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Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…ion to the book, in that I’m introducing readers to a group of massively influential, but largely overlooked, black editors. And I do hope that readers will find the book enjoyable. Contributors to antebellum black newspapers were smart, inspiring, and incisive writers (who were also often incredibly funny). These qualities make black newspapers themselves a real joy to read, and I hope that some of that pleasure makes its way to my book’s readers…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…trived (successfully or not) to teach. After all, what happened to William Miller? Hal Lindsay? David Koresh? Harold Camping? Their followers? Each tried to read the books of the Bible—including Revelation—in order to predict a coming apocalyptic end. Each—some of them multiple times—were wrong about their predictions. Part of the reason that these endless predictions were wrong was because they weren’t asking the right kind of questions about the…

Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

By Peter Montgomery

…ke, the human condition and social conditions change. What is the fundamental principal of the New Testament? It is one of universal love, loving your fellow man, and if we get obsessed with a particular definition of that through a form of sexuality, then I think we’re missing the centrality of what the gospel, whether you call it a social gospel, a personal gospel or a spiritual gospel is all about…. If you think homosexuality is an unnatural co…

The Papal Prayer Machine

By Peter Manseau

…specializing in sharing and answering prayer requests deliver followers to portals (like this and this) where the nature of the relief sought can be made known without a specific petition appearing next to your avatar. While some accounts, such as @request_prayers and its affiliated site www.prayerrequest.com, are crowdsourced, others have volunteer prayer teams standing by. @OurPrayer, the prayer request handle for Guideposts magazine, offers a d…

National Catholic Reporter Endorses Women’s Ordination

By Megan Sweas

…nts out the case of Sr. Carmel McEnroy, and Sr. Louise Lears also comes to mind. Bill Callahan is another case in point, though the excuse used for expelling him from the Jesuits was not as clear as in Roy’s case. And there have been countless others. But I’m left to wonder: Did the persecution of a man make a difference? OK, maybe not, but I’m just wondering. It’s a valid point, NCR’s editor Dennis Coday told me, but it wasn’t about Father Roy. T…

CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

…dron Collider was being used to revive the Egyptian deity Osiris or open a portal to hell, C.S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength (1945) told the story of government scientists secretly carrying out the work of the devil. By 1955, tales had begun to spread of “The Philadelphia Experiment,” in which a secret naval experiment had allegedly sent a battleship to another dimension, driving its crew insane. Even Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things is…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…e their share of official hate-mongering. So has the United States’ principal ally in the Middle East, Israel. As David Sheen has noted in these pages, none other than the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, invoked biblical passages to call for the eradication of Palestinians. Far from being an isolated outburst, Sheen observes that other senior rabbis have done likewise, routinely drawing on a confessional vocabulary of wholesale destruc…

Lessons From a Spiritual Failure

By Joanna Brooks

…ook, I didn’t set out to fail: I set out to write about reading the spiritual classics and undertaking one-month trials of spiritual practices they recommend. But my year ended up being a difficult one. I could never pull it all together. When it was all over, I confessed to my editor: “I have not managed to succeed.” And she convinced me to call the project “Flunking Sainthood.” So this ended up being a project about failure instead. It was very…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…treat infections.” Another doctor had similar horrific memories. “I saw chemical burns, as well as perforations of the bladder, vagina, uterus, and rectum. Some women came in with overwhelming infections or in septic shock.” These are just a fraction of the horrors from the world that Comstock made. In curtailing the information about and access to reproductive health care, misinformation and predacious entrepreneurs thrived. Women, desperate and…

‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ogether in powerful yet troubling ways. No wonder a list of even a child’s minor pains—along with the frustrated pain of the parent behind the lens—has caught the eye of so many people. In an interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Greg Pembroke, the father behind the post, explained that he was inspired by the ambitious, gorgeous photography of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York project which chronicles the denizens of New York City in al…