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

By Donna Schaper

…nd the right formula for welcoming the workers it needs and keeping excess numbers out. That formula needs to be developed so that the great gifts of globalization can be welcomed, culturally and economically, and borders can also be safeguarded. People of faith ought to be able to take the sneer out of our voice and understand that immigrants bring both gifts and problems; not neither, but both. Fully closed borders and fully open borders seem to…

Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…sive? Now, first of all, I don’t know which 7-11 the cardinal frequents, but other than condoms they don’t sell birth control (although a “six-pack and emergency contraception special” might cut down on a lot of unplanned pregnancies). Secondly, the Catholic bishops collapse all types of contraception into two “easily” available forms: birth control pills and condoms. Some oral contraceptives are available in generic forms and cost as little as $…

Religion Profs Critique PBS’ God Documentary, Call it Simplistic

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…e sixteenth century to the Ground Zero Mosque into a six-hour lecture without taking some shortcuts. Furthermore, documentary makers (much more than academics) understand that they must keep their stories simple and that their narratives must focus on a few key points. A documentary is successful when a viewer can turn off his/her television at the end of a show and summarize two or three main arguments. A documentary is not and is not supposed to…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…e Halos for granting penances. One of each is “gifted… every Sabbath day” but for zealots and louts more credits can be purchased for 17¢ apiece. As with fancy chemical aids for our Facebook farms, this money goes straight to the developers. The users deal instead in an economy of social prestige. With each accepted penance, Saints climb in office from Bishop, to Archbishop, to Cardinal, and finally to Holy Father/Mother of the Church, the cost of…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…herhood lacks a Khomeini-like figure does not actually tell us anything about the nature of this particular revolution. Less than a month ago the myth of Arab Authoritarianism was intact. For decades, scholars pondered the so called “puzzle” of “Arab exceptionalism” while scratching their heads as to why the authoritarian states in the Arab world have not embraced liberal democracy. That debate is now coming to an end. In its place, new questi…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…itions would go on to inspire figures in both the French and American revolutions—was not modest about its aims. Rousseau promised to do nothing less than shape the very destiny and life journey of his human reader. “To live is the trade I will teach him,” Rousseau baldly proclaimed. “On leaving my hands,” he continued, “he will be a man; and all that a man ought to be.” For centuries, Émile has been counted among the greatest tomes of the humanis…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…eling large stacks of cash at the rich. It doesn’t take much to work that out. But where does the instinct for class warfare come from? I think Stoehr is right to frame his argument in religious terms: heavenly import, sacrilege, faith and ideology, which is faith’s steely cousin. A number of years ago, I was chatting with the theologian Walter Brueggemann’s then-wife Mary on a Sunday morning. She told me she’d been bemoaning some bit of racial eg…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…e in their staple foods.” This attitude isn’t too far from the kind of decluttering ethic that Marie Kondo would recognize. To explain why he cut cooking from his life, Rhinehart told The Atlantic, “I would rather enjoy things because I want to, not because I have to.” And he reports seeing the most interest from young, educated males who are “busy or passionate about something.” Cooking is labor, he argues, and wasted time. If it doesn’t give you…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…grinning, grimacing, laughing skeletons in a strained embrace, circling about, and about, and about in a frenzied and eternal dance. Before summer’s end it would subside. Frau Troffea, who as the first patient was what epidemiologists call an “index case,” would be ultimately sent by her horrified husband to a shrine dedicated to St. Vitus, the patron saint of dancers. Similar ecclesiastical solutions ultimately soothed the souls (and soles) of re…

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

…lican base—cultural conservatives, and rural and small-town voters—throughout the campaign… But my examination of the exit poll results and county-by-county election returns has led me to conclude tentatively that going upscale is the right move.” The future, he argued, lies with educated and millennial-generation voters, and capturing their votes “means downplaying the cultural issues that were an important reason for Republican victories from 19…