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Hell in a Cell: ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Reflects the Growing Belief That Cocksure Men Will Save Us in the Battle of Good v. Evil

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…to introduce a match called “hell in a cell.” The message from this cross-promotion seems clear: exorcism isn’t a matter of prayer so much as it is a spectacle pitting man against demon. Ironically, however, Slate’s Molly Olmstead argues that this is why the real-life exorcists of the IAE did not like the film. “Many exorcists will try to present an exorcism not as a dramatic battle with the devil,” she writes, “but as a boring task—and a simple…

The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…“push Israel’s eastern border to its natural location on the banks of the Jordan River.” The occupying army cleared the way for civilian settlers who still use the mythic version of the 1967 events to claim an “inalienable right” to all that land. “Israel legitimately seized the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria in self-defense,” they argue, ignoring the historical evidence. “Israel’s moral claim to these territories, and the right of Isr…

The Unholy Battle Over the Ground Zero Cross

By Becky Garrison

…of a cross. This artifact was dubbed the ‘Ground Zero Cross’ by Fr. Brian Jordan, OFM, who celebrated mass at the foot of this cross during the recovery effort, later spearheading an effort to preserve it. David Silverman, President of American Atheists reflects on why they chose to resolve this issue using legal means. The cross was installed without regard to minority religious opinions. Our requests to include our own memorial, or to dedicat…

The Very Idea of “Gay Church”

By Mark D. Jordan

This October marks the fortieth anniversary of the first worship service for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches or MCC. The story of the service has been told often enough to count as mythic. It is a great story, especially when the denomination’s founder, Troy Perry, preaches it in the operatic style of his Pentecostal boyhood. He has also written it over the years, not least in his autobiography, The Lord is My Shepherd…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…we just bomb them every few years, and punish them for their desire to be free, we will have achieved a reasonable and acceptable status quo. But although I welcome the forwardness with which we are beginning to confront the ugly realities of ongoing occupation—as well as the racism and ethnocentrism that are necessarily enhanced in the course of such conflict—I don’t think we quite understand the desperate urgency of the situation. Israel’s elit…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…lsewhere. What makes that idea different in the The Aquarian Gospel is the free and almost casual borrowing from every religious tradition known to Levi Dowling, the frank sense that all religions aim at the same essential truths and that what the Veda said first, Jesus said conclusively. The inhabitants of the Age of Aquarius just so happen to be especially ready for the revelation. There is a surprising degree of self-congratulation and a brash…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…ner notes here on RD: No matter how dubious one might find those religious freedom claims—notably, claims for exemptions from serving same-sex marriage celebrations, and, in other contexts, covering reproductive health care in a company insurance plan—it’s a mistake to ignore how that conversation is driving the evangelical world. As I reported in Salon, right-leaning Catholic voters appear to be following the same path. While Catholics have long…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…to community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity, and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit. [emphasis in original] Dancing (dare I say flirting) along the bleeding edge of outrageousness, the 70 or…

Heteronormativity: A Discussion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t whipping boy” for a political left that is allergic to religion. As Mark Jordan puts it in the Introduction to his book, Blessing Same Sex Unions, “[t]he conviction is that there is a single thing, Christian Marriage, which is now being asked to accommodate this other single thing, Queer Relationship. Neither member of that duo is what it seems.” I was trying in my short piece to discern what the biblical texts say, why marriage is mentioned whe…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…d gender politics that we have failed to invoke Sojourner Truth or Barbara Jordan? Eleanor Roosevelt or Harvey Milk? Is it symptomatic of our parochialism that global figures such as Desmond Tutu (who, by the way, has called homophobia a new apartheid) remain unmentioned while Rick Warren has center stage? I am not alone in raising such questions. In responding to Obama’s candidacy, young Muslims expressed mixed emotions about Obama’s ways of mana…