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Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…parents (Francis and Edith Schaeffer who founded the ministry of L’Abri in Switzerland) went through. We became members of ever “purer” churches through one “separation” after another, until the “True Church” more or less boiled down to just our family! In The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, French philosopher André Comte-Sponville tries to present a “humanitarian foundation” for the life of unbelief. Comte-Sponville says that his “way of bei…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…manitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland provided RD with a brief, reporting that there has been “serious aerial bombardment” by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) inside Kadugli town, and that “SAF is distributing guns to non Nuba tribes (Arabs) in the town.” “Nuba people are being arrested from every point now,” he continued. “SAF intelligence are spread to capture every Nuba that tries to flee outside…

Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…en create hard times.” In the trailer to Carlson’s propaganda flick, which promotes racist anxiety about falling (White) birth rates caused by low sperm count in men who’ve grown too weak to procreate, the narrator’s voice rumbles “and so the cycle begins again.” The spiritual tone is no coincidence as I pointed out in a previous piece for Religion Dispatches: “[…] the video describes a form of traditionalism which Steve Bannon and Putin confidant…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…. Schaeffer, the lederhosen-clad leader of the L’Abri Christian commune in Switzerland, became an intellectual icon for many young evangelicals. In books, speeches, and documentary series, he ranged over the course of Western history, dealing with philosophy, art, and theology. In style, Schaeffer appeared a counter-cultural alternative to the stuffy anti-intellectualism of other evangelical leaders. But in substance, Schaeffer offered the fundame…

Another Important Defection From the Russian Patriarchate Looms — The Fate of Orthodoxy in the West Hangs in the Balance

By Katherine Kelaidis

…raine, been stripped of his professorship at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, though St. Vlad’s has not returned the $250,000 it received from an anonymous donor to establish The Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus’ Endowment for Biblical Studies, right around the time of Metropolitan Hilarion’s lecture last year. Which brings us back to St. Sergius. When the seminary was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate from Constantinople, the…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…Steiner was a man who ranged over nations and continents, having taught in Switzerland, Austria, America and Britain, holding positions at those famous universities in the Cambridge on either side of the Atlantic. His readings, interpretations, and analyses were recorded in millions of words, both in academic study and The New Yorker, for which he wrote book reviews. His vision was so singular, so idiosyncratic, that Steiner is, to some extent, cu…

Beyond Radical: Mary Daly, Feminist Theologian, Changed Worlds

By Susan Henking

…ncing (and becoming) themSelves. Denied tenure (eventually overturned) and promotion to full professor, and forced into retirement, the longtime Boston College professor’s career spanned world transformations of Roman Catholicism, higher education, and American culture’s treatment of women. Beginning with her degrees from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where she was the first woman to receive a theological degree, through her witnessin…

We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…ss at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, Stott—with characteristic humility—demolished the decades-old shibboleth that evangelicals should concern themselves only with evangelism and not with social amelioration. “Here then are two instructions, ‘love your neighbor’ and ‘go and make disciples,’” Stott said, referring to the words of Jesus: “What is the relation between the two? Some of us behave as if…

Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

By Sarah Posner

…EU,” or cantons in Israel and the West Bank, such as the member states of Switzerland. Michaeli, 48, was first elected to the Knesset in 2013. When she made the transition from journalism to politics, she described her new calling as “the space in which there is power to create a reality, to change reality, to have an influence.” In a way, Michaeli invites comparison to Barack Obama: a writer and activist who saw an opening to make good on the pr…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…nist Yehudi Menuhin, whose patronage, enabled him to teach yoga in London, Switzerland, the United States, and Paris. Before Iyengar and other entrepreneurial yogis popularized it, yoga had moved from the counterculture of Indian ascetic renouncers, to the counterculture of turn-of-the-century American practitioners of tantra, to the counterculture of Transcendentalism and metaphysical religion, to the counterculture of proponents of physical cu…