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Archbishop’s Theology is Wearing No Clothes

By Mary E. Hunt

…hat deserves an equally deeply-reasoned response. To claim otherwise is to buy into the smoke and mirrors that some religious professional employ to ply their trade. Fortunately, we live in a society where citizens like Mr. Dolan are entitled to their opinions, however spurious their claims may be. But not even Catholics are under any obligation to privilege such nonsense simply because he has an ecclesial title. “The True Meaning of Marriage” is…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…lly non-Muslim scholars who broke open the field. I remember the thrill of buying the book Islamic Homosexualities edited by Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe in 1996, when I was a graduate student at Duke University and had recently accepted Islam. It was the first book that addressed the topic, though admittedly it was from an anthropological perspective that showed great naiveté and even ignorance about Islam as a religious tradition. Still, it ex…

Goodbye to Amy Winehouse, Living Celebrity Dead

By Mathew Schmalz

…and desolate. Offerings at her shrine are a material currency in which we buy back some of that dark energy—an energy found in the freedom of contradiction. When I first lived as a student in India 25 years ago, I went to a temple dedicated to the Goddess Kali in Jaipur at which a special offering was presented. My Indian host family told me to not come home without the offering, sweatmeat, available in stalls near the temple. As I ascended the s…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…their psyches as inaccessible markers of meaning and status, than they are tickets to a Premier League match. A Spiritual War? This, at least, is the gist of much of the heated banter on the uprisings on the Facebook fan page of trip hop duo Massive Attack, where one fan drew something of a spiritual assessment from the film Fight Club: “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the m…

Huntsman, the End-of-Empire Conservative

By Sarah Posner

…didates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. What’s more, he seems not to buy the conservative, Gingrich-esque view of American exceptionalism, describing his hawkish critics to Dougherty this way: They clearly haven’t felt our diminished leverage in the international marketplace because of our weak core here at home. They clearly haven’t read the history about the end of empires where you have a diminution in values, you have a society that beco…

In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One
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By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ideas about how other people should use their bodies? Should we allow huge numbers of other people to do improper things with their bodies, especially when we might end up indirectly paying for it? I say no. This is why I hope you will join me in support of God’s Design For Walking. For there is a scourge of marathon-running in this country. How do I know that marathon-running is not something you should be doing with your body? I mean, it’s only,…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…es who use corporate banks and credit cards, take loans we can’t pay back, buy products from and invest in tax-evading multinational corporations, and vote for jerks who put special interests before the public interest. Which is not to say those in power do not have a greater responsibility to the public good. We ourselves have [plenty] to atone for. We have our own sins for which we are culpable. On the Facebook page, you write, “is fasting and b…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…anufacturers decide to start handing out free contraceptives, the money to buy them will have to come from somewhere. Where will it come from, since neither employers nor employees will be paying for these contraceptives? That leaves the insurers, whose revenues come from the premiums that subscribers pay them. It’s difficult to see how insurance companies would avoid using premiums to cover the costs of contraceptives. They could, perhaps, use pr…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…he wrong people—undercover feds. My hope would be that anyone who wants to buy an illegal rocket launcher falls for the “trap” of buying a disabled unit, complete with tracking device, from the feds. But The Almighty Black P Stone Nation is a book for gangbangers and gang idolizers, too. A helping of hagiography is mixed in with the history, just as polemic against law enforcement is peppered throughout. The authors, no doubt, have justifications…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…immolated in eastern Tibet. India has responded to the unrest by placing a number of Tibetan refugees under what they term “house arrest.” Below, Megan Sweas reports from India on the latest wave of protests. –Eds.] DELHI—Shibayan Raha had worried that this would happen. At a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, a 27-year-old Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran past the podium before police and other activists c…