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Abuse of Power is at the Heart of Catholic Church Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nemann offered an interesting way of looking at the shared paradox of Marxist and Christian attitudes toward revolution. The book, called The Moral Meaning of Revolution, offered the following new way of seeing, aimed specifically at the Christian churches: The point is not to abandon God talk for political talk, or even to translate God talk into political talk, nor to discern the political and worldly implications of the Gospel. All of these ass…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…Walter Johnson in his Broken Heart of America, a brilliant account of how St. Louis functioned as a vanguard outpost in the rise of this same racial capitalism). One can at least hope that the shorthand comes into general usage. To me it is creepily fascinating to observe how whitemanism’s own most effective promoters—the down-and-dirty, get-it-done operations like Heritage Action—don’t even bother to disown the racist core of the heritage they p…

Terror is as Terror Does

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ey refuse to make that distinction which lies at the very heart of the Christian inspired Just War tradition, as well as more recent canons of international law. And now the plot thickens, as terrorists appear in the unlikeliest of places. Nuclear weapons refuse to make this distinction. Pretty much all weapons of mass destruction are terroristic in this precise sense. And it is the linkage of terrorists with weaponry we have not yet recognized as…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…t to make the same mistake” as the U.S. did in 1939, turning away the S.S. St. Louis and “sending over 900 Jewish refugees back to Europe, where many died in concentration camps.” That incident, the letter continues, “was a stain on the history of our country — a tragic decision made in a political climate of deep fear, suspicion, and antisemitism.” The Orthodox Union, in its own statement, notes, “The Jewish community has an important perspective…

As Funny as the Times Will Allow: Obama on Late Night TV

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ible with tragedy, but it exists in uneasy relation to morality. Comic artists must be free to offend, free to be mean. This doesn’t mean that there should be no restriction on what the comedian can say, by the way; not at all. Comedians, like all artists, need constraints in order to show off their creative virtuosity. It is the audiences that need to restrain themselves; they need to permit themselves a laugh. Or not. The question, then, is not…

Postcard from the Vatican

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…olic) officiant: namely, a Christian representative of a tradition (like most Protestant denominations) that does not recognize the apostolic succession (implying that Peter was the first bishop of Rome, and that this Pope is his appointed successor), or the sacramental dignity of priestly ordination (meaning that it takes more to become a true minister of the gospel, and to remain one, than certain Texas-based websites suggest). So, no ecumenical…

Police in Ferguson Keep Praying and Preying

By Anthea Butler

The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were spending the night in the church, which has been used as a staging area for protestors. Police have since closed the building and stated that if anyone congregates on the premises at night, there would be arrests. One member of the Dream Defenders said “what [the police] did today is tell us, what? There is no safety here.” The Pastor of the churc…

McCain’s Failed Final Gambit

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…en if the script isn’t winning for you. Which brings me to the third and most distressing point. Tom Brokaw played a videotape of Rush Limbaugh’s semi-tirade about the Powell nomination last week. With hands cupping his mouth, Limbaugh actually shouted several times into the microphone: “It’s all about race, all about race!” McCain, asked to respond to that, said that he was disappointed by General Powell’s statement, but then repeated his package…

A Scholar Responds: Scripture as a Weapon

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…een the way religions function and the way our gun culture does. Perhaps most striking was NRA president Wayne LaPierre’s explicit connection of guns with “our way of life,” and implicitly, its defense. It is that implicit appeal to guns as a tradition that struck a real chord with this scholar of religion, and it warrants further analysis. In order to do so, I would like to add one further category to the analysis of the complex of cultural issue…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…President campaign, and landed at Harvard the next year in time for the first student takeover. I was in SF during the summer of ’68, when chaos was simmering, and in Chicago in August of ’68 when chaos erupted. I did the dope and lived the life. The sixties, as they did so many of my generation, made me. But what I have since read in academic discourse is never the reality I experienced. That came through instead in the literature of the times, a…