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Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…hat both penances were accepted. Penance, an application released for the iPhone in early December, allows users to absolve one another’s sins. After passing the application’s obligatory security PIN system (conventional online security measures are the app’s primary faith-orientation), you come to an interface resembling a confessional booth. Through the left door you can “confess,” offering your sins to whoever is listening; behind the closed do…

Sarah Palin and the Politics of Victimization

By Randall Balmer

…m childhood and recitations of the author’s meteoric rise to national prominence. But it was not nearly as bad as I feared—kind of endearing, actually, like a cute little puppy tap-dancing frenetically on the kitchen floor, eager for attention. The puppy piddled in the corner more than once, taking cheap shots at political adversaries (including McCain campaign apparatchiks) and using the annoying, sophomoric reference to the Democratic Party as t…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…y be able to use the hotel service, which accounts for an expense locally one needs to know about before going. In Indonesia this would be cheap so not a big deal, but who knows in Makkah and Madinah; and what about cleaning my underwear? But some of these are made from such lovely cotton, the pre-wash would just be more work for me, and not at all necessary. Then I wondered what the heck I would do with all this white when I return. Only the pant…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…ce. In “Toward a New Definition of Obscenity,” Moody, who had by 1965 screened banned films in church and registered voters in the South, wrote that: For Christians the truly obscene ought not to be slick-paper nudity, nor the vulgarities of dirty old or young literati, nor even ‘weirdo’ films showing transvestite orgies or male genitalia. What is obscene is that material, whether sexual or not, that has as its basic motivation and purpose the deg…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…do you say to the claim of Limbaugh and others that they are just entertainers? Neiwert: Sure, if political propaganda can pass as entertainment, and it certainly has in the past, I’d go along with that. But they are political propagandists first and foremost. That they do it entertainingly just comes with the job, really. There’s nothing more ineffective than propagandists who bore people. Maybe that’s been the left’s problem. And being an enter…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…aning only “open borders” and demean the whole idea; others will see that amnesty respects law and procedure, that is is humane and that it is more practical than detention or deportation. When we sneer at amnesty or mischaracterize welcome, I believe that we have lost our way, both legally and morally. [Thanks to Grace Goodman for her assistance with this article.]…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ideology will remain strong, but its case will weaken. The practical component necessary for its wider acceptance may collapse. In the mid-1980s the fate of the Israel government (Labor or Likud) hung in the balance and would be decided by the Haredi parties. Rabbi Eliezer Shach, then the leading voice among Haredim in Israel, addressed the nation in an unprecedented speech. Rav Shach chose to support the Likud and not Labor because of his utter…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…in metaphorical terms: Randy’s heart attack was really a comment on his loneliness, a broken heart over his daughter’s estrangement, and the utter lack of any other community. Reviewers persisted in maintaining this dualism, that the double identities Randy and Cassidy both share ultimately want to get to some core non-physical identity, some materially transcendent spirit, some individuality that is more about the myth of modern individualism th…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…ouldn’t have any evidence; our judgment, insofar as it’s possible to have one, needs to rest entirely on the ex post facto arguments of Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius. The event, or nonevent, must be a mystery of faith. Which is where the title comes in. In his introduction to the play, Shanley describes the existential question that was the seed of the play: Have you ever held a position in an argument past the point of comfort? Have you ever d…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…ollars in relief aid. It’s OK to give corporations access to unlimited and cheap money from the Federal Reserve. But it’s not OK to give normal people an extra $600 a week, people who are at the same time being coaxed by billionaires into going back to work even at the risk of death. It goes almost without saying that there’s more than a little connection between conservative economic ideology and conservative racial ideology. Part of the performa…