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James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

…ect of both personal and corporate prayer. When he speaks to his mother by phone from Libya, she asks if he has felt the prayers coming from his home as well. He tells her that he has felt them and reports, “Maybe it was others’ prayers strengthening me, keeping me afloat.” This is precisely the kind of hope that prayer can inspire that should become central to the understanding of it for those of us who do not engage in prayer. Though the old aph…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…nity Jason Bruner, while not dismissing the well-documented involvement of American religious conservatives, examines a broader picture of tensions between the Anglican Church in Uganda and the Anglican Communion over sexuality issues, and the competition between the Anglican Church and growing Pentecostal churches. Bruner summarizes: While others have focused upon the American origins of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, it is essential that Ugan…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…ued until nightfall. They continued until counselors and nuns in habits outnumbered wild-eyed parents. Then some guy came over and asked for identifying information about their children—jewelry, tattoos, dental records. Two women went outside and threw up. A man who was shot while watching the premier of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado this July remembers that he was sitting in the fifth row of the theater. When the theater filled with s…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…anization for Marriage (NOM) urgently called on its supporters to get more phone calls into Senate offices. NOM is urging Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to use his power to keep marriage from coming to the floor for a vote. Meanwhile, Archbishop Timothy Dolan is getting increasingly shrill in his efforts to stop the shift toward equality. This week, on his official blog, he wrote: “Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in N…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…rough years of conversations, we made it, song by song, through the entire American Beauty album. Steve passed away in June of this year. That was 15 years after our “Ripple” conversation, and today, there are hundreds of Dead songs on my phone and dozens of live recordings in playlists, even a nod when I see a Deadhead sticker on a car. I am a relapsed Catholic, and thanks to my friend, I am also a repentant Deadhead. Dear Jesus, let me confess:…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…franchise has been its eerie habit of taking the barometer of its times (often the best of its times), and of pointing a way forward. It showed the first interracial kiss on American television, and it invented the flip-phone. I hope, for our sake, that Star Trek has finally gotten out of touch….

Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community

By Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, and Tamar Manasseh

…rying to explain our community’s legitimacy—or lack thereof—to the “wider” American and “mainstream” Jewish world. But this drama of American Jewish history is actually nothing new. Whether in the form of debating the Hebrew traditions of Olaudah Equiano, Mordecai Noah’s vision of a multi-racial Zionism or the relationship of Judaism to the non-White relatives of people like Judah Benjamin, David Yulee or Judah Touro, from the Colonial period to t…

Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today

By Kaya Oakes

…ot so much for the general public, but to translate things that are by non-Americans for American scholars and a public that’s not the same public as New York Times readers. This is something that struck and surprised me: how much translation there is in each of the sub-theological worlds of North America. Knowing and being able to read in one language says nothing of the real access to the idea of coming from that linguistic world. We know that t…

Christianity as American Horror Story in Joyce Carol Oates’ Newest Novel

By Spencer Dew

…mething closer to genre fiction—yet another gothic horror story. A Book of American Martyrs Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, February 2017 Religion, in Oates’s novel, is weird in the sense that H.P. Lovecraft’s tales are weird, or like Macbeth‘s “weird sisters” who prophesy doom. Religion, for Oates, appears here as a dark, intellectually inchoate force that motivates people with terror and toward violence, a source of fear but also of frightful strength….

Toward a More Inclusive Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…es. In many ways, it sets the stage for and goes beyond the open letter to American Muslims published by Reza Aslan and Hassan Minhaj here on RD. According to the ISPU report, there is a deep desire by American Muslims to return to a religious imagination that isn’t bounded by simple legal edicts, but which calls forth the best of a person through a Prophetic example. As a result, one can no longer see mosques operating in isolation from American…