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A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…s, Christians, Muslims and Jews have a lot in common. But I couldn’t quite buy into the attempt to portray medieval Jerusalem as a rich mixture of cultures on equal footing. As the title suggests, this is an inclusive exhibition, reflecting our present-day preoccupation with diversity. And just in case you missed the message, strategically placed screens play videos of interviews with a Muslim merchant, a rabbi and a Christian monk. Only a pair of…

Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation

By Donna Schaper

…Reformation also reimagined a rowdy and robust sense of grace. You didn’t buy your salvation—you received it by grace, through faith. You had a slogan: sola gratia. From God, you don’t get what you might deserve—you get what you don’t deserve and can’t possibly purchase. The Church, argued the reformers, had turned Christianity into a bunch of rules and regulations, rights and wrongs. And it had institutionalized the Holier Spirits. Like the Jesu…

Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…hat it reveals about what kinds of justice are getting traction and public buy-in. Alongside this work of popular engagement, it’s also valuable to convey the riches of religious reflection on racial justice to broad audiences. Here, I have in mind the Southern-born, black bard of Christian mysticism, Howard Thurman. In our Instagram age, Thurman’s legacy of letters and contemplative black mysticism is often reduced to decontextualized quotes on s…

New Poll: Americans Disagree with Hobby Lobby

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Americans are still divided about whether those couples should be able to buy a wedding cake from any baker they wish. According to the survey, 51% of respondents said that transgender people “should be allowed to use the public restrooms of the gender with which they currently identify.” Forty-nine percent of respondents said transgender people “should be required to use the public restrooms of the gender they were born into.” Though Pew laudabl…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…eed not only prohibitions against war weapons in our streets, but also gun-buy-back programs, and gun-destruction community parties. Yet more than these, we need new police practices that make the use of guns the absolute last resort. More than all of this, we need to declare a time of an actual gun fast. No more hunting, shooting competitions, gun sports, range shooting practice, gun buying, gun shows, etc., until we see a 50 percent reduction in…

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

By Peter Laarman

…59 freshman class that “the Lord forbids our using our education merely to buy our way into middle-class security.” Coffin and other antiwar religious activists of the time never could persuade a majority of upper-middle class students to take to the streets against the Vietnam madness, though they made a valiant effort—and they understood the ugly race and class dimension of American imperialism. Thinking about Coffin’s legacy, I had to ask mysel…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?, Part Two

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…mericans. At the same time, bigotry comes in many forms. It is possible to buy into racially-tinged narratives of global conflict, and to target specific groups of people, without embracing the kind of white supremacy characteristic of Duke. After a close reading of Harris’ writing, we ended up arriving at a somewhat mixed conclusion. We were very critical of Harris, but we were aware of the connotations of the phrase white supremacy: To be clear,…

Catholic Bishops Winning “Liberties,” Losing Humans

By Patricia Miller

…berty that the good prelates have cooked up for them? Are they refusing to buy gay cupcakes and taking birth control away from their employees before going to pray in Central Park? No, they just keep filling out their March Madness brackets. Only 25 percent even bother to attend Sunday mass, notes Dolan, “seem[ing] to prefer Starbucks and sporting events.” Maybe it’s not them, Cardinal. Maybe it’s you. Maybe the pews are empty and the Starbucks ar…

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,…

Are the Girls Scouts Evil? And What About Thin Mints?

By Patricia Miller

…Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. As to the big moral question here—can I buy Thin Mints?, the archbishop has treated the question with all the theological seriousness it deserves: Each person must act in accord with their conscience. It is also our duty to form our consciences and learn the issues. Carlson has disbanded the Catholic Committee on Girl Scouts and replaced it with a Catholic Committee for Girls Formation, which will soon, undoubted…