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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ome commentators have alleged that the 33-27 vote in the Senate was less a sign of major cultural change than a way for the president’s husband, Nestor Kirchner (former president of Argentina hankering to run again), to look liberal enough to be reelected in 2011. That may well be, but it misses an important religious angle; namely, that the Roman Catholic Church was defeated as soundly as the political opposition on this one. Maybe it is a sign o…

Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity

By Diane Winston

See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Diane Winston_____________ Watching this week with my mother and daughter (“Why is she shooting at that man? Which reality is this? So are we the bad guys?”), I didn’t need much convincing to see the episode in terms of familial relations: mixed, missed, and mordant. That many of the relationships played out between the poles of opposition and differentiation ma…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…ndependent and organized to hold him to anything. Do you think there was a sign of hope for grassroots organizing in the U.S. during the occupation of the Madison capitol building? I definitely took the events in Madison as a hopeful sign. One could see a lot of Thoreau’s sleepers waking up and beginning the process of getting their act together. But the real question is whether the organizational work that comes out of that event takes full advan…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…money to build the center, it was the vision of a 900-foot-tall Jesus as a sign to Roberts that would place media scrutiny on his ministry in an uncomfortable way. Ridiculed for reciting the vision in a letter to supporters, the 900-foot-tall Jesus vision would eventually inspire Mark Griffin of Dallas to become a self-styled rapper with the handle of MC 900 Ft. Jesus, who had a string of hits. Roberts was not without his share of controversy over…

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…rtsmouth, New Hampshire, showed up with a pistol strapped to his leg and a sign calling for the refreshment of the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. That was a patriotic sentiment in revolutionary times. Now it’s just a vile form of sour grapes. That an election went against the conservative movement does not mean that it was unfair, or undemocratic, or oppressive. In this nation, we stick together—win or lose. But that, I think, leads us…

Muslims Are Not the Only Group Endangered By Hate

By Shabana Mir

…hers, there’s not enough left for them. So one group may think it’s a good sign for their survival when another group gets branded. But the targeting of one group is merely a sign that the disease is spreading across the bodypolitic. It’s a matter of time before it reaches you. The European right-wing trend of hatred, rejection, and xenophobia threatens to sweep entire societies into its dark embrace. Non-Whites, non-Christians, and non-nationals…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…within the Religion-Industrial Complex (see below), there is absolutely no sign that white evangelicals are ready to switch their allegiance in any significant way to Democratic principles or to Democratic candidates. Unless, of course, Democrats are willing to pander in classic Republican fashion to the particular prejudices of these religious voters. It is particularly dismaying to have to note that white evangelicals these days don’t even seem…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…“to secure the 41 votes necessary to sustain a filibuster against measures promoting federal taxpayer funding of abortion.” The Susan B. Anthony List, “a nationwide network” of over 150,000 Americans “dedicated to mobilizing, advancing, and representing pro-life women in politics,” played a prominent role opposing Barack Obama’s election. ++++++++++ Obama Should “Bring America Together” by Appointing Bush-Nominated Judges, says the Family Research…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…in the college handbook. Does Crook see a connection between the worldview promoted at Central Baptist and the violence and rejection LGBT people often face? “There’s a lot of talk about religious bigotry,” he says. “About Christians hating other people for the way they act. I don’t think that’s true. We don’t hate them—we love them like we love anybody else. We just happen to disagree with them. That gets turned around into they hate us, and it m…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…n’t earn it, you can’t deserve it. You make the point of not making people sign up, or sign in, the way we do if we need government aid. Right. You don’t have to prove anything. The imitation of God’s gesture in feeding us all is frightening, and difficult, and exhilarating. It’s an amazing experience to do that—it changes you. Interesting, too, that the pantry is not run by volunteers from the church, as I had imagined. It’s also true that becaus…