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Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…erforms simple gestures as a priest looking after his flock.” One of the most striking actions taken so far under the Francis papacy was a request that local bishops survey Catholics on a set of contentious issues, including premarital sex, homosexuality, and communion for divorced and remarried Catholics. National Catholic Reporter discloses that only about a third of American dioceses appear to have given laypeople the opportunity to respond to…

Greek Riots: “It’s a beautiful thing, freedom.”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ce, bring several personal memories to mind. The first took place on the western coasts of Crete, at an archaeological excavation with which I’d been involved for several years. The local head of the thirty-or-so workers we had employed, a lovely man who has since gone to his reward, was gazing out at the sea during a midday break, smoking a cigarette, quietly staring. When I asked him what he was thinking about, he responded immediately and with…

Murdering Sleep: Madoff and MacBeth

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, the nouveau glamour of it all. But when it all came apart, Ruth Madoff posted most of the $10 million bail to get her husband home, and she has stood loyally by him even at the apparent expense of her relationship with her two sons. She has suffered a “Leona Helmsley style” demonization since then, which has reduced her to sad, incognito forays in disguise to the market or the theater (tellingly, she has a passion for the theater). She visited h…

Oedipus Complexity: Is it Enough to Fire Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…y Weinstein’s pattern of predation went public. But the consequences contrast still more sharply. A leave of absence was not an option for Oedipus. Nothing short of exile from his political community would be sufficient. As I have watched the flood stories of misconduct, I have tried to note the consequences that follow. The accusations have varied widely in their particulars. Weinstein himself seems to have operated an open and thorough system of…

The Last Debate, Blow by Blow

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…both came out… swinging. McCain is still thinking about housing primarily, still insisting that Fannie May and Freddie Mac started this entire tumble—not the culture of corporate lying, irresponsibility and living like there’s no tomorrow. Obama, by contrast, refused to look backward, sometimes maddeningly so. He looked forward, and reassured us that the long-suffering middle class would always be his primary focus of concern when debating any pro…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…i [conventional themes]; indeed to the contrary. Jewish stereotypes of almost startling crudeness recur throughout the text, sometimes attached to Jews, but more often, and more interestingly, floating free of them. In these books, the Jews that play their role as practicing—that is, Orthodox—Jews and those who support right-wing policies in Israel (secular or religious) may be saved in the rapture as Jews. The fact that they needn’t convert to br…

The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’

By Randall Balmer

…hom devastating damage may result from unacceptable pregnancy.” Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, during the summer of 1971, the messengers (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution that stated, “we call upon Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood…

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…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Luke adds a few poignant tales from Jesus’ childhood, most notably the Christmas story with the shepherds, and the story of a precocious twelve year old arguing circles around the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem (Dowling likes that one, naturally, and expands on it in chapter 19 of The Aquarian Gospel). John sets the whole thing in a cosmic framework, telling us first that “the Logos was with God and the Logos was God,” then showing us how Jesus wa…

Race, Religion and the Colin Powell Endorsement

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ery little connection between Senator Eastland’s utterances and the voting statistics of his home county: that of a population of 31,020 Negroes, 161 are registered to vote. Once the final break is made between language and reality, arguments generate their own force and lay out their own logical rules. The current syllogism goes something like this: 1. There is no ill-feeling in Mississippi between the races; the Negroes like things the way they…