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AIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…No sooner had Weber offered his “unified theory” of the prophet than he subdivided the essential concept again, noting that there were two very different kinds of charisma with which he had to deal. On the one hand, there is the charisma of personality; on the other, there is the charisma of office. The two forms rarely, if ever, overlap. Prophets, Weber noted with what I imagine were arched eyebrows and a knowing smile, never come out of the prie…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…and the co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.” Douthat believes that “Conservatives are going to have to head into a long series of ideological fights within the party.” And the Party should recognize “that social conservatism, broadly understood, should be the bedrock of conservatism in America.” “Broadly speaking,” said Douthat, “the challenge for the Republican Party is not to jett…

RDBook: Christian Culture Clash

By Krista Kapralos

…and, to some extent, boring. It’s somewhat sophisticated and upper-middle class aesthetics. The sermons mention scholarship and Time Magazine as much as it mentions the Bible. Are northwest evangelical churches aligned with the religious right? With evangelicals, we never found a theocrat or a fascist. They’re very loyal to certain politicians, but very suspicious of politics. Some evangelical pastors were exceptionally critical of the politician…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ecade career includes teaching Christian education at the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School (now American Baptist Seminary of the West), Colgate Rochester Divinity School, the inaugural dean of Sister’s Chapel at Spelman College and professor of homiletics at Interdenominational Theological Seminary in Atlanta and the D.Min program at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Sure, she introduced us to Those Preaching Women. But she, along with…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…e, the son of a fireman who struggled to make ends meet, effectively wages class warfare against the party insiders and libertarian “faux-cons” in Washington; he lashes out at the likes of National Review magazine and the Club for Growth, whom he calls “the silk-stocking crowd,” for looking down their noses at the blue collar “values voters” that Huckabee claims to represent. Two chapters are devoted to holding himself up as the representative of…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e opposition around them. The idea for the book came in 1998 when I took a class in the martial art of Aikido. There are no offensive moves in Aikido—no kicks or punches. There are only defensive moves—using the momentum of your attacker to disable them. I thought it served as an excellent metaphor for “spiritual self-defense” for LGBT Christians. I also came across the Bible verse that became central to the book, 1 Peter 3:15-16: “Always be ready…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…t words, such as this photograph of a young woman yet to cross the hemline divide. * * * Sharman Apt Russell went back to the land, moved into town, wandered into the desert again, and literally kept reading every step of the journey, her nose in a book as she explored the mesas and riverbeds of New Mexico. The result is Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (Basic Books), a meditation on philosophy as a practical concern and the desert la…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…ation [about] how he might accomplish his dream [bringing together working-class Catholics and evangelical Protestants] when he attended a political strategy session run by liberal operatives.” Although Weyrich hadn’t been invited to the confab—and to my knowledge he never revealed how he got there—Martin’s book quoted him as saying that “there before my eyes was revealed the modus operandi of the left:” They had all these different groups, includ…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…r James to hang a picture of a pope on the blackboard so she can watch her class reflected in the glass. Sister James doesn’t have a picture of Paul VI, or even John XXIII, so instead she puts up a picture of a dour Pius XII. Sister Aloysius draws her power—the eyes in the back of her head—from the pontiff of an earlier era, the last pope before Vatican II. The film excises an explicit reference to the Council made in the play, but it’s still clea…

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America

By Ryann Croken

…the “wiped off the map” scandal: an entire country was reduced to a second-class leader who was reduced to a caricature who became a manifest casus belli. This is the same process of mistranslating a Middle Eastern country, recall, that led us into Iraq, and this reductive demonology is both representative and routine. Islamophobia has now become a socially acceptable subcategory of anti-Semitism. Fundamentalist and terrorist have become not fring…