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The Sacramental American Day of Thanks

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…which all citizens of the United States participated. This was what Bellah called the American civil religion. The matter of parallelism was important; here was an independent tradition that did not touch the particular commitments of particular religious traditions like Christianity, Buddhism or Islam. This civil religion has it own sacred documents (the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the Ten, yes ten, Bills of Rights), its own…

Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…terview with the Reverend Rick Warren, founder of the Saddleback Church in California. Though it may have begun as a publicity tour for Warren’s new book on Christmas, it ended as a surreal biblical sojourn into fictional foreign policy. Watch it here, courtesy of Think Progress: And here’s a transcript of the crucial moment in question (my emphases in bold): HANNITY: Can you talk to rogue dictators? Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, wants to wipe…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…ervatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.”—Paul Weyrich quoted in John Soloma’s Ominous Politics: The New Conservative Labyrinth For most Americans, the death of Paul Weyrich will not resonate; after all, most Americans have probably never heard of the man. He wasn’t a dashing celebrity, a sports star, a captain of industry, or a prominent publi…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…a “Popish” and “pagan” holiday, owing much too much to the Roman festival called Saturnalia (after the great Latin god, Saturn). True Christians, these Purists argued, only celebrated Easter. Still later, the whole domestic and private edifice of trees and turkeys and elaborate gift-giving (in part imagined as a reaction against the public drinking and wassailing) were a creation of the 19th century. And the evolution of that alternative traditio…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…cans live in a kind of perceptual bubble—a bubble related to but not identical to financial bubbles of recent memory—we have never seen the full extent of the devastation wrought by the “Washington consensus” on the lives of others and on the life of the planet itself. We’ve never seen the effects of the global sweatshop up close; we’ve never seen what privatized water markets look like in places like Bolivia; we’ve never asked whether there might…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…ort). I show how the mountain became “visible” as a landmark. I use this local history of place-making to illustrate a national history of displacement. All over America, settlers and their progeny displaced native peoples and native geographies even as they created new places and place attachments. As part of becoming “native” to their new home, settlers freely appropriated from the people they just dispossessed. They bestowed pseudo-Indian place…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…cialist and started organizing. Which is why this narrative ended up being called the Acts of the Apostles. Prior to the fire descending, the story was heading in the direction of “pitiful messianic sect, one of many, now fizzling out.” Following Pentecost, the headline became “energized new nonviolent movement challenges the violent values of a corrupt Roman Empire: watch out, world!” Until, of course, the Christians were seduced into letting the…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…09) Alva Noë is a cognitive scientist and philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, who has spent the last 15 years working with researchers studying consciousness and how it works. His new mind-altering book, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, addresses a philosophical mystery: how do we know that we are who we think we are? How do we really know that other people are co…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…and the Israeli Right has blossomed into a long-term relationship. Evangelical Christian Zionists now call for unconditional support of the Israeli Right and its Settler Movement, even when that movement is in opposition to the policies of the Israeli government. Huckabee’s three-day visit was spent in support of the Settler Movement’s most extreme elements, including the “hilltop youth,” young settlers who have established outposts that their own…

Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…country to do this for such a time as this,” exhorted Viviana Hernandez, a self-identified chaplain from Brooklyn, as the microphone was passed around the audience. “This [the tea party movement] is being birthed by the Almighty. Because He started this nation, and He does not want to turn it over to those who are godless, to those who would take our children, and just use them and abuse them and destroy their destiny.” Whether Hernandez felt move…