Religion Dispatches
…ries of finance is in order,” says Ibrahim Warde, a professor of political science at Tufts University. There are any number of ways to think about economy in terms of right and wrong, but the Islamic case is different in an important sense. “Unlike other pockets of ethical finance,” he points out, “it does exist in institutions,” which are competitive enough to survive and available for study. Warde makes sure to add, “We should not go overboard,…
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…mdrum Cooper rising to do what stunningly attractive physical specimens, masculine and feminine, believe is entirely their preserve. Though that, too. Take, for example, Nargis Fakhri, a.k.a. Lia the very pleasantly unpredictable eye candy, an assassin with no backstory. Does she need one? We know she’s bad, because she looks—you know, physically, outwardly—TSA suspicious. (TSA rhymes with NSA.) She’s got that Muslimy vibe, which is key to the red…
Read More…say they are not religious. The percentage of respondents who said they subscribed to the views of the Church of Scotland has fallen drastically from 35 percent down to 20. Catholicism, 15 percent and other Christian denominations, 11 percent, remained at a similar level. In addition, the percentage of those who say they are religious but non-Christian, remains at 2 percent. In May the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will consider wheth…
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…itled “A Hybrid Hope.” The S.U.V.’s on the stage, a Chevrolet Tahoe, Ford Escape and Chrysler Aspen on loan from local dealerships, were all gas-electric hybrids, and Bishop Ellis urged worshipers to combat the region’s woes by mixing hope with faith in God. “We have done all that we can do in this union, so I turn it over to the Lord,” General Holiefield, a U.A.W. vice president for Chrysler, told the crowd. A vice president for the parts supplie…
Read More…y, and defense to Iraq, in some polls the combined total equals or even outscores the economy as the number one issue on the voters’ minds. Two out of the three campaigns are actively pushing the war back onto center stage. Hillary Clinton recently said: “Since we now know Sen. McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that.” Well, we may not all know it yet. Appar…
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…hip with death. This is new territory. For years now we have been able to escape our physical spaces with our phones. But Pokémon Go doesn’t just allow us to avoid a “real” place in favor of a “virtual” one. It has instead transformed our real spaces into virtual ones. It may have been bad manners to play video games at a cemetery, or to take a selfie at a funeral, but with Pokémon, the funeral, the cemetery, and now even the Holocaust memorial an…
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…no matter how religious they are. The herrenvolk have exquisitely woke consciences—but only for the people who look and talk like them. They lump the others into the category of “the undeserving poor” and seek to cut their benefits, a story going back at least to the New Deal. The idea that faith can dislodge this kind of white supremacy and privilege on an electoral level is nothing more than wishful thinking. These people have faith, but it fue…
Read More…ything that would not be translated as normal. Immigrants learn to self-consciously section life off into the religious and the secular. In the homeland, this is not so much a necessity. Sometimes it is—and the extent to which this happens, of course, depends on your personal tastes, the cliques you belong to, or the kinship circle.—For the homeland is a box of chocolates, as Forrest might put it if he were an immigrant from Khartoum, and the asso…
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…for shying away from hot-button religious culture war battles, “visited by phone” with Rowan County, Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis yesterday, according to a statement issued by his campaign. “I let her know how proud I am of her for not abandoning her religious convictions and standing strong for religious liberty,” the former pastor, Arkansas governor, and now two-time presidential candidate said in a statement. Arguing that “the Supreme Court c…
Read More…ear in agreement with what we are doing. I may ask for your church’s name, phone number, and Web site to verify your stand. What I see as the sin at the heart of Grizzard and Jones’ actions—as well as at the heart of anyone who seeks to violently control the free will or belief of others—is lust. These men lust for control; and in their lust they objectify others, people they call “heretics” or “sinners.” Lust, in and of itself, is not a bad thing…
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