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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…at human brains do—tried to explain the incomprehensible in terms of the familiar—and discovered to its horror that there was a lot that seemed familiar. From Martin Richard’s gap-toothed grin, to the way his “No More Hurting People” sign was clearly carefully printed yet switched between upper and lower case, to the long eyelashes that his head had yet to really grow into… these are things I’ve seen in my own house, that I associate with one of t…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…about the act of pruning. Who hasn’t dreamed of simplifying their life, committing to minimalism, and limiting their possessions to the bare necessities? Many religious and philosophical traditions contain strains of such asceticism. From Epictetus to the Buddha, from Christian monasticism to Thoreau, there’s a long tradition of trying to make do with what you already have, and maybe learning to live with less. Silicon Valley, with a futurist and…

From ‘Management Gurus’ to ‘Corporate Chaplains’: A Review of Spirituality Inc.

By Brittany Shoot

…Troubled by some of the book’s inconsistencies in coverage and Lambert’s omission of faith-based economic justice movements, I spoke with director of Interfaith Worker Justice (and Religion Dispatches contributor) Kim Bobo, who offered some thoughts on the limitations of workplace spirituality. “I find it a bit of concern that, by and large, the workplace religion and spirituality movement has limited itself to questions of personal piety, person…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…ionship with a spouse and the sense of purpose that comes with raising a family.” That couples in the past might have had so much sex precisely because women felt obligated to continue offering sex, in exchange for continuing financial support, does not seem to enter Regnerus’s imagination. Neither does he imagine that husbands who eschew housework have more sex than husbands who do their share because the former are more self-centered or aggressi…

Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ations speak to this destructive dimension of our socio-cultural world. As Michael Dyson noted, Michael Jackson displayed on and through his body the love/hate relationship with self-image faced by many African Americans. But there is more to Michael Jackson’s appearance than this. Yes, he depicted in graphic ways the destructive nature of myopic beauty standards that African Americans battled against. However, Jackson’s transformation over the ye…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…folk worried about more than just computer failure. And then there are the millions and millions who could not and still cannot get enough of the Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Left Behind potboilers. At least LaHaye and Jenkins were smart enough to honor Jesus’ warning that “no one knows the day or the hour.” It made good business sense for them to honor it: the co-authors preferred to keep people guessing—and keep their book sales flowing. I was o…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…g cultural soul-search. Doomsayers warn of the advent of Eurabia and the imminent demise of European culture. In the United States, meanwhile, a controversial immigration law granting law enforcement officers wider powers to question and arrest suspected illegal aliens was adopted by the state of Arizona. The law, nixed this week by a federal judge, has sparked lively debate. At least one Republican legislator has recommended a change in the 14th…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…and Esther and speak a prophetic word of remonstrance. To begin with, the ministers can remind us of the obvious: there has been much hypocrisy in the immigration debate. All have sinned. The cheap salads and meats consumed at immigration policy conferences and stored in the homes of suburban America were placed there through the labor and sweat of “illegals” (so, too, were those suburban homes); the wine and bread served at communion tables arri…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…e for our nation right now: Consensus is possible if we avoid false dichotomies. We might be able to agree if we move out of the land of false dichotomies into a land of multiple problems, realistic caring, and mutual give-and-take. Both “sides” will have to give a little. Actually, there is no such thing as both sides. Most people use a cafeteria approach to the morality of the immigration issue. We pick and choose. The first step towards consens…

This is Not a Religion Column: Christian Candidate Quiz Bowl

By Jeff Sharlet

…slaves and Kenneth Tomlinson, tasked with bringing the “objectivity” of family values and laissez-faire economics to public broadcasting even as he funneled its funds to his personal horse racing operation; and the thieves of all varieties: domestic policy advisor Claude Allen, a moral values man convicted of shoplifting, Robert Stein, appointed comptroller for the Coalition Provisional Authority despite a 1996 fraud conviction, convicted again i…