Religion Dispatches
…ta Press, 2015), “think of the wild as the commons, the everyday affective site of human-nonhuman entanglement.” The wild we encounter daily in city streets and forest floors messes with our neat and false divisions of “nature” and “culture.” Our earth becomes a deeply political, feeling, and everyday space of relationsip. Our lives are irreducibly entangled with other creatures. We feel them, we see them, they play with us, we choose not to see t…
Read More
…ed by the archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega. LifeSiteNews reported that similar marches took place in other cities, protesting the recent marriage equality ruling by the nation’s highest court. The site quotes an organizer Sofia Miranda warning that the ruling “opens the door to gender ideology and will destabilize our society and damage our children.” As we have reported,“gender ideology” is a term used by some members o…
Read More
…amily along with three other families had created a tent city on an unused site at a street crossing. They poured concrete slabs and illegally tapped into an adjacent power line for electricity. They dug into the ground and connected to the city’s water supply to have drinking water and dug a pit for a latrine. With television and a refrigerator, they managed to create a viable living space. The residents of Erbil were remarkably tolerant—sympathe…
Read More…view among a group of evangelical thought leaders interviewed for the web site Breakpoint, Hunter Baker, a lawyer and political science professor at Union University, opined, “Kim Davis’s office is obligated to perform the state function of issuing wedding certificates. She disagrees that marriage can exist between two people of the same sex. I agree with her.” But, Baker maintained, “the state of Kentucky has little choice other than to respect…
Read More
…defines what really disturbs traditionalists. Dylan Gwinn, writing for the site after the first two episodes ran, couldn’t decide at first if he were angrier that the series brought religion into the mix or that it seemed to criticize the early twentieth-century oil and coal industry. The brief review closed with an obtuse attack on “environmentalists,” the term itself making it seem as if the author just recently heard about a conspiracy called E…
Read More
…sly prefigured as a New Israel and a New Babylon, as Eden and Golgotha, as site of Genesis and Revelation. Formulated honestly, our myths can remind us of these contradictions. Just as the first Thanksgiving celebrated a moment of peace between the Wampanoag and their chief Massasoit, we also remember that 45 years later his son Metacomot had his head erected on a pike at Plymouth following the conclusion of King Phillip’s War. The settlers subseq…
Read More…dral Canon, was away in Canada dealing with visa problems. I went to their site to get directions to the church and ended up listening to several excellent sermons, including one the Sunday after the bombing at La Republique.) On this Sunday, Rev. Harper covered asserted multiple times and ways that politics and religion are siblings, not enemies. The Baruch 5: 1- 9 text mattered: “Take off the garment of our sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, an…
Read More
…on the Extraordinary Rite and Gregorian chant. However, the institute’s website two years later still says “full site coming soon,” with a video featuring stock music rather than chant, and its Facebook page has not been updated since 2014. Articles about the turmoil at the seminary repeatedly mention that Cordileone intends for a greater focus on Latin in priestly formation. But only two parishes in San Francisco continue to offer Latin Mass, lea…
Read More…ven with stuffed animals, old shoes and dirty candles still burning at the site of the terrorist attack. Paris itself was extraordinarily open to COP21—free subway rides, guides everywhere to help you find yourself. And French President Hollande gave extraordinary leadership throughout. Some even speculate that there was a sympathy vote for the French because of the attack. People from all over the world were everywhere, so that you felt you were…
Read More
…tionship. All of them can still be found on the Center for Integral Wisdom site. It’s difficult to take this statement seriously. When the CEO of a company includes a link to videos of himself in dialogue with a spiritual leader on his company’s website, it’s not exactly a ringing un-endorsement. Mackey’s glowing words about Gafni—accompanied by a brief description of Mackey’s position at Whole Foods—remain on Gafni’s personal website as well. In…
Read More