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Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering

By Laura R. Olson

…great deal of attention over the past three decades for its rise to prominence and its electoral significance. In contrast, the religious left lacks national coordination, hindering its ability to articulate any sort of unified vision of how religion and politics might connect through a range of issues that lie outside of the religious right’s standard abortion/homosexuality/family rubric. Running a successful campaign for office depends on being…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…shorts. The point of the dress-up act was to show the absurdity of the French burqa ban. I love the idea because it raises so many questions. Women who are supposedly being objectified by the men in their lives are told they will be “liberated” by going uncovered. But what about women who are objectified and feel they need to act as sexual objects by the men in their lives? Do they not deserve the protection of the state? Or is objectification ac…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…and former Clinton chief of staff) John Podesta. Is it any wonder that disenchanted voters mutter, “They’re all alike”? It’s Independence Day. Let us soberly consider the state of our democracy to observe that what remains is but a hollow shell. We retain the marble façade of formal democracy, but these well-fed people in no way represent us. They represent the fixers and the string pullers. The ancient Hebrew prophets would have something to day…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…stew of interactive entertainment Benedict has worked to figure out, with increasing urgency and frustration, just what the Church’s role ought to be. In his 2011 World Communications Day speech Benedict noted that recent “radical changes” in technology “are not only changing the way we communicate, but communication itself, so much so that it could be said that we are living through a period of vast cultural transformation.” The interactive natur…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ly 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door. I chatted with an AP reporter and he said AP had been trying for weeks to gain media access—but that he was there to see if he cou…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…d folk will be able to say. But as Bill Graham tells it, “you can use sentences and sentences,” so we might as well try. I nominate the Grateful Dead as a singular-categorical phenomenon, and I further declare that the singular category adhering to this phenomenon is replete-ness. We begin with the Grateful Dead, as Bill Graham affirmed, as an environment, and an environment replenishes the curious and courageous mind with meaning, being replete a…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…ver the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with religion. “The larger question is should the state be promoting a religious enterprise like this—especially one that only serves to dumb down science education in the state. It’s a sad comment on our times that states are so desperate for jobs that they will align with an enterprise lik…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…ls a foundation of American History of philosophical and theological substance. This series extends through 1865, the year that marked the beginning of the secular attempts to rewrite history. There can be no understanding of American History without an understanding of the ideas which undergirded its founding and growth. In “Why History Matters,” for example, Barton says, “if you do not see the divine hand working behind the scenes with what’s go…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…he Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically correct a story as you’ll find: a black young man bordering on delinquency is hired by a tetraplegic wealthy man to be his assistant-nurse-chauffeur. They have a ball together doing crazy—and sometimes nasty—things, and save each other from an apparently inexorable f…

Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground

By E. David Morgen

…with social bonding. Bonnaroo aspires to play, but deep play. But what chance is there for deep experience at an event that counts Microsoft, Nokia, and Gillette among its sponsors? Does the camp meeting tradition of awakenings—great or otherwise—stand a chance in the twenty-first century culture of corporate planning? The best place to start answering those questions may not be in the “entertainment village” where the performances transpire amid…