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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…

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…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…Before they got to Plymouth, while they were still marooned way out on the Cape, they raided Native food stores and a child’s grave, helping themselves to “some of the best things” they found in Indian dwellings. Later, and despite their official detente with the Wampanoags, they embarked on an unbroken rampage of expropriation and murder. Even pop historian Nathan Philbrick, who generally loves to throw a glowing halo over the exploits of white A…

Dear Reader, I’m Assuming You Don’t Know Any Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

Last Thursday, a reader from Cape Coral, Florida emailed the following to RD’s general mailbox in response, it appears, to my recent review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book, Heretic: Moghul naturally sees Islam as a religion, one of the several of mankind. I do NOT see Islam as a religion, but rather as a dangerous, repressive, subversive, anti-humanistic, military, financial and commercial conspiracy designed and intended to dominate the entire wor…

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…

His Life in Our Hands: Remembering Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rking lot and fussed with the dial, confusing the chanting of the crowd in Cape Town—“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!—with static. When the clear, mellifluous voice of arguably the greatest advocate of justice and peace alive at the time spoke to the South African people, I wept with many around the world: “Comrades and fellow South Africans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand h…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…the surf could erase the fresh footprints of the settlers on the beach at Cape Cod. The Puritans of New England were arguably among the most educated people in the history of the western world. Drawn from an upwardly mobile yeoman class, and populated by ministers, scholars, and merchants, they were some of the most unlikely candidates to forge a new civilization in the frontier wilderness. Yet their propensity to interpretive obsession led them…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…andra, but spread rapidly to other areas of Johannesburg and eventually to Cape Town and Durban. All in all, at least fifty people were killed, while tens of thousands of immigrants were left homeless, cowering in police stations, churches, or overcrowded refugee camps. Just a week or so before these attacks, I had visited some of these areas, as part of a project entitled “The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities,” based at the Social Science Re…

Church of Jedi Takes Advantage of Turmoil

By Gabriel Mckee

…tsaber battle in their backyard. Arwel Wynne Hughes, wearing a garbage-bag cape and swinging a metal crutch (lightsaber), leaped into the yard shouting “Darth Vader! Darth Vader!” He struck Barney on the head and punched his cousin, Michael Jones, on the leg. In a court appearance, Hughes claimed not to remember much about the incident, owing to the box of wine he had drunk beforehand. A Welsh court sentenced Hughes to two months in prison (suspen…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Taiwan, where the Constitutional Court ruled last month that the civil code restricting marriage to ‘a male and a female’ is unconstitutional. The Court gave legislators two years to amend the Civil Code. The article says, however, that “the Court’s arguments for same-sex marriage were not entirely straightforward and left room for further interpretation”: It could be that this was due to the Court’s desire to cool down the same-sex marriage d…