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The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…other words, when certain Jews are trying to exercise power in a very new way. In Ultron, it’s straightforward hubris, mixed with ends-justify-the-means thinking, that seems to make things go astray, yes? HL: Yeah, Ultron as punishment for hubris, with Red Dude as reward for pure intention? One way to rationalize the difference? I’m not sure it’s the right one, but interesting food for thought. MHS: Exactly. Only after Tony Stark learns his lesso…

By the Way: Richard Land’s Non-Apology

By Randall Balmer

…in EthicsDaily.com alerted me to Land’s offensive comments (which, by the way, are even more chilling when you listen to the audio version). Because of Land’s long history of bullying and bald partisanship, I called on Land to do the honorable thing: apologize and tender his resignation. Others agreed. Land, apparently feeling the pressure, has issued what he characterized as an apology. “In reviewing these criticisms, I have learned some conside…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…oes it their way. The conservatives, on the other hand, take the Roman “my way or the highway” approach. Coincidentally, or perhaps not-so, the book was launched at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, on the very day (May 16, 2009) that LCWR opened its impressive exhibit of the history of US women’s religious communities at a museum in Cincinnati. “Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” is a carefully researc…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…of exploring “how we in the West came to be what we are, and to think the way that we do.” “To live in a Western country is,” therefore, “to live in a society still actually saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions… [that is] moored to its Christian past.” But Holland aims to tell more than just a local European story. Christianity has become “universal” and “continues to structure the way much of the world organizes itself.” Holland secon…

Cronus, Chronos, and Christ

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…often wreaking havoc on what they took. Which brings me, in a roundabout way, to Saturn (Cronus) and his relationship to Time (Chronos). Perhaps the best known version of the story of Cronus comes from Hesiod’s Theogony, his long poem about the coming to be of the old gods. Hesiod tells us (126ff) that Mother Earth and Father Sky bore a large number of children, among them Ocean, and Hyperion, and Memory, as well as the goddesses Theia and Rhea…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…s to take a step back. Jericho Marches are a call for violence in the same way calling a group the Amalekites is a call for violence in the same way that saying it’s a religious war is a call for violence in the same way that championing the imminent arrival of the Rapture is a cheer of support for that violence. All of this rhetoric comes from the comfort and safety of great distances, across the seas. The violence, the brutality—that’s happening…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…r—including police officers—keeps me from hate. But that temptation to hate and kill is profoundly present to us all at this moment. The demons tempt us to violence, but there has always been a way to resist that temptation. We must follow the way of a God who will not release us either to our demons or to our despair….

Are White Evangelicals as Concerned About Middle Eastern Christians as We’re Meant to Believe?

By John Stoehr

…e practice of their virtue. Dispensations are empty vessels, and that’s no way to build a religious community. Instead, corruption is a way to tear it down. I’m no historian but it seems to me, as someone who has strayed (badly but gladly) from my born-again Christian beginnings, that many of today’s believers have turned the Reformation on its head in a way. Whole lifetimes can pass by without having to think seriously about what a good person is…

Condoms and Common Sense

By Frances Kissling

…direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants. But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality. “…if you’re a woman, a man, or a transsexual. We’re at the same point.” The reference to “male prostitutes” threw people off for a day. Liber…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…have a greater moral obligation than any other group. This, to me, is one way that American society grants authority to religious groups in such a way that they don’t even have to work for it: we equate religiosity with morality. While I realize that Christian (and other religious) groups often openly tout their moral prowess, I tend to see this as a form of social advertising – a tactic to reinforce their authority – rather than a statement of a…