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Yale Clings to Racist Legacy… And Cash. Lots of Cash.

By Peter Laarman

…to see these old “liberal” institutions, all of which were built with what Lincoln called the “wealth piled up by 250 years of the bondsman’s unrequited toil,” sucking up to the new oppressors for additional gilding. It’s disgusting, in fact. Oh, and what about the decision to change “master” to “head of college”? Here is where the Corporation might have stood its ground for the sake of “teachability.” Surely even today’s Yale students are capable…

Rebooting the Universe: Doctor Who part X, Season Finale

By Gabriel Mckee

…the kindly robotic taxicab in Now Wait for Last Year, or the wise Abraham Lincoln robot in We Can Build You.) Dick drew much of his understanding of love from 1 Corinthians, a text on which he drew throughout his career, though he perhaps best summed it up in an interview in the late ’70s: “St. Paul said, ‘If I have not love than I am jack shit… or something like that.” Doctor Who’s writers seem to share Dick’s understanding of the blurry line be…

Heteronormativity: A Discussion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…copal Bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, to kick things off at the Lincoln Memorial on that same day, horrifying the very religious conservatives to whom he’d made his initial gesture. The President did exactly what he has said he’d do: listen to everyone, and give everyone a hearing. And thus, like many middle-of-the-roaders, he antagonized both extremes. Happy to have a hearing of their own, they had no intention of listening to the othe…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…ng several writing at RD. We needn’t rehash all that except to note that a number of the Summit’s participants suggested that the name of their movement poses a public relations problem. While the term New Apostolic Reformation* has stood the test of time for more than a quarter of a century, some don’t like it, mostly because others in the movement have been harshly criticized. Several speakers argued that NAR should not be used because, even amo…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…the Hammond family—who have, by the way, asked them to please stop. Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., 73, and Steven Dwight Hammond, 46, were indicted on federal arson charges and recently remanded to federal prison to serve mandatory minimum sentences under the 1996 federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Ammon Bundy received testimony that “the Lord was not pleased with what was happening to the Hammonds,” and called on like-minded civ…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…us “The peculiar genius of Martin Luther King,” writes sociologist C. Eric Lincoln, “is that he was able to translate religious fervor into social action.” As those embedded within religious institutions so often testify, shifting the parameters of dialogue—let alone galvanizing support for action—remains a thorny prospect. Yet it was in this process of cultural negotiation, reframing, and, ultimately, mobilization, that Martin Luther King Jr. exc…

Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)

By Jeremy Biles

…he movie theater or the political theater. With this in mind, recall Bruce Lincoln’s distinction between the discourse of religion, and that of history: Religion, I submit, is that discourse whose defining characteristic is its desire to speak of things eternal and transcendent with an authority equally transcendent and eternal. History, in the sharpest possible contrast, is that discourse which speaks of things temporal and terrestrial in a human…

Marriage Equality Closer to Law in Illinois

By Peter Montgomery

…onal Organization for Marriage. Morse invoked Regnerus, along with Abraham Lincoln, in urging legislators to reject the bill, saying that “so-called marriage equality” would create “structural injustices” for children. Also testifying was Linda Jernigan of Rescue Ministries International Church, who described herself as someone who “practiced homosexuality” for 20 years, raising two boys with another women, but who said she is “not a homosexual a…

From Empire to Shire: Rod Dreher’s Nostalgia for Middle-Earth

By Gustavo Maya

…ides of the battle, reading the same Bible and praying to the same God, as Lincoln famously declared. In response to Reconstruction, white southerners struck back with a vengeance. Segregation under Jim Crow and the accompanying deadly violence were justified by those who insisted that the mixing of races was against God’s design. The Civil Rights Movement asserted God-given dignity in the face of dehumanization. But I haven’t done justice to the…

Conservative Points in Pope’s Speech Include Liberal “Chasers”

By Patricia Miller

…ce and for the cause of the oppressed.” He also gave shout-outs to Abraham Lincoln, for his commitment to liberty; to Martin Luther King for his commitment to nonviolence and diversity; and to Thomas Merton as “a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between people and religions.” Nary a conservative icon among them—and both Day and Merton are beloved by progressive Catholics. Even when conservatives thought they had finally gotten to their part of…