Religion Dispatches
…the emergency room; being pushed out of my queen-size bed at night by a ten-month-old who insists on sleeping right in the middle; countless random commutes; and, sometimes, holding a baby for hours after I’ve come to my end of holding capacity. It doesn’t help that my second daughter is pushy about whether or not I should be allowed to sit down any longer when her baby remains fussy. Still, when you get around these bug-eyed bundles of joy, some…
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…ing and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, and he faces a sentence of 51-63 months in prison, $20,000-$200,000 fine, and $1,000 in restitution. While the majority of insurrectionists were men, 72 women have been charged so far. Anna Morgan-Lloyd of Indiana apologized and cried in court for the “savage display of violence.” Then the next day, she gave a different story to Fox News when she said that people were “actually, very polite” during the…
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…r. Or even that I had the biggest crush on you because of that movie. (A 24-year-old Pakistani nerd is like a 13-year-old lovelorn white child. It’s not racism, it’s anthropology.) I’m apologizing because I saw this morning, and now returning back to the coincidence, a story on Fox News: “Lindsay Lohan converts to Islam?” The best way I can describe Fox News is that it is the white Christian version of the propagandistic hate, from language to tec…
Read More…and the diminished likelihood that anything as cohesive or coercive as full-on Hebraist-Zionism will take root. Today, it’s more a matter of selling something gentle and positive to discriminating consumers, adults as well as children. The problem for the BJE now is not so much irrelevance as redundancy. Other organizations, says CJP, including Brandeis University, the Boston Hebrew College, the congregational-based programs, the day schools, and…
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…Protestant population of Haiti is somewhere around thirty percent. In Port-au-Prince that number jumps to almost forty percent. The majority of these churches are Pentecostal. These churches are overwhelmingly independent, indigenous Haitian entities, though some are linked to North American denominational Pentecostal churches. Haiti, along with Jamaica and Puerto Rico, is home to one of the fastest growing Pentecostal populations in the Caribbea…
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…ream of the Synod of Bishops, punctuated by anger as I read the summit’s 41-page report. This past Friday I saw New Ways Ministry’s statement, “Synod Report Greatly Disappoints, But We Must Have Hope,” while walking down a busy DC thoroughfare. In it Francis DeBernardo, executive director of the LGBTQ+-affirming Catholic organization, points out how, despite previous documents discussing the welcoming and inclusion of LGBTQ Catholics, there were n…
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…his week that the US Agency for International Development has given a multi-million-dollar grant to fight tuberculosis to Nahdlatul Ulama, a Muslim organization that, while it campaigns against Muslim extremism, has also supported the recent anti-LGBT backlash in the country and called for legislation providing “rehabilitation for every person with LGBT tendencies to return to normal.” Zambia: Churches oppose condom distribution in prisons At AllA…
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…enhanced. Our use of technology can thus enrich and extend meaningful face-to-face relationships rather than necessarily excluding or otherwise diminishing them. It is the blurring of the virtual/real boundary that made me so pleased when one of my digital besties, Pastor Keith Anderson, stole a moment from the celebration of his own incarnation to share a link to the most recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “The Social Sid…
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…There will be less reliance on or need for religious experts: namely, full-time, seminary-trained, ordained or authorized clergy. “Membership” as currently defined by (and deemed essential for) the institutional church will have no meaning in a postmodern, emergent world. People will belong in both an organic and fluid way to those groups or cohorts that provide their lives with meaning, that meet their spiritual hungers, that equip them to encou…
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…otagonist of Collins’ series, is haunted. And not in a romantic, mysterious-in-her-misery kind or way—I mean crushingly, lastingly, there-is-no-happy-ending-to-this-story haunted by the violence she has inflicted, and been subject to. Collins packages Katniss’s disturbance in the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, including flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance of triggers, guilt, and sudden reactivity. Once you see this, other young…
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