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‘Miracles’ Rejects Disenchantment, Not Science

By Joseph Laycock

…d scientists, but of phenomena that confirm the reality of the sacred—what Mircea Eliade called hierophanies. At the heart of “Miracles” is not a fundamentalist rejection of science but a rejection of disenchantment—of a societal pressure to accept a rational-scientific worldview even when it fills our world with less meaning instead of more. It is ultimately not surprising that horrorcore shock artists, who have apparently rejected every other so…

Bishops Elect Moderate to Lead Pro-Life Committee

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…cently speculated that O’Malley’s leadership of the Pro-Life Activities Committee would likely be characterized by a “less partisan approach.” Assuming this will be the approach O’Malley takes, though, how will it track with the USCCB’s more partisan elements? Will his conciliatory demeanor run him afoul of the more zealously partisan? Or could it be, rather, that this was the very reason for his election? Michael Sean Winters’ observations of the…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…s Lindsay hurdles toward her senior year—and a summer consumed by an “academic summit” at the University of Michigan—her teacher does just that. In truth, Jeff Rosso, her guidance counselor, had been there all along, paying attention and flashing the peace sign with his long, aging hippie hair and Hush Puppies. It just took the right words at the right time for Lindsay to notice. “Maybe you’re tired and broken?” Rosso asks Lindsay as she slouches…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…is deeply rooted in American history. Referencing sociologists Christian Smith and Michael Emerson’s 2000 book Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Harper described a white evangelical church that is structured in such a way as to keep others out. It creates an alternative life for its congregants, one based on church growth models that create “huge churches full of nothing but white people, an enclavish cult…

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

…ious freedom” agenda? A priest blogging under the name of Father Z has a similar theory and he’s literally seeing red. You can practically feel the spittle flying off the page in his jeremiad against NCAN, Haffner and yours truly, whom he seems to think is a nun, which is very, very funny. He calls NCAN a “tiny, liberal loon crank group” and says they’re a front for some unnamed larger lefty group and also unnamed “dangerous initiatives.” The idea…

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…wed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.” When he learned King would be making an appearance, Nickelberry hurried to union hall, but he didn’t get there in time. The next night, King was killed from the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. Two weeks later, the city agreed to recognize the union and…

Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…k Jarretta Hamilton, a fourth grade teacher at Florida Christian School, who was fired after she got pregnant nearly a month before marrying her fiancé. Or, ask Bruce K. Waltke, an Old Testament professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, based in Jackson, Mississippi, who was fired after saying Christians can believe in evolution. The religious right can’t have it both ways—expelling and firing people they disagree with while suing other schools…

Week in Religion: More Praying in Texas, First Hindu Chaplain, Modest Muslim Weightlifter

By Michael J. Altman

…U.S. military. An Oregon faith-healing couple were convicted of felony criminal mistreatment when they chose to seek ritual faith healing for a growth over their daughter’s eye instead of medical care. The rector of a Muslim University in Russia was gunned down. Maksud I. Sadikov sought to revive local Sufi traditions of Islam as a counter to violence in the area. The Crystal Cathedral is still in trouble. Will Rick Santorum take a share of the c…

Dear President Bush

By Jimmy McCarty

…d a free-market as possible and have watched as our nation falls into economic collapse. You encouraged excessive greed and now millions are paying the price when it proved unsustainable. Millionaires and billionaires padded their pockets with money they had no use for while literally millions are on the brink of homelessness or are already homeless. You helped build America’s house on the sand and now that the storm has come it may not stand. One…

Patron Saint of AIDS/HIV To Be Canonized

By Susan Henking

…address AIDS/HIV that are named after the Belgian missionary, including Damien Ministries. Indeed, Damien Ministries is celebrating its 20th year of caring for persons with AIDS/HIV. And, what some claim to be the world’s only Roman Catholic chapel memorializing persons who have died from HIV/AIDS, at Montreal’s Eglise Saint-Pierre-Apotre, is consecrated to this same soon-to-be saint. (An Episcopal memorial chapel is also named for him.) Father D…