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Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…viding social services—feeding or housing the homeless, helping unemployed with job hunting—are overwhelmed, with staffers working 50- to 60-hour weeks. His own participation “is not about me, I’m not like a lot of social justice people who come into a movement and are invested in taking it over so that donations can be brought to X,” said Merritt. “I was just more willing to come to offer whatever help. I will probably be bringing gloves and hats…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…Quaker business meeting model and then, by force of Occupy Wall Street’s influence, switched to the anarchist assembly.) I would also like to interject that—and perhaps it is merely my rustiness with theories that makes me bring up a book both so (once again) obvious and so passe—I can’t help but think of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City. Big time. God dissolves into the occupation, and God’s name needs no longer be said. Whenever I come back to Libe…

Qaddafi Dies; Should it Matter How?

By Haroon Moghul

…uted, at the rushed trial, the incompleteness of the charges he faced, the willingness to use violence to end the rule of a very violent man. And, of course, at the vulgar, unnecessary, and unacceptable spectacle of a hanging captured on a cell phone. If there is something that should distinguish us from those dictators who have corrupted our world, it must be here. In humility before death. In appreciation of our common humanity. In the sense tha…

Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?

By Rachel Wagner

…ose up. The horrifying footage shows the dictator’s last moments, complete with flashes of faces splattered with blood, punctuated with off-screen shouts of “Allahu Akbar,” and revealing glimpses of Qaddafi’s pummeled and resigned visage blunted by repeated beatings. While the footage itself seems to bleed with the desperation and anger of a people who have felt powerless for too long, from the gamer’s perspective, this is merely a familiar storyl…

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the White House within a week. UPDATE: Another womens’ rights advocate tells me that she has “no reason to think” that the Obama administration feels it “owes” the Bishops for health care refo…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ecret Service prohibition on cell phones, because Makana’s guitar is tuned with a smartphone app. Or, reporters are interested in how Obama, his guests, and security detail responded—or didn’t, as it turned out. But this misses the heart of the story, as Makana’s set at the APEC dinner was less dissenting performance than performative utterance—the songs he played, the protest t-shirt hidden beneath the complaint dinner musician’s suit, and the se…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…r of the religious right. His black Baptist upbringing has taught him otherwise. I will probably get in trouble for saying this, but the way that black Baptists deal with sexual sin and the way most conservative white evangelicals deal with sexual sin are very different. Compare what happened to Ted Haggard, Jim Baker, or Jimmy Swaggart with Henry Lyons, Eddie Long and Jamal Bryant. Ted Haggard was ousted from his congregation, and went on an odys…

From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

By Joseph Laycock

…o strike a balance. It may be that both Catholic authorities and Baysiders will be take issue with how I told the story. If both sides are equally annoyed then I did my job right. 7. What alternative title would you give the book? My original title was “Until Our Church Hears Us.” I thought this title captures the strange relationship the Baysiders have with their Church. They are not a schismatic group and express a deep longing to be reconciled…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…Carcaño remains a committed ally of LGBTIQ people both Methodist and otherwise. She will have many more opportunities to demonstrate her support. Managing Finances, Not the Needy The economic recession is another factor in contemporary church life. Bishop Carcaño worries that churches will pull back on their mission to preach and work toward economic justice. They are more worried, she observed, about managing finances than caring for the il…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…ne” for hours of children’s church. “Don’t let Satan blow it out!” we sang with our wide eyes and serious smiles and we did this all for our children, our future, our little soldiers of the cross. I close my eyes and see you all—the blue work-shirted brothers, your white-teeth smiles, the gentle Jesus warmth of your eyes, sisters with your reaching hands to fill soup bowls, to smile and duck your heads at the compliment, “This is so good!” You tau…