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What Does Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism Mean for Jewish Philosophy?

…ou come to mind—as an apt metaphor to depict the life of the mind. In this spirit, I would step back and speak about the dance. I have never separated the speculative and the experiential. I realize this may confuse some people and it may be responsible for my being left out of certain groups, but I have always been committed to the belief that thinking is a contemplative exercise. I view writing, too, in this vein. My creativity expresses itself…

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The High Church of Art

…museum escape the fiction of its own secularity and thereby rediscover its spiritual roots, its spiritual task? It is telling that Sweeney’s bold vision was not entirely successful. He resigned from the Guggenheim when Harry Frank Guggenheim encouraged him to promote “a more popular educational approach.” And he was later asked to step down from his post at the Houston Museum when his “innovative if controversial curatorial approach came up agains…

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Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

…l economy, driving social crises, and driving something along the order of spiritual crisis as well. To be fair, this church-as-lens perspective seems mostly to have emerged as a matter of convenience. Jay Reinke had opened up his church to itinerants moving through the town of Williston, looking for work and drawn by the lure of oil. Jesse Moss, the filmmaker, was himself one of those itinerants in a sense: he was an outsider who’d been drawn tow…

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Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

…others like her—as women who refused to surrender the freedoms of mind and spirit they found through their faith, no matter how the human institutions of religion closed in on them. *** No Turkey For Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant Reactionaries decry that activists have come for Confederate statues and for Columbus Day, but for the most part Thanksgiving seems to remain untouched. A cynic might note that neither of those aforementioned obse…

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Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission

…y. David Begnaud, chronicling the desperation and the fear, the inimitable spirit and dedication to community. David Begnaud, amplifying the cries for help, the cries of thirst, praising those delivering aid and, at times (as at the airport), seemingly singlehandedly prompting the delivery of such aid, through his broadcasts. Since the storm hit, he has been both relentless and reliable, a paragon of old-fashioned, shoe-leather reporting, investig…

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Mormons React to Prop. 8 Ruling

…in this country, and we urge people on all sides of this issue to act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility toward those with a different opinion.” As we’ve reported here at RD, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, responding to a letter from the Church’s First Presidency read over the pulpits during Sunday meeting in June 2008 and other organizing efforts headed by high-ranking and local Church leaders, contributed the…

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Narcissistic Christians and “Pants Down” Journalism

…ma and Big Insurance that exert pressure on public policy. Imbued with the spirit of self-righteousness, such Christians begin to flaunt the narcissistic components of their personality that might not have been so easily detected until they began to bask in the glow that can ensue when public personalities get placed on a pedestal. Over time, they deceive themselves into believing that their desires are in sync with Jesus’ call for their lives. Th…

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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

…a change in the message from Italy’s conservative bishops as “a burgeoning spirit of acceptance in pockets of the church’s grass roots.” The Church’s influence has been the main reason Italian gays lag behind their European peers when it comes to legal recognition. We noted last month that Francis suggested he might be open to civil unions, which Catholic bishops helped defeat in Italy in 2007. The new tone from the pope has, the Post reports, “em…

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Rejecting the Binary: Why Left v. Right Doesn’t Work

…al campaigning and fundraising. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson’s book The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It has done a good job explaining how the endless campaign discourages making a deal between opponents. The need to raise funds for the next campaign causes candidates to be uncompromising. If candidates were given the same amount of money for campaigning, it would change the dynamic because the need…

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Bill O’Reilly’s Biblical Misremembering

…eprogrammed storyline of the bravery of American soldiers and the intrepid spirit of beloved journalists who arguably cheered on the march to war in the first place. Once he admitted to his false account, rather than prompting the media to face larger questions over inconsistencies in the accepted chronicle of the war, Williams was essentially out of a job—a fate that would likely befall my friend from grad school were she to pull the biblical cur…

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