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Why Such Outrage Over Star Trek Actor’s Geocentrism?

By Joseph Laycock

…lm claims that all stars revolve around the Earth because the Earth is the center of the entire universe. But advocates of science seem less shocked by the film’s absurd claims and even its inclusion of Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss than by the fact that it’s narrated by Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager from 1995 to 2001. Outrage over Mulgrew’s involvement demonstrates the ongoing legacy of Star Trek. By valorizing scie…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…kes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix. Start with the center-periphery model. Rome is the center; the Amazon is the periphery. A proper meeting about the region would have been held in the region, not in Rome. That way, bishops from around the world would have been in the minority, experiencing Amazonian culture on its own terms in all of its specificity, generosity, and struggle for survival. Some Roman types were heard to de…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…ited States. On that same episode, Dr. Don, founder of the Divine Wellness Center, and Mary Colbert, author and prophet, said that the spirit of the anti-Christ is on Hillary Clinton. Little of what Bakker and his guests are saying about Trump is unique. Where Bakker stands out from the crowd, though, is his willingness to use the election to hawk his goods. Certainly, media outlets—most notably Breitbart, but also CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC—seem to…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…. The word connotes a subversive Isaac on the periphery, witnessing to the center. But Isaac doesn’t simply live and work and love on the periphery. He lives and works and loves as if there is no use for a center at all. He refuses to forsake wildness. The word “prophetic” ends up being unhelpful because it attempts to describe an Isaac of this moment, an isolated Isaac suddenly emerging in discontinuity with the past. This is much less a propheti…

Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…ory yesterday by Politico’s Ben Smith on bloggers at Media Matters and the Center for American Progress who report on and analyze matters pertaining to Israel and U.S. foreign policy in a way not officially sanctioned as “pro-Israel” by the neoconservative foreign policy establishment, Block urged a conservative listserv to “amplify” the story as portraying the bloggers as anti-Semites. Smith’s story painted Media Matters blogger M.J. Rosenberg, h…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…Film Festival in January. I got to see the film at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress, at which both the bishop and the film’s director, Macky Alston, were present. The movie is compelling storytelling, even for those familiar with the outlines of Robinson’s story: his 2003 consecration as a bishop, the backlash from conservatives within the U.S. and global church, and the Episcopal Church’s decision at its 2009 general conventio…

Updated: A Response to President Obama’s Speech in Cairo

By Hussein Rashid

…of which is quoted in this article. Although he does mention Cordoba as a center of tolerance, I found it odd he did not mention Fatimid Cairo as well. Although less well-known, it was a strong center of Jewish life as well, and the current discrimination against Copts has little historical precedent. It would have been a good reminder to the Egyptian population as well. At the end of a section on religious freedom, he says “We can’t disguise hos…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…of the National Council of Negro Women, in setting up her family planning services in Harlem. These mitigating factors are often lost amid the inaccurate or out-of-context reports about Sanger and were further obscured last spring, when a group of anti-abortion activists made taped calls to numerous Planned Parenthood clinics. Posing as racist donors, the UCLA student-activists requested that their money be used to abort the fetuses of black wome…

A Pastor’s Suicide: Addressing Mental Health in Black Churches

By Darnell Moore

…e saved, 20 new ministries were implemented, Camp Zion was created, a life center was erected, and a new sanctuary is under construction. In his continued effort to win souls to Christ, Pastor Parker served as CEO of Next Level Community Development Center Inc., a ministry offering a summer program for children 5-18 years of age, a Computer Literacy Class, and an after school program. I am careful not to scold the family for choosing language that…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…novels of Jane Austin are any indication, such bookish encounters were not centered on didactic performances for passive listeners, but were rather fully interactive engagements that enlarged any given book into a much wider social “text.” That is, as scholars have been reminding us for a very long time by now, private reading and the linear thinking that Carr so values as essential for deep, contemplative thought did not feature much in the lives…