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Equal Opportunity Apocalypse or: Our Psycho-Sexual Brouhaha

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the current state of the religion-and-culture wars? Perhaps. First and foremo*]}*st, one is struck by the nearly apocalyptic rhetoric on all sides. The liberal Obama’s gesture to conservatism is feared as announcing the death of the political left. The parallel gesture to the gay and lesbian community is thought to be the end of the world among some conservative hardliners. It is that strange note of apocalypse that struck me first, and gives me cause…

Black Media Fails Its LGBTQ Community

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…g a trans person out of his or her name is unfortunately a daily indignity most face. Racism adds another indignity. ”A white person who transitions to a male body just became a man. I became a Black man. I became the enemy,” London Dexter Ward, an LAPD cop who transitioned in 2004, told Alternet.org. And it wasn’t until Louis Mitchell became a black man that he learned that “driving while black” would be such an offense. Mitchell, who resides in…

RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate

By Mary E. Hunt

…clearly the better prepared to handle the job they seek. Governor Palin demonstrated a sixth grade mastery of graduate level material, a fact she constantly sought to cover with a wink and her grating, grammatically-challenged utterances. But I take cold comfort in such a “win” when the stakes are so high and the moral discourse so low. It is time to bracket personalities and hairstyles. It is time to get on with the work of finding, affirming, a…

The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the People, Lori Anne Ferrell does just that, telling the story of all the most precious Bibles in the possession of California’s Huntington Library (for whom she was curator of a 2003 museum exhibition). But this book also offers a luxurious visual walking tour through the manifold ways in which Bible-books are made, and how the people who make them also make them meaningful. Dancing between texts as diverse as the gloriously illuminated Lindisfa…

“Evil,” a Cautionary Tale For Iran

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, unlike Humpty Dumpty, not put back together again. But Iran provides the most important cautionary tale when it comes to the language of evil in modern politics; it is that nation’s president that Hannity so recklessly proposes “taking out.” From the Iranian perspective, then, the needs of the moment are clear enough. They have been named as one of the three primary enemies of the United States. Iraq, which did not have nuclear weapons, was inva…

As Larry Summers Gently Sleeps: Will Obama Ever Turn Against Plutocracy?

By Peter Laarman

…ough it means extreme agony for working families in places like Toledo and St. Louis. But here is the pièce de résistance: those photos of Larry Summers snoring through yesterday’s meeting between the POTUS and the credit card chiefs!! Wow, talk about photo ops gone bad! Larry can’t keep his eyes open for 30 frickin minutes while his President speaks for the cameras about the need for the banks to play fair and not pick the pockets of cardholders…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…rning point for the people of this country.” It represents a turning point most particularly for those who would continue to defend the statue at the ostensible center of the event, a monument to a confederate general in a park recently renamed to memorialize the end of slavery. The march organizers set out not so much to unite as to coopt, construing their own role as the “head” of the fragmented snake that, in parody of Ben Franklin’s famous rev…

Terminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e ride is a long one. Terminal 5 itself seemed empty, institutional, and almo*]}*st eerily silent. Terminal 5 is a product of the new post-9/11 realities. To be sure, many European airports have long segregated US-bound and Israeli flights, staging them all at one end of the airport where extra security can be provided, and where lines can be permitted to grow longer. That had long been true at the main Roman airport. But a separate terminal, only for…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…rch about efforts by the accused Kansas City priest and the Archdiocese of St. Louis to subpoena confidential records from SNAP. There, she wrote: While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for the Church to fight sex abuse cases more aggressively, even the Church’s staunchest defenders see the pattern. As William Donohue, the pugilistic president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civ…

AIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tions, from all around the world, actually had in common. The two features most commonly imagined by his predominately western audiences were the prophet as critic of institutional misbehavior and the prophet as predictor of the future. Weber was never particularly attracted by either idea. Instead, he offered an interpretation of the prophet that was notable for its elegant simplicity and broad comparative reach. The prophet, Weber suggested, is…