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Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…not. The interventions we are witnessing have fundamentally changed “the coordinates of the situation.” In other words, the past is not a guide to the future and we cannot call on it to define this particular revolution. 3. We cannot know what new Islamic energies will be unleashed. Until now, Islamic political philosophy has failed to answer the question of why Western-style democracies are more effective than rival political systems. It is e…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ed by oppression, exploitation, illness, or other circumstances that leave ordinary people in the dust is a basic faith practice. We are meant, in the words of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, “to make no peace with oppression,” to “reverently use our freedom” in the service of justice. “Justice for all,” as another line from the tattered American Dream goes. That’s what makes the “city on the hill” shine. That’s what, at the end of the day, o…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…y 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 egregiousness or another to her husband, and asked him why he thought people had to be this way. “There are two kinds of people in the world,” he replied. “Those who don’t see an order to the universe, and those…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…home: “Our apologies, Our apologies, good friends for the fracture of good order, for the burning of paper instead of children, for the angering of the orderlies in the rose garden of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise, for we are sick at heart and cannot rest for thinking of the Land of the Burning Children and for thinking of that other Child of whom the poet, Luke, speaks. Our Consciences are in His keeping and in no…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…rsalistic spiritualized family—albeit one with a healthy profit margin. Accordingly, it’s not cheap. A package of 50 classes in the Hamptons (which includes early class signups) runs for $4,000. New York magazine interviewed one New York City rider who, by the magazine’s estimate, was spending more than $21,000 on SoulCycle each year. A single class, sans early sign-up perks, costs nearly as much as a month-long membership at my local YMCA. Meanwh…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ecifically target people who are suffering from mental illness or grief in order to recruit them into the churches, and then to weaponize them for the politics of the far Right. CS: So tell me more about how you came to produce this specific film with this specific focus. KGV: Well, so, Charles and I are quite recent partners, but we’ve known each other about ten years. And I knew that Charles had done work for civil society and as a journalist in…

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

By Michelle Goldberg

…Party than leftists ever did with the Democrats. Nixon hung the social disorder of the late 1960s and 1970s around the necks of his political opponents, but the forces of anarchy and rebellion never had a real foothold in their party. (The notorious violence outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago was evidence of how great the divide between the party and the counterculture really was). The same is not true for the forces of social reac…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…the reductive “purity” rhetoric with something reductive of my own, like a cheap criticism that Christianity is anti-sex and anti-body. Which brings me to Augustine’s Confessions, and specifically, reading Augustine’s Confessions with my Intro Theology class this week. Internet, I love Augustine Confessions. I love, love, love, love Augustine’s Confessions. I love it even when I want to throw it across the room and curse. It’s a complicated love,…

Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority

By Anthony B. Pinn

…tion, and a tool for making meaning that speaks beyond the limitations of words. The body, his body on stage, called attention to our bodies—their limitations, their capabilities… their look. As no one failed to notice, the growth of Michael Jackson as an entertainer, as a prime depiction of US cultural expression, was shadowed by radical changes to his appearance. There is so much meaning and importance in the observation made by scholars who arg…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…oing work women have always done. Women and men can now both have equally “cheap sex” thanks to the Pill, but Regnerus concludes that this has come back to bite the very women who thought they were liberated by creating an equality-induced “power imbalance” in the marriage market: there is a surplus of women who want to marry, creating a buyer’s market for men. Pathetic, lonely women like “Nina” are now left out in the cold where they can expect “…