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Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

…on having existing skills and relationships to meet needs identified in a plan or in real time. The problem is not that Lakewood Church kept its doors closed until Tuesday, but rather that the church may not have imagined itself as a leader in times of humanitarian crisis. Or, if it had prepared for leadership, it did not share those plans in a timely manner. When life gets hard, people often turn to religion and spirituality. To not have a call-t…

Covering Religion in The New Year: The Atheist Bus And More

By Diane Winston

…tionships? How to find these stories? I’d look for chinks in religious, philanthropic and communal groups: new ways of looking at longstanding problems, young leaders offering alternative visions, and philanthropists supporting new models. These stories need to be teased out online or pursued on the ground—venues far from the politicos, pundits and PACs that have dominated the discourse for far too long. And this is just a start; there’s much more…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…nd slavery; the emergence of vast networks of media, mediation, and surveillance; money, money, money; and the slow but incessant corruption of the water, woods, and very air we breathe—to name only a few examples—betray the ideal of choice for all involved, both then and now. So, yes, I may be put off by the stubborn optimism of Taylor, but I get downright pissed when I encounter what can only be called a blissed-out reading of Taylor by someone…

The Feds: Gamblers And Addicts

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…his proposal, well meaning as it is, is as little thought-through as most plaNeither the emotions created by scandal or by crisis are good for democratic deliberation; we have had ample evidence of this frightening truth as we have watched alleged economic experts perform so blithely and reactively to one crisis after another, communicating little confidence that they know what they are doing or understand where this new tidal wave of cash will ac…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…iocesan bishop in the United States, and every bishop in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom and South Africa has received the offer of a download. Each member of the Council of Cardinals, its secretary, and Pope Francis has received a copy, along with the original Italian-languages essays. If the hierarchy will consider what history really says, perhaps they will think about whether they need to restore the tradition of women as d…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…ominantly Catholic European nations—most notably in Hungary, but also in Poland, Austria, France, and Italy (and in former Soviet Eastern Orthodox nations to the east)—is a response to many of the same dynamics that produced monarchism and fascism in the 19th and 20th centuries: most succinctly, an alliance of clerical, rural, military, aristocratic, and ethnic elements challenging urban, cosmopolitan, educated, secular, and bourgeois “elites.” Ul…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…t fall outside the federal levee system. The seventh largest delta on the planet, these wetlands contain 37 percent of the marshland in the United States and the largest commercial fishery in the lower 48 states—to say nothing of the largest offshore oil production of any state. These wetlands are also the most endangered in the country, accounting for 90 percent of all coastal wetland loss in the lower 48 states. From 2004 to 2008 (the years that…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y seems to be to get their people in here, as they have been previously. Poland: First Openly Gay Mayor Elected Vanessa Gera reports for Associated Press that Robert Biedron had already made history by becoming the first openly gay parliamentarian in 2011. On Monday, he was elected mayor of Slupsk, a city in northern Poland. Writes Gera, “The 38-year-old’s political successes are a marker of how quickly this deeply conservative and Catholic countr…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…r. Meanwhile Black parents will talk to their children in hushed tones, Philando and Alton’s relatives will cry bitter tears (and be approached by predatory lawyers hoping to catch a civil case) and children will have nightmares and call out for their fathers. Preachers will ignore, or call on people to pray, but not to act. The rest of us will drink, fornicate and forget. I’m done saving you, good white folks. You want Black people like me, who l…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…mons followed the church leaders as they hopped about the Midwest, finally landing in what would later be called Utah, where they established a permanent home. It was Zion, they said. Today, the LDS church is so large that no state could contain it. Mormons, in a blessed union of tradition and technology, began to gather virtually, through blogging. “Almost like the relief societies or the priesthood in the church, this is a way of connecting,” Sh…