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The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…e duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. If the public officials decide to officially approve of the acts of the wicked, they must logically not protect the righteous from the wicked. In fact, they must become protectors of the wicked. You cannot serve two masters; you must pick – God or Satan. This characterization derives from Christian Reconstructionist theology, says Julie Ingersoll, associate professor of religious studies…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…cial status” as monk or nun. Large monasteries in the TAR often have an “unofficial” monastic population that can be up to half of the official number of resident monks—a kind of waiting list. Although residents of the monasteries, where they work and study, these unofficial monks and nuns have little status and no real privileges in these institutions. (For example, they are not allowed to receive a share of monetary contributions made to the cle…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…dent, she was worried that another Russian national (i.e., not the Russian Official) would attempt to seize the initiative, as demonstrated in her Twitter conversation with the Russian Official: Butina: It would be good if you could talk directly with the MFA or the administration. Before [Russian national who attended the breakfast] worms his way in there. Russian Official: Everything will be fine. I already conducted the necessary informal consu…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…onsequence, they face numerous charges including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, for which the maximum sentence is 20 years’ imprisonment. 235 rioters were charged with obstructing an official proceeding. One was Josiah Colt, who was photographed swinging from the Senate balcony, and then jumping down into the Chamber and sitting in Mike Pence’s chair. Colt drove with two others carrying a cache of weapons in the car including a Glo…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…mbitious critic George Steiner at the age of 90. While both men were prone flights of metaphysical abandon and strong opinion, it was Bloom who was more widely known among the general public, whereas at times even literary theorists and critics seemed unaware of Steiner. It was their loss, for the polymathic Steiner was arguably the most brilliant, engaging, and creative of the twentieth-century’s English-language critics. Steiner was incapable of…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…yself. The Economist reports that ultra-orthodox Jews have been disrupting flights when they’re seated next to women, which, they say, their religion forbids.* According to the report, the men will sometimes even attempt to bribe the women to move. Ok, so no huge deal there—it’s annoying, perhaps, but hey, that’s the free market economy at work. The problem is what happens if the woman/women won’t cooperate. As one news source described a recent o…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…seen little other than Brooklyn and small town Illinois take long, cramped flights to dusty Lahore and crowded Cairo. Young women raised in the comfort of suburban Virginia and the freedom of college campuses take long, hot summer vacations with curious, opinionated relatives in Jeddah and Teheran. It is from first generation immigrants that the American-born Muslims learn this yearning for the homeland. First generation immigrant Muslims are a wh…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…ere stuck late at night in an airport somewhere while a storm grounded all flights and I just started telling you over a couple of beers about the odd events that happened to me a few years ago and how they mirrored events that happened to me while I was a child. I’d probably never see that person again, but I wanted that person, the reader, to never forget the story. What’s next? You know, I’m not really sure. I’ve caught a bit of the unexplained…

Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…rc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1181395164499070976&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fculture%2F2019%2F10%2F9%2F20906371%2Fellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-controversy Jamil, baffled about the outcry, took to Twitter to defend her friend and admonish her audience that kindness was a virtue, and that DeGeneres had made “an incredibly necessary point” when she argued that we should be kind to those “who don’t share the same beliefs.”…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…rvice this week. The feet of undocumented immigrants are battered by their flights from violence, poverty, and war. Right now, they are also ready to run from the possibility of deportation and the possibility of yet another separation from their families. Whose feet will Cardinal Dolan, so willing to pray over President Trump, choose to wash? When Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he told them that “no servant is greater than his master.” W…