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A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rupted empire. “It gives light to everyone in the house”—along with health care, education, and a stable retirement. Kind of like Canada or Sweden, but with better weather. The deregulatory spiral of the Greenspan years (through the Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and G. W. Bush administrations) surely dimmed the lights on that dream, prompting, these last few weeks, protestors around the country to amend the beatific vision much as the later gospel wr…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…well as his take on how religion has been shaping—and misshaping—the political landscape. __________ RD: One of the things you are fighting against in this book is a literal reading of the Bible. Why do you believe people insist on reading the bible literally and not daring to ask, or even trying to form, the questions? JS: We put an aura around the Bible that makes it very difficult to look at it any other way than as some mystical book that drop…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ich were SO FUNNY!) Ha ha! Oh, stop, my sides hurt! Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Name-calling, slut-shaming, and bullying a woman is a nasty (not to mention obvious and overdone) thing to do. On the other hand, if you are inclined to shame and harass women, thanks to what I can only imagine are your uncontrollable and debased urges, what exactly is your recourse? How can you become a healthier, happier, more well-adjusted person? Some serious an…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…aught us a whole new dimension of empathy. Perhaps the best tribute to him came from one of our number who famously and irreverently said: “I put my trust in Howard Moody and God, in that order.” We are forever grateful for this good man. ____________ Editor’s Note: As a generalist, an editor frequently must guide and shape work on unfamiliar topics. Having heard only that Rev. Moody was one of those “hip, old preachers in the Village,” I set out…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…jects of jest. This approach is analogous to that of the traditionally African-American Krewe of Zulu. Scholars of American Jewish humor often draw parallels with traditions of African-American humor, and the comparison between Krewe du Jieux and the Krewe of Zulu is an easy one. Zulu has a longer and deeper history in the city, originating in a social aid and pleasure club, which is a form of social service organization that emerged to serve the…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ve into a vast, terrifying sea, which even those afloat on the saving wood can scarcely cross?… O hellish river, human children clutching their fees are still pitched into you… Human cruelty is like a deadly flood that people pay admission to chuck their own children into. Why children? Because they are the ones still being taught how to be “one of us.” Infancy seems to have something of a theological cipher for Augustine. He can’t remember his ow…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Word on the subject, along with an indescribably spectacular 42 years with Carol, caused me to be so intensely pro (natural) marriage. I was once asked by a secular news reporter, “Has your love for Carol and her cancer battle impacted your fight for marriage.” “Yes,” I responded. Why? Because I saw the wonder of covenantal one man-one woman marriage. I saw the sheer delight of authentic, biblical, natural, historic, God-defined marriage. The co…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…otherwise excellent coverage of the military’s violent assault, the Times cannot escape a challenge to its fundamental worldview. Like the Muslims who cannot believe al-Qaeda are Muslims who (appear to) believe that what they do is justified by Islam. This doesn’t mean that liberals are a priori authoritarian, or that Islamists are reflexively democratic; it means, instead, that we continue to impose onto the Middle East a set of categories grou…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…postmodern, and self-reflexive in the extreme—as well as informed by mystical and ethical traditions which resist oversimplification. Son of God and Noah don’t just represent two different ways to read Scripture, two different ways to make films, and two different marketing demographics. They also represent two sharply different ways to believe, to be in the world: one inspired by the pure and the simple, another suspicious, if not contemptuous,…

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…me that their health care institutions were taking root. However, the landscape of Catholic health care has changed. Catholic hospital systems are well established and fully integrated into healthcare delivery in the U.S. In fact, the Catholic Church manages a full 1/5 of all U.S. hospitals, according to The Revealer. Those hospitals are 50% funded by public funds. These Catholic hospitals are increasingly overseen not by women religious, but by l…