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In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…ice commitment grew, Merton was unflinching in critiquing his earliest and best-known work, The Seven Storey Mountain, for being so focused on the importance of contemplation as to be acquiescent in relation to social injustice. But Raboteau is at his very best in evoking Howard Thurman’s under-appreciated greatness: his distinctive and powerful nature-based mysticism, his prescience in respect to the spiritual cost of environmental degradation, h…

Making Sex Costly… In More Ways Than One

By Daniel Schultz

…e deal either way, Goldstein reports. As federal bureaucrats mull over the best policy, interest groups from both sides of the question will do their best to lobby them, which, as Goldstein points out, is a much more difficult proposition than twisting the arms of elected officials. But it’s difficult not to agree with Amanda Marcotte on this one: In a common sense world, there would be no controversy over including contraception in the slate of p…

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

By Peter Laarman

…000. Earlier this month the Pentagon crowed that it had just completed its best recruiting year in three and a half decades. The announcement made no secret of the fact that a devastatingly bad job market is just terrific news for military recruiters waving hefty signing bonuses. The question of conscience: How do we feel about taking advantage of the economic vulnerability of the majority of American youth in order to make them still more vulnera…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…tly, how we fit into that puzzle. But, as Darwin clearly understood at the time of publication, Origin of Species would also challenge religious notions, not only of a 6,000-year-old world and a literal acceptance of Genesis, but about ideas of human exceptionalism. Even though Darwin never raised the issue of human evolution in Origin (that would come 12 years later in his Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex), the underlying point was…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…new identity separate from that of their mother country. It’s around this time that men like Cotton Mather began to refer to white settlers as “Americans,” a designation which other colonial powers such as the Spanish and French, and indeed English settlers in the South, reserved exclusively for the Indians. For a long time there was an ambivalence about the Puritans. Indeed their own intellectual descendants—the New England transcendentalists an…

Confronting the Rise in Conspiracy Thinking … With Wisdom Literature

By Daniel Schultz

…use, last, not everything is under our control. Walter Brueggemann says it best: “In spite of our best planning, there is an inscrutable mystery about our experience which we cannot master or manipulate.” That includes the mystery of suffering, as Job discovered. Adherents of conspiracy theories and other kinds of foolishness often ascribe far too much power and control to the leading figures of their narratives. It’s a primitive way of thinking:…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…tax, just something that makes it simpler on families,” he said. “Money is best in the hands of families, and they know how best to spend it on for their children.” “Helping out the poor, that’s certainly something that the Bible tells you to do, but it doesn’t tell you to turn to the tax collectors to help the poor. It’s more to turn to yourselves to help the poor… We don’t believe it’s the role of the federal government to find an answer, a one-…

Islamophobia and Racism: Civil Rights at the Breaking Point

By Erik Love

…he-top. Most agreed that it was. How do you feel about the cover? It’s the best part of the book, and aside from the author’s name at the bottom, I had nothing at all to do with it! Seriously, though, I think the cover is amazing. I have seen people’s eyes pop when they see it for the first time. I am deeply grateful to Adam B. Bohannon and the design team at NYU Press. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Deepa Iyer…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…nstances of sharing of food and resources. When I was there for the second time, for a few days this week, donations of food were rolling in heavily, firewood was delivered, and for the 9am orientation session inducting novices in the basics of the camp’s principles (indigenous leadership, no drugs, no violence, no unauthorized actions, no property damage) the group of newcomers was so large that for the first time since the establishment of the c…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…and Ricks’s own aggressive marketing, Hippie Boy ended up on the New York Times Best Seller list for e-book nonfiction in 2012 and was subsequently acquired by Penguin, which released the book under its Berkley imprint earlier this year. I spoke to Ricks recently about the way religion functions in her memoir and how readers respond to her depiction of it. Hippie Boy has been used in high school curricula for troubled youth. How do they respond t…