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RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…on turns from death to birth, life, and love. He begins where Indiscretion left off, with our nature, and turns to our creations. The ones that mainly concern him are today’s most unsettling inventions: communications networks that transform our sense of time and place, as well as medical techniques that blur the lines between natural and artificial. He warns us away from thinkers on both the political right and left—Bush’s go-to bioethicist Leon…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…gone awry. Washington Examiner columnist Philip Klein complains that the “left” is “suddenly comfortable” with Holocaust analogies, as supporters of resettling Syrian refugees in the United States warn that we should not turn away people fleeing war, terrorism, and persecution, just as the U.S. turned away Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. The “left” consists, apparently, of Jewish groups that have stepped up to protect U.S. refugee resettlement…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ed to tell them these details. There is also no map. For those who process left-brain, a visual map showing the location of the hotel relative to the Haram mosque would have been really helpful. Instead it instructs us to find a particular door out of the Haram and then turn right. Our hotel is 300 meters from there. But we already knew this from their advertisements. If you look at the many, many photos of the haram mosque, which accommodates alm…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…when speaking to Democracy Now! on Monday.] Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, left, with Clinton Wright of Repairers of the Breach, who served as Dr. Robyn’s security escort. And the uniformed officers stayed behind their barricades during these violent confrontations? That’s right. They did not engage. From your perspective, who was inititating the violence and the beat-downs there? I was standing at 2nd St. and Water St., and I was with Rev. Traci…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…ing of Christianity, Christians have fought back. We now know that not all Evangelicals believe in the “Gospel of Gun.” Some care about helping the poor and protecting the environment. More American Jews are coming out to say that being pro-Jewish doesn’t automatically being pro-Israel, nor is all criticism of Israel anti-Semitic. Although the actions of Osama bin Laden were catalytic in organizing the silent majority to speak out against atrociti…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…elevant policies would be enforced. Likewise, I’ve come to know people who left The City Church for reasons of exclusion and are now a part of EastLake. Pastor Judah, you are a gifted communicator. I harbor no negative feelings for you. You strike me as a genuinely nice person. We have many mutual friends. It seems like you’re doing your best every single week to love people and to make a positive impact in our world. This letter is by no means me…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…first to include color in the form of an eye-catching orange bar down the left side of the page. With such covers, which included three others cardinals and two additional images of the pope in the magazine’s first fifteen years, Time put faces to the Catholic hierarchy as never before. Other publications of the day often featured cartoons of the “Roman menace” in the spirit of Thomas Nast’s infamous tooth-hatted bishops crawling like crocodiles…

Untethering Conscience From Religion: An Interview with Louisa Thomas

By Jeremy Kessler

…would have the sense that he sort of did still believe. Many people on the left today are adamant regarding church state separation, and even that religious language doesn’t belong anywhere in public debate. How did writing this book help you think about current debates about religion and politics? One thing that definitely became clear was that I wasn’t going to be able to tell this story unless I understood the brothers’ religious background. It…

Karma Chameleon: From Zen Practitioner to Episcopal Bishop

By Nick Street

…ster himself led that produced his name as the sole candidate for the post left vacant by the death of the diocese’s previous bishop, Rev. Jim Kelsey, in June 2007. Forrester’s election must be ratified within 120 days by a majority of bishops and diocesan standing committees in the Episcopal Church before he can officially assume his new role. Defenders of orthodoxy—both Episcopal and at large—have leaped through that window of opportunity hoping…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…inally able to talk and created a rough ad hoc iftar plan between what was left in my fridge and what he picked up (some fried chicken from a fast food place). I did mention that iftar is observed at the end of the fasting day, at maghrib, sunset. At no other time in the year is this minute so closely watched. Imagine: even in the busiest cities in the world, if they have majority Muslim populations, everything stops. My first time living in Cairo…