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Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve For Criticizing Capitalism

By Peter Laarman

…well be because Protestantism, and Anglo-American Protestantism in particular, eventually found it possible to ignore the plain teaching of Jesus and the prophets and ultimately to sanctify private greed. How this happened is a tale for another time. Suffice it to say for now that Protestantism’s accommodation of capitalism, even its role in forming modern capitalist ideology, stands as a peculiar outlier within the overall range of Christian tea…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…ent mysteries.” Who, though, are these “ancients”? Masonic lore has always laid claim to secrets from the misty past, but there is confusion as to whether they came from ancient Egypt, Judea, Persia, Greece, or even from the Druids. It doesn’t really matter—the ancient mysteries have always served the same purpose in the Masons’ cherished myth that modern science and human ingenuity will recover the lost wisdom of the ancients. In this way, the fu…

Who’s to Blame for BP?

By David True

…o have been caused in part by the lack of tough independent government regulation. Such regulation might have required that a relief well be dug, as is the case in Canada. Such added “burdens” now appear to be sensible safeguards, given the catastrophic threat posed by the ongoing spill. And who will ensure that BP actually cleans up its mess? The federal government, of course. In coordination with many partners, it is the ultimate guarantor that…

Discrimination on the Taxpayer’s Dime? The Fight To Curtail the Overreach of RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…it will do if not granted an exemption through the regulatory process. Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a proponent of a robust reading of RFRA, said via email that the new sex discrimination rules under the Executive Order are “about regulating the religious charity’s employment practices as a condition of eligibility for government contracts,” and could present a RFRA claim. But Daniel Mach, director of the Amer…

Cruz Brings GOP Nomination into the Toilet

By Patricia Miller

…n of LGBT people as a way to maintain rules about gender and sexuality was largely unquestioned. As R.R. Reno charges in First Things, these rules about “gender roles and other foundational categories” were what “ordinary people use to orient themselves and make sense out of their lives,” but now the “transgender revolution” is dismantling these rules as part of an effort to “efface the social authority of the male-female difference.” But this dis…

The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…he theme of alienation is expressed in the song’s focus on flight—from the law, from society, even from friends. And yet we are drawn to identification with an outlaw so alienated from the rest of the world, he believes the Devil is his only friend. In my ministry as an Anglican deacon, leading ministries that offer food, clothing and, most important of all, fellowship to homeless folks living on the streets of Vancouver’s West Side, I have encoun…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…sing to marry gay couples at a for-profit wedding chapel would probably violate the law, but he’s been hesitant about it. The strongest statement he made was when he said he thought, “in theory,” that turning away a same-sex couple would be a violation, that “public accommodation” would likely legally include for-profit wedding chapels, if same-sex marriages were legal. The Knapps are not waiting to see if that is true. The lawsuit is preemptive….

Burning Man in the Age of Rick Perry: Revelation, Pluralism, and Moral Imperative

By Jay Michaelson

…Apollo” (a portion of which is quoted above) relates a similar kind of secular revelation. Rilke, remember, had written a number of more intellectual, more idea-oriented poems, but he grew tired of their disembodied conceptualizations. He wanted to write like Rodin sculpted: materially, physically. “Archaic Torso” has only a whiff of metaphysics in it. The last, sudden, surprising line—“you must change your life”—emerges from the aesthetic encount…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…ode: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission to Washington, DC.” Sikahema’s full essay appears here….

Young Imam Reality Show, Debating Secularism, and More

By Michael J. Altman

…angelical Christian. Some of them just used to be. Malaysia is abuzz about the new hit reality series Young Imam. The winner of the show gets a scholarship, a job at a Kuala Lampur mosque, and a free trip to Mecca. On American TV, Fox’s comedy Glee will be adding a Christian character….