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A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…der dresses and ridiculously high-heeled shoes. They sipped from splits of cheap sparkling wine while their tuxedoed companions swilled the local brew, Budweiser—that, too, a faded American icon, sold off in 2008 to the Belgium-based multinational, InBev. No, of course, these were not the protesters who have begun to appear in more and more American cities, but keepers of the once-stable base of a certain version of the fabled American Dream: wedd…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…oser to the truth to say he could never allow the kind of intellectual openness found routinely in parochial schools around the world. Imagine it! Who are you? Do you disbelieve in God? Why? Do you disbelieve in God because your mother disbelieves in God? Do you believe there’s no God because smart people told you so? Precisely what God do you not believe in? Might there be another you could believe in?, etc. What many Catholics know, and what Ri…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…hey can and can not solve, the gods the make and then—love them, fear them, hate them—live with. The car represents in mythic terms the deeply protestant American urge to be free of confinements, and to establish oneself anew in fulfillment of divine mandate. Bachmann wasn’t promising a financial result (even she can’t really have believed it), but instead was tapping into the deep registers of an American myth….

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tholic institutions themselves to sort out. Catholic hospitals may have to negotiate a new compromise between integration into a wider system where it’s possible to do a lot of good; and sincere fidelity to a healthcare practice that very few of their constituents believe, adhere to, or think is good for them. Indeed, such negotiations have already been taking place locally, when hospital mergers press the issue. With the Affordable Care Act man…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…jowa kalbak yetbak, “if your dog is hungry, he will follow you.” He explained that Southern Sudanese laborers in the North were given just enough food to keep them working. The government even taxed the donkeys that transported their water. When I met William, he was serving gelato and drinks for the Royal Beach Hotel in Eilat, commuting to work from Kibbutz Eilot, which houses over a hundred Sudanese refugees in block units. On one wall is a mur…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…hese are big words — hope, forgiveness and peace. They rarely have the megaphone that the party of “nope” enjoys. Nevertheless, they are words that religious people need to protect with all our hearts and souls. We too need a department of homeland security and its job is to protect our words. Let’s start with hope. When a tragedy happens, it often steals our hope. The 9-11 bombing is a terrible tragedy. It is a tragedy with causes in a larger hum…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…iage equality crowd remain up in the air. The first case Boehner wants his new attorney to tackle is Windsor v. United States which involves a lesbian couple who had been together 44 years before Thea Spyer died. Edie Windsor complained that DOMA makes her a second class citizen and criticized Boehner for seeking to keep her one: “I am very disappointed that the House of Representatives has decided to intervene in my case in order to try to preven…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…distinct as a species. He wants us to see reason as a weaker faculty that nests in, nestles into, and suckles on the unconscious work of our emotions. The non-rational unconscious, he says, is “the soul of the species,” or our “soulscape.” It is “a place where spiritual states arise and dance from soul to soul.” In the place where our brains produce emotional reactions, Brooks charges, there might be what he calls a “divine creativity” where “lov…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…lty long before the investigation was over. Many of them said he was a “Chinese plant” in India and a “Chinese agent” because he is the only Tibetan reincarnation to be recognized by both the China and the Dalai Lama, and he speaks Chinese, and he has a huge following amongst the Han Chinese diaspora. Journalists or stenographers? For Tibetans in India, this incident reveals the dilemma faced by Tibetans, subjects without citizenship, and it also…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…call on it to define this particular revolution. 3. We cannot know what new Islamic energies will be unleashed. Until now, Islamic political philosophy has failed to answer the question of why Western-style democracies are more effective than rival political systems. It is entirely feasible that the current waves of change, triggered by Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and elsewhere, could unleash new waves of Islamic political thought. We cou…