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Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…, and meet new people.” Kruger says it was “blind faith” that got him on a plane to Kathmandu less than 24 hours after one of the other guys suggested he should make the trip. “My faith drives me to love everyone,” Kruger said, “and to show that love through my actions, with the understanding that I am no better for my faith or experience/knowledge. That is the ideal, not always easily practiced.” Love, Forgiveness, and Compassion Children at Chha…

‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy

By Sara Williams

…tortured shots of him wistfully looking out a car window or sleeping on a plane after a strenuous day of soul searching. Harris leans on a variety of experts throughout the film to help him understand where he’d gone so wrong, and how he needs to be enlightened. Yet the diversity of world class scholars such as Jessica Johnson and Julie Ingersoll, and public figures like Nadia Bolz-Weber, who offer thoughtful and researched critiques of evangelic…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…barely begun when the World Trade Center collapsed, the Pentagon burned, a plane evaporated into the hills not too far from where we lived. A strangely quiet day grew quieter. One of my parishioners broke a lunch date, explaining that her bank’s financial data was routed through the Trade Center. “The printers are spitting out page after page of garbage,” she said before she rushed back to the office. I met a young Marine in the back of the coffee…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…s impact on the environment, Eaton argues, it would also be better for the planet. This is Paleo eschatology, essentially—a vision of the world’s final destination, rendered in the language of an idyllic past. Eaton’s vision did not go over especially well with the other participants in the nutrition conference, most of whom were advocates of vegetarian diets, and most of whom seemed hesitant to suggest reducing the world population by a few billi…

Noise in the Hood: Raising the Volume and Losing Our Bodies

By Peter Laarman

…human being can and should occupy in his or her society and on his or her planet.” Elsewhere he notes that we can only treat noise issues as “precious” in the pejorative sense if we are also willing to sacrifice many things we can and should hold precious in the positive sense: “fragile ecosystems, manual skills, local cultures, neighborhoods, children.” In fact, the animating premise of the book is the way in which noise as a relatively “weak” i…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…elections. Button found inspiration and challenge when she stepped off the plane in Kenya, and she came back to create a series on her experience there. JS: How did your faith or the faith of other people play a role in this series? MB: During The Peace Summit, interfaith dialog was a real priority and so the youth participants were not only from a number of different countries—Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya—…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…was just one line in it—just a horrific post, I actually sat there on the plane and I thought to myself, that guy cannot be a fan of mine. That guy has to be a poser. He has to be trying to discredit me. I don’t know. And that was the point. I don’t know. It’s getting hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys sometimes. Time will tell if Beck’s renunciation of violence and bigotry is true or if he’ll soon be back to his old tricks, because whi…

Truth or Dare?

By Amina Wadud

…e technical stumbling block that keeps me from jumping headlong out of the plane of expectation and adventure. I haven’t felt this much impatience and uncertainty since the last few days before delivery of my children. I never wanted to know the sex beforehand, and for the most part managed to avoid ultrasounds even for medical reasons until the fifth child at the ripe old age of 37. Having miscarried a child just before that pregnancy and being t…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…o one can keep away. And my Zappos shoes person recounted almost missing a plane, landing without her bags, but how she and her husband still managed to get there, because “once Allah invites you, then no one and nothing will keep you away.” So I tried to be optimistic. It didn’t help that my daughter accused me of the contrary. Or rather, she asked: aren’t you ever optimistic? I told her about waiting for the visa and how NOT being optimistic was…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…y plane there is a transcendent realm, where being is eternal. But the two planes of existence are always interconnected, so the religious person assumes that it’s possible to travel between them. If we understand your work correctly, the contact between those planes comes at a sacred center, which also links our sense of earthly order with some symbolic experience of chaos. Yes, archaic religious people did not fear chaos, because their sacred sy…