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Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…arrested, inspiring sympathetic demonstrations by religious supporters in Greece, and cries of outrage among his political allies in Russia. It is too early to say what all of this will means, but the astonishing complicity of a religious institution—and a monastery, no less—in real estate wheeling-dealing and international politics is intriguing. And to be sure, Father Ephraim was not working alone. He made his deals with government officials i…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…acher. Jesus trudges on through Assyria and Babylon, then comes at last to Greece. He expressly wishes to study Greek philosophy (“full of pungent truth,” 44:1), but here the same pattern of disappointment continues. Jesus is welcomed by the Athenians, much as they will welcome the Apostle Paul some decades later, and they invite Jesus to share his teaching. He is introduced to the priest Apollo, “Defender of the Oracle,” but he learns nothing fro…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…1976 to set up an electronic link and thus, merely by pushing a button in Greece, to kindle a fire in Canada). But who came up with this idea? Not Coubertin, and not the French. No, the Olympic flame was invented by none other than the Nazis, no strangers to the power of ritual in the mass. The modern Olympic flame was first cultivated at the Altis of Olympia in 1936, then carried overland by runners from Greece to Germany (the event in Leni Reif…

Will SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…o concerned with clearly biased government religious expression in Town of Greece. As Justice Kagan’s powerful dissent outlines, in that case “the Town Board select[ed], month after month and year after year, prayergivers who will reliably speak in the voice of Christianity” and thereby “infuse[d] a participatory government body with one (and only one) faith, so that month in and month out, the citizens appearing before it become partly defined by…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…a random sample size and therefore isn’t statistically representative. The number of individuals reporting victimization in Episcopal spaces is alarming nonetheless. However, I would argue the data is more likely to under- than to overestimate the scope of the abuse that occurs. To see why, the survey results must be interpreted in light of the Episcopal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+…

“Saints Are Only Human”: Leaving the Church, But Heeding this Pope’s Lessons

By Elizabeth Colmant Estes

…slogans about immigration reform. On line I heard that parishes with large numbers of undocumented immigrants had received many tickets. No outside food or water, statues, gifts or selfie sticks were permitted. Despite 10,000 folding chairs, most of us would have no choice but to stand. Once in my appointed place behind the last row of seats, I found myself in a community of fellow pilgrims, lottery winners from local parishes, nearby colleges, an…

Religious Right Breaks the Bank to Fight Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…urch buildings and equipment during the campaign. Most of the rest went to airline tickets, hotels and meals for church officials. Focus on the Family, the evangelical Christian media empire based in Colorado, reported giving $657,000 in cash and services to promote Proposition 8. All this money was thrown around by the religious right (forcing the other side to waste money fighting them) that could have been used to improve the lives of the 7.6 m…

Saint Michael… Spied in a Stump, Haunting Larry King

By Anthea Butler

…ngs over and over again, dancing in the streets, and even buying expensive airline tickets to Los Angeles, hoping for a long shot lottery ticket that would let them into the inner sanctum of the Staples Center for the memorial service. I’d say that already makes for thousands of devotees—even the Rev. Sharpton, whose dance moves [image left, more here] at the Apollo in honor of St. Michael were more like a Bacchanal than a holy Ghost dance. All of…

The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art

By Jonathan Fast

…r. Later that night he killed himself with a bullet to the head. He had an airline ticket for Iowa, where he planned to visit a friend, and $17,000 in cash strapped to his body. So a crime that at first seems a rara avis reveals itself as the common gray sparrow of a disgruntled husband venting his rage on his wife and in-laws. What distinguishes it as “newsworthy,” beyond the scope of the tragedy and horror of the killings of innocent children an…

Does Prayer Work? Do Prayer Studies Work?

By Wendy Cadge

…or more: Cadge, Wendy. 2009. “Saying Your Prayers, Constructing Your Religions: Medical Studies of Intercessory Prayer.” Journal of Religion 89: 299-327. Email us at info@religiondispatches.org for a copy….