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West Virginia Mayor Enlists Churches To Pray Away Drugs and Crime

By Sarah Posner

…he other citizens giving accolades to this mayor for his plea. Consider joining us in prayer for this brave leader, and how to answer this call for your city.” I can’t help but think that supporters of these efforts are emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway this spring, in which the Court upheld sectarian prayer before town meetings, finding it did not violate the Establishment Clause. The Court leaned heavily on…

Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer

By Katherine Kelaidis

…s clerics who are leading the anti-vaxx movement in the Orthodox World. In Greece, where the official Church has been vocal in calling the faithful to be vaccinated, the influential Bishop Seraphim of Kythira has been a vocal proponent of the conspiracy theory that “vaccines are a product of abortions.” In Djokovic’s native Serbia a similar situation exists. The former Serbian Patriarch, Irinej, died in November of 2020, before a vaccine was avail…

Gingrich on Obama’s “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial Behavior” and “American Exceptionalism”

By Sarah Posner

…o. America, he suggested, is no more unique or exceptional than Britain or Greece or any other country. On Friday, Gingrich took that ball and ran with it into God territory. His thesis on American exceptionalism is by now familiar to anyone watching how the self-anointed constitutional purists of the tea parties are finding common ground with proponents of America as a “Christian nation.” The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights have a divine…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…local cuisines and food cultures of all of their homelands—whether Persia, Greece, Morocco, Poland, or India—and adapted them all quite adequately to function within the framework of kashrut. One wonders whether Pollan et al think the eco-culinary wisdom of these “traditional” cuisines is diminished when done within the parameters of kashrut? When Eco-Kosher Pigs Fly: Omnivory as a Universal Ideal One of the reasons we needed to contrive or redisc…

Buddha-Mind, American Style

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n in 1896. This was the year of the first modern Olympics, held in Athens, Greece; he has lived to see them held in Beijing, China. Mr. Breuning was also born the same year that the US Supreme Court (in Plessy v. Ferguson) established the principle that “separate but equal” facilities were compatible with our Constitutional commitments, thereby legitimating racial segregation in this country for more than fifty years; he has lived to see the elect…

Will Istanbul Ever Be a Part of the European Union?

By Haroon Moghul

…int that’s more relevant: there are more people in Istanbul than in all of Greece. Let’s say Turkish membership talks go forward, and enough Europeans are convinced Turkey won’t dilute whatever it is they want Europe to be. By the time Europe gets over its economic crisis and Turkey clears its hurdles, this country may well be more populous than Germany, making it the largest in the EU. Would Europe be okay with that? The Turks I’ve talked to so…

Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mous second-century Roman traveler who wrote a long book entitled Guide to Greece (or better, A Greek Walkabout—it is still considered by many to be “the bible” of Greek archaeology), one thing seems clear: that the Greeks celebrated their Olympic contests in large part because of their danger. We moderns have become far more conflicted about the matter. Pausanias relates the story of two boxers, Creugas and Damoxenos, who were competitors for the…

Were Angels Just Lucid Dreams?

By Richard Schiffman

…new directions in life, both for the individual and the tribe. In ancient Greece, sick people journeyed to temples dedicated to Aesculapius, the God of medicine, to engage in incubation, a ritual designed to produce lucid dreams, which they hoped would provide healing or the answer to a troubling question. This ancient practice of incubation was the topic of a recent study conducted by Dr. Deirdre Barrett at Harvard Medical School in which the pa…

Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion

By Nick Street

…ection of religion and media in Western history. Theatrical productions in Greece began as reenactments of the Dionysian story arc, tracing the god’s life, death and rebirth through a dramatic narrative that always included some sort of initiatory trauma. For the human beings in Battlestar Galactica, this initiation comes in the form of a nuclear holocaust visited on them by a race of machines that has evolved both to resemble and to despise their…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…lem, and Cyprus, and from traditional Orthodox countries, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Albania, Poland, and the Czech Lands and Slovakia, but also hierarchs who serve in parts of the globe not usually associated with Orthodox Christianity, from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and from North America. In and of itself, such a universal gathering represents a singular and significant event in the life of the Church demonstrating the new global reach of Ort…