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When Religion Goes Missing in the Modern Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…g of the Vatican Museum that brought countless such Classical treasures to Paris), it is hard not wax mournfully in the face of such religious depredations: How many works have lost their real value in losing their use! Thus every day we see reduced to the tribute of barren admiration all the scattered mutilated fragments of antiquity—gods without altars, altars without worshipers. (A-C Quatremère de Quincy). Gods without altars, altars without wo…

Let Them Be

By Sara Friedman

…e Prize and has been compared by a German magazine to Mother Theresa, a comparison that does not entirely displease her. As for condoms, Sister Sol says: “You can be married and well-heeled; you don’t have to be a prostitute—if your husband is philandering, you still have to protect yourself.” She pulls out a paper she has written that cites a number of Catholic clergy from priest to Cardinal who concur that condoms may be the lesser evil than dea…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…s exhumed the graves under the supervision of an Israeli archeologist. The number of skeletons taken out of the site numbered between one thousand and fifteen hundred. According to Gideon Sulaimani, an archeologist who worked at the site before the court injunction went into effect “They call this an archeological excavation but it’s really a clearing-out, an erasure of the Muslim past.” In 1984, George Orwell’s great satire of totalitarian regime…

Goodbye to Amy Winehouse, Living Celebrity Dead

By Mathew Schmalz

…xed with slack lime and tobacco. My friend and I chewed paan together many times. I couldn’t admit the likely connection between the carcinogenic paan that we shared and the cancer from which my friend died. A visit to Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris, with its graffiti and wine bottles, proves the tenacity of our linkage with the living celebrity dead. The offerings outside Amy Winehouse’s north London home only thinly veil the guilt we share in the…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…pline and Punish, Foucault describes an almost surreal public execution in Paris on the 2nd of March 1757: a convicted murderer is submitted to flesh-tearing, burning sulphur, molten lead, burning oil and wax, and finally drawing and quartering with horses. When the horses failed to pull him apart, his limbs had to be cut at the joints until the horses finally broke the man. Unbelievably, he lived through all of this. Later, in the end, his corpse…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…hland Church, Dr. David Gushee of Mercer University, Rev. Sam Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Ron Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action, and Katie Paris of Faith in Public Life. **Note: As noted above, these groups are not mutually exclusive; Schulz was also interviewed in Progressive & Religious….

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…se, it needs these acts of terrorist violence—in Baghdad, Dacca, Istanbul, Paris, Brussels, and Orlando—to shore up its credibility as a global player and give the illusion of power. Its followers are taking credit for anything that might be construed as an ISIS-related assault. Branding a terrorist act has become as important as what motivates it. Even if it turns out that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did in fact have some jihadi connections, the initial ev…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g a program that resettled hundreds of persecuted [LGBT] Iranians.” Arsham Paris, executive director of the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, told the CBC that some “1,200 LGBT people from places like Iran, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia who have left their home countries for Turkey and are now waiting to be granted refugee status.” Said Parsi: Turkey is not a safe country for homosexuals. So they become more conservative, and there is a…

Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…women. They (we) are more prominent, more vigorous and more strategic than Paris ever imagined. Just listen to Gender Concerns International, headquartered in The Hague, with offices in Pakistan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Myanmar. “What we need is equal responsibility for the climate and equal responsiveness to the climate from both men and women.” I was as astonished at the lack of human rights language as I was about the gender shifts, visible…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…deniable that many of these changes were triggered by the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Africa, North Africa, and Asia; as a result, cultural and religious institutions in Europe are facing many serious challenges. And yet even if this central assumption is true and Caldwell’s overall analysis of cultural and demographic evolution of Europe is correct, the author examines the questions within the primitive trappings of “The Green Per…