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Secede, For The Kingdom of Bernie Has Come Near

…one. Or maybe the Sanders folks might go the secession-in-place some conservative Christians have tried, isolating themselves from the more corrupt and inequitable forms of American society? There’s something to that, actually. No, the “cult of personality” jokes you hear aside, I don’t expect the Sanders movement to “weaponize religious liberty” any time soon. But thinking about secession in terms of old-style fundamentalists or Pentecostals—the…

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Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

…rief, the court said it was convinced that it is “feasible” for contraceptive coverage to be “provided to petitioners’ employees, through petitioners’ insurance companies, without any such notice from petitioners.” The court basically instructed the Obama administration and those claiming religious objections to go back to the table and negotiate a way to “arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates petitioners’ religious exercise while…

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5 Reasons That Cartoons Are the 21st Century’s Great Metaphysical Playground

…metaphysics are thinking about it, and from a very young age. Cartoons provide a vehicle for philosophy that’s more playful and open-ended than the sort in sermons or journals, one that doesn’t attach “-isms” to itself, demand its audience take metaphysical sides, or even take the questions too seriously. Big questions are tough. Questions about the nature of reality, the existence of a God or gods, death, souls and the essence of morality are ha…

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Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

…ving a spiritual chord struck. Samba drums inspire dance; the long, narrow vuvuzela horns provoke the possibility of deafness; and waves of people universalize in a moment the personal affection for the game. But there exists a stadium in this tournament that will be remember more for human pride than the beautiful game played within it. Mbombela Stadium (literally meaning “many people together in a small space”) in the city of Nelspruit cost $137…

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6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

…r again, we insist that we are not the world’s policeman, and yet we get involved in police actions with astonishing regularity. We intervene selectively, we make huge mistakes, but we insist our intentions are good. I recall something about a certain road being paved with good intentions, but it must not be an American road, since it’s so hard to get those paved these days.   The United States was able to eliminate Libyan air defense systems in d…

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The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

…arely enough time to talk about mortgage laws; there was no way we could have even scratched the surface of vampirism. Interestingly enough, none other than Karl Marx wrote that, “Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” As a small business owner, Rodgers does not share this mistrust of capitalism. However, he did agree that there is a systematic problem in American…

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Gingrich and Hagee, End-Times Buddies

…nversion to Catholicism, they have both orbited the same nexus of neoconservative foreign policy and apocalyptic biblical prophecy for quite some time. Examples: same claims about new “Holocausts;” same claims about cosmic, civilizational wars. Most recently, there’s been a remarkable synergy between both mens’ comments about the revolutions unfolding in the Middle East. For example, on February 7, 2011, at the height of the Egyptian uprising, Hag…

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Equally Blessed: Wear a Rainbow Ribbon to Mass

…YouTube [see below]. The video is of a mom speaking to bishops which is a very powerful and hopeful message. One of the things about this campaign is that it is the people are leading the bishops, because the bishops were very quiet on the LGBT suicide trend that happened this fall. Catholic people are taking leadership in a way that the bishops did not. What was the catalyst for the creation of Equally Blessed, and what do you hope to accomplish…

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Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

…omen, Marian seers wield the authority of charisma. In some cases, seers have even challenged priests and bishops. Marian piety can also serve as an outlet for end-time prophecies. While Jesus is the central figure of Protestant millennialism, when lay Catholics suspect the world might be ending they turn to Mary. Ibrahim has never preached of a coming catastrophe, but pilgrims agree that Mary’s arrival in Windsor signifies dark times. One visitor…

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Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

…heir concerns about the definition of a “person.”  “The Hobby Lobby case involves federal RFRA,” they write, “the operative terms of which are nearly identical to Senate Bill 2681. One of the principal questions in Hobby Lobby is whether for-profit corporations are ‘persons’ within the meaning of RFRA. If that position prevails in the Supreme Court, it may well influence state courts to similarly interpret state RFRA’s, especially those with ident…

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