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Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk

By Stephen V. Anderson

…tate and federal officials and agencies step in and ban the burqa in lower Manhattan. Turns out the libertarians are Obama, Bloomberg, and the evening commentators on MSNBC and the socialists are Palin, Giuliani, and the evening crew at FOX News. The hypocritical have become the hypocrites. There’s a remarkable scene in The Return of the King, the third movie (and book) in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Christ figure, Aragorn, off…

Abe Foxman’s “Irrational Or Bigoted” Positions

By Daniel Schultz

…roposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan, intensifying a fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom and the meaning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The decision by the group, the Anti-Defamation League, touched off angry reactions from a range of religious groups, which argued that the country would show its tolerance and values by welcoming the center near the site where radical Mus…

A Memoir of Jewish, Transgender Spirituality

By Joy Ladin

…reat time doing the photo shoot on the roof of my girlfriend’s building on Manhattan’s upper west side. More importantly, I now understand why my press thought it was important to have my face on the cover. A number of reviewers and readers have said that it would have been tough to read through the pain and trauma the book details if they didn’t know the result was the smiling face on the cover. Is there a book out there you wish you had written?…

Murdering Sleep: Madoff and MacBeth

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…isited her husband every Monday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, until his sentencing in June, and his eventual transfer to the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Durham, North Carolina. Her accounts were frozen, including her Social Security payouts, and at high noon on July 2, 2009, federal marshals took possession of their 64th Street penthouse, which had been her primary residence since 1984. She left with a single str…

I Was Wrong About Occupy

By Donna Schaper

…ny more. I was wrong. We do need physical outdoor space. Trinity Church in Manhattan, sometimes meanly—and unfairly—referred to as a real estate corporation with an altar, could even give it. They own an empty downtown space at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street that is gated (providing security for occupiers) and accessible to public transportation so that allies, visitors, and media could join them. I really thought this demand was a sideshow until T…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…Lent, a group of activists has stood outside of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with a large banner reading “When did we see you a stranger and make you feel welcome?” The line is from Matthew 25, and the activists have also chosen Matthew 25 as their alias. The strangers being referred to in this action are the many undocumented Americans being targeted by the Trump administration. There are close to a million undocumented immigrants living…

Does Religion Still Matter?

By Haroon Moghul

…ss. Timing I went out. Everything was closed. This is the problem with not-Manhattan. One must plan for things like nutrition, otherwise one can very well starve to death. I came back to the room, defeated and malnourished, and ordered a gigantic burger and a diet Coke, which was on reflection not a good idea—one day later and I’m still digesting that decision. (See also: not sleeping.) Curiosity By the time I got to the airport and through securi…

Dear Timothy Keller: The “Evangelical” Problem isn’t Pollsters

By Jessica Johnson

…e racism and sexism that African American voters, who turned out in record numbers during the Alabama Senate election, rebuked with their ballots. Devon Crawford, a 24 year-old divinity student at the University of Chicago, traveled home to vote against Moore because his version of Christianity “sanctifies the truth-making power of white men” and is “really just a masquerade for white supremacy.” Why should white men define the scope of what const…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…ony with others finishing up their confirmation today at another church in Manhattan. Back in his office, Father Shea tells me how amazed he is to find young adults like those three looking to join the Catholic Church in this day and age. He slouches into his chair, sinking comfortably into plush black leather. But he gets more riled up when he mentions the “anti-religion, materialistic, consumeristic, pleasure-seeking” culture he sees us living i…

Poor, Persecuted Dinesh D’Souza

By Sarah Posner

…stepped down as president of The King’s College, an evangelical school in Manhattan. In his book What’s So Great About Christianity, D’Souza had engaged in his own excesses of righteousness, claiming, among other things, that high divorce rates were caused by the “secular ethic.” Yet when he showed up to be the keynote speaker at a conservative Christian conference with a much younger woman sharing his hotel room, while he was still married to hi…