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California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…olor further calls into question the use of this abusive practice.” As the numbers have grown, so have the numbers of critics, Wired reports, citing a series of “scathing reports and documentaries” released in 2012 by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. That same year, the US Senate held its first-ever hearings on…

Hands in the Till: When Priests Steal

By Paul Gorrell

…no one can explain a $400,000 shortfall in funds at his parish. In another Chicago-area incident, Rev. John Regan has been accused of creating a separate bank account and funneling parish money into it for his personal use. The thefts occurred between 2006 and 2008. He tended to use the money for gambling-related activities. He is charged with money laundering. Between 1993 and 2006, Rev. Rodney Rodis was accused of stealing $600,000 from St. Jude…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…’ll take care of you.” In return, you’ll vote early and vote often, as the Chicago political machine used to say. The “post-partisan” political faith Obama has come to embrace offers more help than conservatism but fewer guarantees than secular liberalism. It doesn’t demand political loyalty, it asks for earnest acclamation. To conservatism’s business elite and secular liberalism’s political elite, it responds with yet another ruling class: a “res…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, University of Chicago Press, paperback, October 1, 2008 Pound-for-pound, this concise collection of essays represents Eddie Glaude’s multi-faceted approach to black religion and politics at his philosophical best. Glaude brings the pragmatist insights of John Dewey into conversation with African American cultural artists to reveal similar problem-solving approaches demonstrated in the pu…

Al-Qaeda calls Obama “house Negro,” Muslims Answer

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…al-Zawahiri’s “threatening rhetoric and racial slurs,” a prominent imam in Chicago publicly condemned the statements, and imams in New York’s African-American Muslim community slammed the comments as originating from people who have “historically been disconnected from the African-American community generally and Muslim African-Americans in particular.” The fact that al-Zawahiri’s comments met an angry reception adds to pressure that al-Qaeda is f…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…d compared to other Catholic leaders in America. Cardinal Blaise Cupich in Chicago recently told priests that if I.C.E. arrives at a church without a warrant, they should be turned away. Cupich added that “the Archdiocese of Chicago supports the dignity of all persons without regard to immigration status.” Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who leads the archdiocese of Newark, stated that mass deportations are an “inhuman policy” that “destroys families and c…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…nix and the Dark Star. One of these events took place at City Lit Books in Chicago on Friday, October 12. The well attended event, audio of which is also available as a special episode of the Exvangelical podcast, concluded with an interview with Josiah, conducted by Blake Chastain and yours truly. 2) Exvangelicals Make National News, Including Television Debut In 2018, exvangelicals continued to make progress in terms of media representation, wit…

Make Way For The Homo Superior: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 6

By Mark Dery

…er, Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 97. 5. Partha Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art, ibid. 6. Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters, p. 98. 7. See Mitter, ibid., p. 99. 8. “Man-womanish”: Walter F. Otto, Dionysus: Myth and Cult (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995), p. 85. “Occasional shepherd”: When the sheph…

‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…William Derl-Davis, a reverend from the Independent Spiritualist Church in Chicago, and medium Joseph DeLouise exorcise the home of two newlyweds who claimed to be experiencing strange disturbances after moving into their new apartment. The crew were given crosses to wear for protection. DeLouise entered a trance and assumed the persona of an old woman whose spirit could not rest. Derl-Davis administered communion to the spirit and the exorcism wa…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…le of Regnery points out, the company, founded by Henry Regnery in 1947 in Chicago, and [i]nitially affiliated with the University of Chicago’s “Great Books” series, … became a leading publisher of old-guard, conservative writers such as Russell Kirk, James Burnham, and William F. Buckley, Jr.“ After being bought by Eagle Publishing in 1993, the company turned to red-meat conservatism, and published works by such authors as Newt Gingrich, William…