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Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

After Kathryn Schulz’s eviscerating portrait of Thoreau in the New Yorker, the nineteenth-century nature boy has had no shortage of apologists. Jonathan Malesic salvages Thoreau’s political vision, defending his Puritanical sparseness when it came to clothing and furniture not as the quirks of a joyless curmudgeon, but as a means through which he might carve out more free time to think, to wrestle with the moral questions. Jedediah Purdy gives a…

Burying the Future: Youth Violence in Chicago

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…Walcott Avenue to be exact). It’s become a statistic to keep track of: the number of school-age children who are murdered, sometimes on school grounds, during a school year, which means the academic year is properly hyphenated. The punctuation gives bone to the unholy facts, but it also creates another set of suburban record-keeping to conjure with. In other words, it makes the reality more abstract, a bit easier to study as citizens. I teach in D…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…over Obama in the general election. Gail St. Pierre, the Flagler County Chair of Santorum’s campaign, told me she believed Obama is a Muslim and an “illegal alien.” Indeed, suspicion about Islam ran high here. State Senator Alan Hays received probably the most boisterous standing ovation of the day when he was introduced as the sponsor of a bill that would ban the use of “foreign” (i.e., sharia) law. Florida religious right leaders seem to see th…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…lucky, they’ll just come in after you’re done and slip and crack something open on the watery mess you’ve made. But in Muslim-majority countries (the above is from Ataturk International in Istanbul), special ablution facilities are the norm. But of course not everyone knows of them or, and this is more likely, why go all the way to the airport mosque when there’s a perfectly good sink to stick your foot in? ⬆ Inside a Dubai hotel room. This sp…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…educators—the Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada, the main seminary accrediting body, likes to see PhDs on the faculty roster. Most doctoral programs require critical thinking capabilities, and critical thinking frequently calls the foundations of faith into question. A vicious cycle whirls more violently than Charybdis here. Over there is the Scylla of unprofessionalism (professors without enough letters following…

Tariq Ramadan in Montreal: Defining Ethics in Terms of Religion

By Spencer Dew

…treaming of Islamic imperialism is under way.” More partisan outlets, like Canada’s National Post, do not hesitate to call Ramadan a covert extremist. Throughout much criticism of Ramadan there is the notion that he is pulling off some kind of elaborate charade, passing as “modern” and “Western” when he is really, essentially “Islamic,” a closet booster for theocracy, ready to applaud the imposition of Sharia on the citizenry of the world. Such th…

Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…. Afterwards, in 1947, he accepted an assignment from the United Church of Canada to go to India where he and his wife taught at Indore Christian College. On returning to New York in 1957 he completed a PhD in history at Columbia University. It remained his academic home for most of the rest of his rich career as a professor, dean, department chair, and member of the US diplomatic service in Delhi. Columbia had created a Western Civilization requi…

Republicans Face Showdown With Religious Right Over Dropped Abortion Bill

By Sarah Posner

…se floor.” David Christensen, the group’s Vice President for Government Affairs, added, “The anniversary of Roe v. Wade is not the time to get weak kneed and Members need to hear from you.” Mollie Hemingway’s excoriation of the Republican leadership at The Federalist this morning signals the reaction that is likely to roil the party in the months to come. This fissure will also trigger heightened discussion of abortion by 2016 GOP presidential hop…

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

…the archdiocese of Newark, NJ, agreed to supervise him and banned him from contact with children, but appointed him as chaplain of a hospital without informing the hospital of his history. Fugee continued to have contact with children, including traveling with them on retreats, until last year when a local newspaper brought his activities to light and a public outcry forced his ouster. The bishop who was supposed to supervise Fugee, John Myers, re…

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

By Kathryn Joyce

…is is an improper use of tax funding. Journalists might be less willing to contact victims’ groups, in case some flippant comment is later taken out of context. Two, people who report known or suspected crimes, not just child sex, not just by clergy but crimes period, will be much more reluctant to do so, in case they end up deposed in some lawsuit they can’t even foresee. And three, people who have been deeply hurt and many who are still hurting…