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Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gislative session. I attended two events at Equality Maryland’s offices in Baltimore. At the first, about a dozen volunteers spent the night making almost 300 phone calls and collecting pledges of volunteer support and contributions from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfait…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…cause, after all, you’re only going to get flattened by an accelerating Porsche Panamera, the family car of choice here, if God wants you to, and what better way to meet your maker than relaxed after some Lipton Yellow Label? But because I couldn’t snap a picture of this mythic hero, I offer you the next best thing: Something that likewise makes no sense, and makes you stop and scratch your head. Get filthy rich in Rising Asia, as Mohsin Hamid p…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…onstruction, from the ground up, of a brand-new gymnasium for Sacred Heart school, complete with brand new sports equipment, and full scholarships for 12 students for their six-year education. And while Fr. Harry Dunn, former pastor of Sacred Heart, told me that the gifts were made with no strings attached—and that he had personally told Blankenship neither he nor Massey Energy should expect the church’s endorsement or blessing—the coal baron did,…

“Digital Discipline”: Five Questions on #ReLent2016

By Anita Little

…dilution or regression? Everywhere I go, I see young people on their smartphones scrolling through Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. Some people may decry that as social regression, but I think it’s awesome. You have to meet people where they are, and they’re all on these online communities. It’s a phenomenal opportunity to share this radical Good News that we have. As much as my dad and other baby-boomers want to say that the internet is a fad,…

Our Need for Sports During the Pandemic is Far Deeper Than Just Entertainment

By Terry Shoemaker

…s offer a space where many willingly set aside political commitments and discover shared team commitments (see the continued popularity of the NFL despite the national anthem controversy). In the United States, with the highest recorded numbers of COVID-19 cases and where the president and some of his more ardent followers have politicized the pandemic, sports offer a necessary distraction. In my most recent research project, I discovered that som…

What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?

By Eric C. Miller

…a public flogging for domestic abuse, received a detailed write-up in the Baltimore Sun, and described the ordeal in racialized terms. “That was a d— hard punishment for a white man.” John Boots, the second white man sentenced, got his whipping in 1896, a full fourteen years after the law went on the books, though the state was forced to act only because his wife “came running into town, the blood flowing from the wounds in her face.” Boots would…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…e, not wanting to integrate themselves, and the various kinds of private discrimination that you were describing. If we believe that we have segregation that occurred by accident or without government involvement, then it’s easy to think that the only way to undo it is by some kind of informal unseen forces. But if we understand that segregation was created unconstitutionally by federal, state, and local government policy, rule, and regulation, th…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…d degrees they would later achieve. Bedi has a master of arts in political science, a law degree, and a PhD in social science. “While others girls my age were preparing to marry and putting together their dowries, my parents sent us to school and put tennis racquets in our hands,” said Bedi. Tennis instilled the value of fair play and self-discipline. While the list of Bedi’s tennis championships is quite long, she’s quick to point out that sister…

The Religious Implications of Nudity

By Steve A. Wiggins

…ance-enhancing drugs. The sense of freedom and fun (and free food, even if airline food) was exhilarating. The airport has now become a place of horror. Do they have full-body scanners? I wonder as I’m herded into a long, bovine line. Abattoir or boudoir? Why is this bothering me so much? Don’t Touch Me There Even cursory reflection reveals my embodiment issues are buried deep in my religious upbringing. I was a teenage fundamentalist. That remark…