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Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the Christian liturgical calendar for October 13 is saint- and celebration-free at present. So, I’m going to be so bold as to suggest that we use the day to mark the ascendency of digital religious social media embodied in the live-streamed reality of the 33 Chilean miners being raised like so many Lazaruses from the tomb of a mine 2000 feet deep in the earth, where they’d been trapped for 69 days. Oh, the event was clearly a broadcast media bonan…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…ing Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to the bacterium that causes syphilis, so that different therapies for the disease could then be tested on them. First, infected prostitutes were identified and made freely accessible to ‘volunteer’ prisoners for sex. When this didn’t work so well, attempts were made to infect patients i…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…AFA of Michigan, similar to another AFA effort in Iowa, where its Iowa for Freedom (headed by Huckabee’s 2008 Iowa state campaign chair, Bob Vander Plaats) is waging a campaign to oust state Supreme Court judges over their votes declaring the state’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Vander Plaats’ campaign, as well as the AFA’s “hate-filled comments,” prompted a denunciation by the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa. Earlier this year, back in Michigan…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…ared and demonized him as an atheist, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, communism-promoting, one-world order-creating, evil mastermind of the progressive movement (even though he himself is a foe of communism and anti-Semitism). He’s wealthy; he’s a philanthropist for justice causes; he’s a Jew; he’s therefore the scapegoat, whether conservatives invoke tropes about wealthy Jews or their secret control of money or an imaginary one-world order; or as Beck…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…me and Constantinople, expanding the Holy Roman Empire (then just parts of Germany and Italy) to recreate the vast unified realm of the Caesars. Otto and Gerbert brought two of the scourges of Europe—the Vikings in the north and the Hungarian Magyars in the east—into the Christian fold. They established the Polish Catholic Church and sent missionaries to the Prussians, Swedes, and other pagan tribes; they strengthened the empire’s ties with Spain…

When Nazi Comparisons are “Civil”

By Sarah Posner

…aust, and claims that LGBT rights infringe on (real) Christians’ religious freedom. In his video released in conjunction with the Manhattan Declaration, Colson called the Declaration “crucially important for religious liberty,” adding that the government has expanded so much that it has caused the breakdown of what he calls “civil society” — “the clubs, the political parties, the grassroots organizations, the local government, particularly the chu…

The King of Irony

By Laury Silvers

…nation in films of racist hate rallies, whether in anti-Semitic rallies in Germany in the 1930s, in Alabama in the 1960s, or in Yorba Linda this February. What kind of “cooperation” does King want? In reporting instances of planned violence, Muslims have been not just cooperative, but proactive. The Nigerian would-be airplane bomber was reported by his own father. The attempted Times Square bomber was first identified by a Muslim street vendor. Wo…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nd Counter-Reformation. Or the fact that in 1589, Stubbe Peeter of Bedpur, Germany, confessed (under torture and threat of imminent execution) to being the serial rapist of his own sister and daughter, a child murderer, a cannibal, and a werewolf who had sold his soul in a sort of Satanic contract. This was widely reported in all the new-print European tabloids of the day. And then there’s the fact that the Brothers Grimm were not the original sou…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…ference. Mormon women travelled from as far away as New York, Florida, and Germany to take part in the collective action organized by the group Ordain Women as a gentle and symbolic demonstration against pervasive gender segregation in LDS Church administration and leadership. All observant men and boys over the age of 12 are eligible for ordination to the Mormon lay priesthood, and the Church’s theological, liturgical, financial, and administrati…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…e church. The inscription beneath his stone image reads “God is great.” In Germany, a team of researchers have built digital models of synagogues destroyed by Nazis on Kristallnacht in 1938. Anglican vicar Alex Brown was convicted of performing 360 sham weddings for immigrants trying to stay in the UK. Vandalism against mosques and Islamic centers continues: There’s the vandalism in Madera, California and Hudson Valley, New York. Meanwhile, federa…