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RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…echoes this, arguing that women’s challenge is to influence their husbands spiritually, through “fearless tranquility and holiness and prayer.” Prayerful women, he writes, are using their God-ordained power over men, and this enables them to “exert far more power in this world than all political leaders put together.” For those unmoved by rote Christian platitudes about the power of prayer moving mountains, Piper offers practical information as we…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Many a Romantic artist has said the same: the self must clear out for the spirit of creativity to enter. Loss of self is perceived as fulfillment of self. Now enter the lover in love, long venerated by poets and rhapsodes of all stripes, starting with the lyrical Lesbian, Sappho herself. The lover who tries to leave reason in control, she warns, does not follow her god to the end. It is the very chaos of love, the swirl of love, that may link our…

President Receives Mixed Messages from Catholic Hierarchy

By Kate Childs Graham

…continue to find in their impressive religious and political heritage the spiritual values and ethical principles needed to co-operate in the building of a truly just and free society, marked by respect for the dignity, equality and rights of each of its members, especially the poor, the outcast and those who have no voice. At a time when so many of our brothers and sisters throughout the world yearn for liberation from the scourge of poverty, hu…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…40 years of Roman Catholic history with my feminist identity intact and my spirit unembittered without the companionship of her work. On a couple of occasions at women’s meetings on sexual and reproductive rights, we have met, even breakfasted. In a dry midwestern voice, she lets you know you are understood and appreciated. She is one of only a few Americans who truly get the Canadian picture. Last July, the Catholic University of San Diego rescin…

Boy Gets Boy, Saves Earth: A Gay Christian Writer’s Plan to Change the World

By Nick Street

…d than simply a royalty check and a green-light from Showtime. “I feel the Spirit with me if I’m really disciplined,” Moore said. “When I was writing the book, I tapped into that, and I’ve definitely felt Him with me as I write this Showtime series. I’ve learned to be very respectful and humble and let these characters tell their stories through me.” If Moore’s spiritual passion enlivens his storytelling, then the narrative forms that have captiva…

Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day

By Susan Henking

…lical Christian Rick Warren, that “Corinthians says that we are all of one spirit, and that ‘if one part suffers, every part suffers with it.’ But it also says, ‘if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.’ On this World AIDS day, it is the stories of overcoming, and not just illness, that the world needs to hear.” World AIDS Day is rife with interreligious services; and religious organizations are active internationally in both preventio…

Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…ero. In monasteries and convents and among the ranks of shamans, sages and spiritual warriors, gay men and women are disproportionately represented not only because those social locations have traditionally existed outside of hetero-normative institutions but also because undertaking the hero’s quest is their metabiological function. To put the matter differently: The birthing of new forms of culture at key junctures in human history is an express…

Christianity Without the Cross

By Rosemary Ganley

…ot the next. What the images said was that God blesses this world with the spirit.” I am easily persuaded that truth is to be found in art. In 2007, although living in the Northwest Territories of Canada, I went on a ten-day pilgrimage to Rome with feminists of faith led by Christine Schenk, CSJ of Future Church in Cleveland and taught by archeologist Dorothy Irvin. We too, as Brock and Parker, crept through the catacombs of Rome, discovering arou…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…tions of the real crucifixion—especially the Gnostic forms that imply the “spirit” of wisdom left Jesus as he hung limply on the cross. In this view, the body of Jesus was a mere virtual or illusory avatar—one that had once hosted an entity that in fact cannot experience pain and certainly cannot die “in-world.” This case suggests, albeit indirectly, that the ability to immerse deeply in an avatar depends on the extent that one’s religious worldvi…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…nections and theological applications.” Detweiler, co-director of the Reel Spirituality Institute and associate professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, “uses the IMDb, the wildly popular Internet Movie Database, to select today’s most influential contemporary films. Into the Dark dissects the theology of everyday life, exploring the work of the Spirit of God in creation and redemption to discuss “general revelation” throu…