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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day

By The Editors

Independence Day doesn’t tend to cause as much dissonance as Thanksgiving, as much confusion as Juneteenth, and isn’t as widely reviled as Columbus Day (aka Indigenous People’s Day). Yet, while it “is not America’s birthday,” as Peter Laarman argued nearly a decade ago, Independence Day is every bit as apt as the holidays above to initiate—for better and certainly for worse—a discussion about what the American project actually is, what it was mea…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…Americas announced her death in this simple, traditional way: “We pray in thanksgiving for the life of Sister Mary Theresa Kane, who died August 22, 2024, in Watchung, New Jersey. A Sister of Mercy for 69 years, she was 87 years old.” Theresa Kane was, in my view, the most consequential, respected, and beloved American Catholic woman of the last half century, without whom enormous changes could not have happened. Theresa was born Margaret Kane in…

The Myth of the “Bipartisan Pro-Life Majority”

By Sarah Posner

…igious right publicly scolded Nelson and Casey for voting, just before the Thanksgiving recess, to bring the bill to the Senate floor. Anti-choice groups are going to score that vote to begin debate on the bill as “anti-life.” Never ones to use the carrot and stick approach, organizations like the Susan B. Anthony List and Americans United for Life are all stick: “Senators should consider themselves on notice: America is still waiting for you to s…

Scalia and a Supreme Being

By Ira Chernus

…y Court with “God save the United States and this Honorable Court”; annual Thanksgiving proclamations issued by our president at the direction of Congress; and constant invocations of divine support in the speeches of our political leaders, which often conclude, “God Bless America.” All this, as I say, is most un-European, and helps explain why our [American] people are more inclined to understand, as St. Paul did, that government carries the swor…

Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…the current atheist vs. religion debate. At its best faith in God is about thanksgiving, shared suffering, loss, pain, generosity, and love. The best religious people and the best secular people learn to ignore our chosen (or inherited) religions’ nastier teachings (be those found in the Bible or in the “science” of eugenics and white racial superiority) in order to preserve the spirit of our faiths, be it a faith in secular humanism, science, God…

Giving Thanks to Genocide

By Jonathan L. Walton

Controversy erupted this week in Claremont, California over a traditional Thanksgiving ritual. For 40 years kindergarteners from Condit and Mountain View elementary schools have participated in a holiday feast where students dress in traditional pilgrim and Native American costumes. Yet one parent launched a protest in recent weeks that caused the school district to rethink their custom. Professor Michelle Raheja, my colleague here at UC Riversid…

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…ck on the institutional power of the church led to great changes. Enormous numbers of people were “professional” religious. Luther urged them to stop trying to save their own souls: they should leave the monastery, go into the community and bake some bread, make some shoes, teach in a public school, build up the life of the community by serving the neighbor. Luther rejected the distinction between divine church and secular world, the world was as…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…: In one of those better-late-than-never moments that came one week before Thanksgiving, Bob Jones University of Greenville, South Carolina, issued a belated, but seemingly heartfelt, online statement apologizing for “allow[ing] institutional policies regarding race to be shaped more directly by that [segregationist] ethos than by the principles and precepts of the Scriptures.” In 2000, Bob Jones III, then president of the university founded in 19…

A Room Without Rants

By Andrew Pessin

…lot, and loudly, and all at the same time. If they were your family during Thanksgiving, they’d be talking with their mouths full. It would be almost amusing if it weren’t, on some important level, rather tragic. I’m referring, of course, to the nonstop talking heads who can be found at almost any hour of the day, talking nonstop, all over television and radio. They talk about everything and nothing, so much so that they actually blur the distinct…