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Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…im to upend the traditional story of Christianity, he has become America’s most important pop philosopher and historian. In the earlier books, he hatched a version of the faith that spoke to many people in ways that churches no longer seem able to. Now, by turning to Freemasonry in The Lost Symbol, he exposes the deep stratum of mystical thinking that underlies modern rationalism. However naive the novel may be, it testifies to the myths that help…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…s and clearly racist and sexist pronouncements of US politicians. In the past month, however, Canadians who follow the news have had to look their own racism, sexism, and criminality straight in the eye. In the space of two weeks in February 2018, two juries acquitted white men accused of murdering young Indigenous people, raising charges of systemic injustice from Indigenous communities and their settler allies. In 2016, Colten Boushie, a 22-year…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…hose who use religion to justify discrimination against sexual minorities. Most of the 20-somethings in the crowd are participating in Soulforce’s Equality Ride, a semiannual event that shuttles queer young adults and their allies to conservative colleges and seminaries, where they try to engage students and administrators in dialogue around the issue of sexuality. Terry Kimbrow, president of Central Baptist College, is not in a talkative mood. A…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…y written for National Catholic Reporter, CNN, NPR and many other outlets, most of them operating independently of the Catholic church. Allen has also written several books about the Vatican, including a 2000 biography of then-cardinal Ratzinger that was seen by many as critical of the former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In spite of some readers holding the opinion that Allen’s work veers toward the liberal…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…nagogues as the locus for difficult conversations about American Judaism’s most contentious topic, few rabbis believe they are able to create a space where conversations can take place without participants’ fear of recrimination. Rabbis are “terrified” of talking about Israel, said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights-North America), which has 1800 affiliated rabbis….

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…, and instead unfurled the hidden flags of their own culture. Still others—mostly women—were stirred by the possibility of reshaping the Judaism that had always ignored their needs and their perceptions. Still others who already had deep knowledge of hidden Jewish wisdom, were stirred by the unexpected feeling that those riches could give new meaning to their lives. And I found seeds and sprouts of a fiery Judaism where the Burning Bush was still…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…e; state control in the prisons is just a façade. The prison gangs are the most powerful presence, but the church exerts a strong influence too. There were about 400 inmates in the gang camp inside the prison, and 40 to 50 in the church camp. The rest were neutral people who kept to themselves in their own cells. The gang leader told me, “People outside think we’re animals in here raping each other, but there’s order in here, and you’re welcome he…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…nscended many of those simple dichotomies, offering wisdom accessible to almo*]}*st anyone. He was born in Hall, Indiana, four years before the Great War, later moving to the “big” town of Martinsville, population 4,800. So Coach knew the rural life. In 1948 he moved to Los Angeles where he would live for the rest of his life. As a part of the great migration from the rural Midwest to the urban West, he could sympathize with both urban and rural conce…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…are housed in homo-social settings. Our group had more men than women, but most of the women were in some way attached to one or more of the men. This was comical because all though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…er of God’s appearances to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes were followed almo*]}*st immediately by Virgin sightings across Europe, which have since never ceased (for a good introduction to these phenomena, check out the website of the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute.) The proliferating apparitions followed an obvious pattern. The Virgin appeared to more women and children than men, to working class and peasant believers rather t…