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Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…l parliaments. Brazil’s new evangelicals have also begun to cooperate with American counterparts. In a recent article at Public Eye, I described how Jay Sekulow’s American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) met with Brazilian politicians, with the aid of Feliciano’s PSC, seeking support for the cause of a Christian pastor convicted of apostasy in Iran. The efficiency of Brazil’s evangelical political network so impressed the U.S. conservative group…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…ek Lin’s The Tao of Happiness, well, it gives damn good advice. If you can manage to follow that advice—as I do—you will become a sage (and if you are already a sage, hi!, shoot me an e-mail). Lin, again, wisely: The journey may seem challenging at first, but Tao cultivators see it as a dynamic process, so they respond to it with their own dynamism. They enjoy the process, like the man swimming with the currents and having the time of his life. To…

Watching the Trump Admin’s Coronavirus Response is Like Watching a Bumbling Cult

By Daniel Schultz

…rump has latched onto the daily count of coronavirus cases, citing the low number of confirmed cases as evidence of his ability to manage the crisis. The president is a profoundly ignorant man incapable of understanding that quarantining an entire cruise ship might have dire consequences. He is incapable, really, of understanding much of anything about the true nature of the situation, and he has bent the entire reins of government to the task of…

Why I’m Not Watching the State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…n. 2), and in the religious experts who are condemned (Deut. 18:9-11), who manage the religious system. There may be other examples, but this is a fair sample. Notice the representatives of technique include both religious and secular political experts who believe that the data on hand will provide sufficient knowledge and power, when rightly read, to handle the future. My comments in regard to hope and technique are not so much about knowledge as…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…should have been writing last week’s Preachers’ Daughters recap. I didn’t manage to write it, and anyway it seemed too soon. But here, listen to me, starting what’s meant to be a lighthearted episode recap with a reflection on tragedy! Sorry. The thing is, I just can’t bring the snark this week, because I’ve spent the week thinking different versions of, “My God, the things we do to one other.” This week’s episode of Preachers’ Daughters featur…

The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…, to hesitate considerably at the notion that we know enough about them to manage them,” Beisner wrote in his 1997 book on evangelicals and environmentalism (published by the Acton Institute, a free-market think tank). Beisner was one of the earliest opponents to EPA limits on carbon emissions. In June 2012, Beisner penned a letter to the EPA opposing the agency’s classification of carbon dioxide as a harmful pollutant as well as opposing any limi…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…nal evangelical churches or disaffiliate from religion altogether. Half of American Presbyterians are age 59 or over; half of atheists and agnostics are under 34. Douthat’s argument takes seriously the fact that religion is a social phenomenon, a way that humans negotiate public life and manage the “effervescence” of collective experience. He writes that church groups are better for dating than Tinder and that “Thriving congregations have spillove…

Hope Once Again In Wisconsin

By Daniel Schultz

…ve-aways to well-heeled interests being technical adjustments necessary to manage a desperate fiscal situation. To my mind, this fresh sense of possibility and the new participation of average citizens in determining their own future offers a tantalizing glimpse of the work of the God of Exodus. Creation, nothing. The Lord—the wily desert trickster—can and does upset political apple carts by calling people to the sort of hope outlined above. I hav…

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

…s. Clubs that often used to be owned and run by the mob, i.e., the kind of management that knows how to manage things with the cops. When I was young and looked really good in 501s I would spend more late Saturday/early Sunday hours than I care to remember dancing my butt off in rooms where the drinks might be watered but where the music was always hot and no one gave a damn. The Eagle in Exile, across from the old library in DC. The Clubhouse up…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…things that it’s very hard for some people to understand; but indeed, they manage to both be true at the very same time. Thing one: I love my oldest son, and his younger brother, so much that of course I’d take any bullet, any day, to save them. I would certainly never wish that they hadn’t been born. Thing two: The circumstances of my older son’s birth were so incredibly hard that if someone told me I had to go back in time and do it over again……