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2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…Baby Conference. At the conference they honored Michelle Duggar, mother of 19 children as an example who “has encouraged many women to embrace the blessing of children and rejoice in the high calling of motherhood.” Finally, while 2010 saw developments in the Creationist Movement, it also sought to frame environmentalism as an anti-Christian Pantheisic religion that threatens human life across the planet and launched the Mysterious Islands Campai…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…et a killer who did keep up the performance, but with things like September 11th and al-Qaeda, or, persons like Osamah bin-Laden, at least I know they exist. So, it’s not magic. The prophet said, “If a man washed in a river five times a day, would there be any dirt left on him?”, and the companions said, “No our Prophet, there would be no dirt left on him.” “That,” he said, “is what happens to the soul, when one prays five times a day, no dirt is…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…ork that other nonprofits had done for years.” Even after Chavez’s death in 1993, the UFW never regained its capacity for organizing. At its height, the UFW had 70,000 workers under contract; today that number is no more than 5,000 and the UFW serves mostly as a hub of a network of nonprofit agencies. Ganz does not explain why Chavez came unglued or how Dederich came into his life and was able to wield such influence in the union. But in telling t…

Buddha-Mind, American Style

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…live longer, as we all know; Gertrude Baines, an African American woman, is 114.) One hundred and twelve years on this earth: it is a staggering, an almost biblical, figure. Walter Breuning was born in 1896. This was the year of the first modern Olympics, held in Athens, Greece; he has lived to see them held in Beijing, China. Mr. Breuning was also born the same year that the US Supreme Court (in Plessy v. Ferguson) established the principle that…

Christian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity

By Elizabeth Shively

…21, had done more harm than good, and he in fact stopped production on the 1997 book that has sold more than a million copies. (Harris also wrote Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship in 2000 and Sex Isn’t the Problem, Lust Is in 2005, though it was first published in 2003 under a different title). In 2016, Harris agreed to work on a documentary, I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with director Jessica Van Der Wyngaard, in response to growing c…

Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…t by the Church distance itself from the hard-line tactics instituted by SB 1070 author Russell Pearce (R), who is LDS. Last summer, Latino Mormons in Arizona publicly raised their voices to decry SB 1070 as a contradiction to core tenets of the faith, including the Mormon emphasis on the sanctity of the family. Some sources credit the large number of LDS men and women who have served missions in Latin America with creating greater empathy among U…

Deifying Pope Francis Obscures Where He’s So So Right, So So Wrong

By Daniel C. Maguire

…r on his grandchildren. The crowds grabbing at the pope’s garb were in the spirit of the sickly woman in Matthew’s gospel who knew she would be healed if she could but touch the hem of his garment. Paul and Barnabas were impressive figures also and they had a devil of a time convincing the people of Lystra that they were guys and not gods. But pause and peek through the pious papal haze and you will see that Francis is a man; a truly great man in…

We Are All Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…rst step in the implementation of the ﬁndings” is a personal meeting “in a spirit of mutual respect and collaboration.” This is rather fanciful since the LCWR leaders who received the document were not at all sure it was coming. They went to Rome with the intention of engaging in dialogue, not being presented with a fait accompli. Second, this move seems like an effort to cut off the head of lay people in the Church, beginning with the nuns. The…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…donism), and biodynamic farmers, whose movement grew out of the explicitly spiritual work of Rudolph Steiner, are quite comfortable with spiritual, cosmological language. Scholar Melissa Caldwell points out that in Russia, “‘natural foods’ philosophies represent the natural environment as a source of sociability and spirituality,” and Russians feel nature “not only produces but also nourishes and protects the Russian nation.” Personal gardening is…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…the upstart Protestants” during the Eastern Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem in 1672. He also quotes at length from a confession written at that synod. But it was Eastern Orthodox leaders who gathered at the Eastern Orthodox Synod, not Catholics. Still, I found myself unexpectedly moved by this book. In aggregate, all these stories of cannibalism—ravenous fish mothers eating their fry; doomed Donner Party pioneers roasting their dead—make for a kind o…