talk about stupid….