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Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…rican Archbishop of Canterbury. But who? Take Thabo Makgoba, archbishop of Cape Town, who sits in the chair once occupied by Desmond Tutu. Makgoba trained as a psychologist and is young (by the standards of bishops), educated, and eloquent. He has been outspoken on the continued deterioration in Zimbabwe and the persecution of the Church there by the Mugabe regime, as well as racial and inter-ethnic violence in South Africa. Nigeria has more bisho…

Crying Witch: Learning From the O’Donnell “Dabbling” Debacle

By Spencer Dew

…ll dolls released by an action-figure company, featuring the stereotypical cape and pointy hat of a Hollywood witch-villain, merely reinforce this point. O’Donnell’s Bad Date Yet if we assume that whoever O’Donnell was “dabbling into witchcraft” with wasn’t any sort of Wiccan, what sort of Satanist might he have been? Diane Vera of “NYC Satanists, Luciferians, Dark Pagans, and LHP Occultists” released a statement to the press honing in on one of t…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…ic presence, all 400-plus pounds of it, usually sitting on a throne with a cape and scepter. His entrepreneurial instinct had him not only singing at the Apollo, but selling Solomon’s magic popcorn in the aisles. Traveling and singing throughout the Jim Crow South that refused to serve traveling black musicians like Walker and Burke, he sold pork chop sandwiches to other musicians on tour. His prodigious family of 21 children, 90 grandchildren, an…

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

By Liz Bucar

…viewer misses that they’re also about ambition and corruption. The Piux IX cape was the largest and most elaborate piece on display, and quite impressive with its detailed embroidery. But there’s no indication that it was commissioned by Maria Anna Carolina of Austria to bribe the pope for political favor; nor that Piux IX was one of the most authoritarian leaders in church history. Religious clothing matters when we understand it in a particular…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…ir history and religious heritage: Bois Caïman is one of many Haitian landscapes where the divine Vodou community (Lwa) mercifully answered its devotees’ prayers for guidance and protection during their struggle to liberate the island from slavery and colonial rule. In all religions, gods are summoned to support their devotees in times of war and peace, tragedy, and celebration. Vodou is no different. Vodou priests and priestesses were first respo…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…e often referred to as the “Big Five” in Africa. The African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the African leopard, the rhinoceros, and, of course, the African lion compose the celebrity group of animals for the hunter. They each made this list not because of size or rarity, but because of the danger supposedly involved in hunting them on foot. Each of these can be quite ferocious to a human being endangering them. The term “Big Five” came into being du…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…r papal bling, including his red shoes or fur-lined, ermine-trimmed winter cape). He speaks of Francis’ “maneuvers” and calls him the “chief plotter.” And he repeats the question of conservative journalist Edward Pentin’s recent book about whether last year’s synod was “rigged,” echoing its conspiratorial overtones. Of course he fails to note that Pentin’s book, which amounted to an elaborate rehashing of that question, offered no proof of any “ri…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…petrated, was to rob the graves of the Indians who lived near Corn Hill on Cape Cod. And we know that is the reason, the real reason, Pilgrims starved that first winter. They robbed Indian graves. The next spring when the local Indians brought in Tisquantum (Squanto) to interpret, he told the Pilgrims was they needed to return the jewelry stolen from the bodies. And we also know that the grave-robbing did not stop. We know that universities and mu…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…eagues gave the sticker test to 1,170 kids at schools in six cities—Amman, Cape Town, Chicago, Guangzhou, Istanbul, and Toronto. “Altruism was calculated as the number of stickers shared out of 10,” they write. The researchers also gave the kids another test, in which they watched videos of people hurting other people, and then judged (a) how mean the bullies were, and (b) how much punishment the bullies deserved. Then Decety and his collaborators…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…r me, even more addictive than a box of chocolate truffles or a big bag of Cape Cod potato chips (with sea salt, naturally). I know too much about the book’s setting in Pasadena and the neighboring village of Altadena, where I lived the tiny bungalow life for ten happy years. I also know too much about the inner life of congregations. And I recently soaked up more than I ever expected to know about the inner workings of Unitarianism, thanks to joi…