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The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…) “The current bleak situation is strengthened,” writes Brooklyn College historian Louis Fishman, “by the fact that there is a total lack of will by the Israeli state to promote co-existence and to educate the Jewish population about the national minority within them, that they too have a legitimate right to the Land. In fact, while the current government plans at allocating money to strengthen Israeli ties with the Jewish diaspora, there are none…

Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…ious left,” said Leigh E. Schmidt, a historian at Washington University in St. Louis, and the editor, with Sally M. Promey, of the recent book American Religious Liberalism.“The idea was, surely there is something besides simply a secular left.” That something often does not look very churchlike. The Smith and Promey volume, which collects papers delivered at the Princeton and Yale conferences, includes essays on Bahaism among early-20th-century a…

Police in Ferguson Keep Praying and Preying

By Anthea Butler

The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were spending the night in the church, which has been used as a staging area for protestors. Police have since closed the building and stated that if anyone congregates on the premises at night, there would be arrests. One member of the Dream Defenders said “what [the police] did today is tell us, what? There is no safety here.” The Pastor of the churc…

Like “The Bachelor,” But for Jesus: “The Sisterhood” Episode 1 Recap

By Jo Piazza

…ear pretty much whatever they want within the boundaries of simple modesty. Summary: The producers of “The Sisterhood” know what to do to create good reality television, but the first episode distinctly lacks much of the true reality of the discernment process to become a sister. Let’s see what happens next week. …

What the Ferguson Protests Mean for Religious Progressive Activism

By Shannon Craigo-Snell

…a group of black millennials, assisted by clergy of various faiths in the St. Louis area, supported by national faith-based organizing groups, something new is happening in Ferguson. This is an anti-racist movement that is diverse, diffuse, and democratic. It is also deeply religious. It is religious because people of faith are key to its operation and sustenance. It is religious because the protesters are participating in prayer and liturgy toge…

The Racial Dimension of Trusting in Police Violence

By Eric C. Miller

…important and pressing contemporary topics. (His Washington Post piece on St. Louis County municipalities and the poor is excellent too.) In chapter seven of his book, Balko observes that political impressions of police violence have everything to do with who orders it, who receives it, and why. If the standard conservative view in this instance holds that police need to be well-armed and vigilant when dealing with black suspects, previous instan…

The “Nones” Are Here… And Have Been for Over 100 Years

By Emily Mace

…? Another Ethical Culture leader, Percival Chubb of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, offered even more potent commentary in 1931 which relates to the similarities between what he referred to as the “strays on the religious frontier” and today’s “nones.” He called the world of the “nones” the “territory of the unchurched,” where people “have left the churches to which they belonged—mainly by accident of birth—to join the ranks of the unattached. S…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…ources for, or models of, a more sustainable environmental ethic. What’s most interesting, to me, about this film is that it shifts the interface between religion and the environment, entirely. In The Overnighters religion is neither poison nor cure. Instead, the church becomes a filter, of sorts: a lens through which we see, with a new kind of clarity and a much closer view, the social havoc that is being driven by a major environmental change; a…

Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

By Shannen Dee Williams

…nited States, for example, white Catholic sisterhoods were among the fiercest strongholds of racial segregation and white supremacy. The majority of white orders remained staunchly opposed to the integration of their ranks through America’s Civil Rights movement well into the 1960s, and most never had a single perpetually professed U.S.-born black sister in all of the 20th century. Moreover, archival records and oral history reveal that many pione…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…he lesser charges was the denial of prescribed psychiatric drugs. Even the strongest proponents of the death penalty would have a hard time arguing that a life sentence there would be getting off easy, much less that it’s a rehabilitative environment. Few would question the desire for revenge in cases like the Boston Bombing, where several people died and hundreds of others were wounded and traumatized. It seems somehow natural for the state to se…