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Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…ligious practice, which draws on the tradition of sacred immanence. Mexico City’s rough and tumble Tepito neighborhood arguably boasts the most robust devotion to La Santa Muerte and its modern origins can perhaps be found there. The barrio has a reputation for being host to a large informal economy, where black-market goods from stereos to designer knock-offs can be purchased in open air markets. Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Tepito emerged in t…

The New God-Fearers (FKA “The Nones”) and Where to Find Them

By Carlos Wilton

…se these spiritual seekers didn’t feel comfortable anywhere else. “In each city he visited, the Apostle’s strategy was to seek out God-fearers wherever they happened to be. These half-committed, outside-looking-in seekers eventually formed the nucleus of the Christian church.” Among that crowd was Lydia, a “seller of purple.” Lydia was an entrepreneur in the new economy of that day: a merchant whose niche was marketing the costly purple cloth that…

Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…two Israelite military spies in her home during the siege of the Canaanite city of Jericho by the army of Joshua—and lied to Canaanite soldiers who were searching for the spies. For her service, she and her family were spared when Joshua sacked the city and massacred everyone in it. There are a variety of understandings of the meaning of Rahab’s acts—like just about any other biblical figure. But Rushdoony’s interpretation is foundational for the…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…etimes ask him, “Why do you have to do so much to convince everyone in the city that we deserve our own mosque?” “Muhammad listened to his neighbors,” my father would tell me, “So we must listen to our neighbors.” Fast forward decades later, another summer has now almost passed. Only this has been the “summer of Park 51” – an unrelenting media storm over an attempt to erect an Islamic prayer center a few blocks from Ground Zero. The controversy ha…

Sympathy for the Devils: I Was a Pastor to Trump Supporters

By Daniel Schultz

…and Puerto Rican migrants (whom they blamed for rising crime rates in the city), and from their new church, which was firebombed, and eventually sold to a Hispanic Catholic congregation. That was the way they told the story, anyway. I never found out exactly how much of this was factual and how much was an embroidered narrative of racial resentment, but they certainly believed it to be true. The true soul-killer, though, was the loss of their bel…

The Dangerous Fact About QAnon Believers That Reporters Fail to Grasp

By John Stoehr

…elevision. The reverse, however, is mostly false. A minority percentage of city residents understand country folk intimately, because they left country living for jobs, excitement, love—everything cities can offer. And they’ve done so in a historic wave. When FDR’s regime gave way to Reagan’s, cities really were terrible places. But “by the turn of the third millennium, cities had turned around, not just in the United States but also all over the…

Yes, Let’s Talk About Kermit Gosnell

By Sarah Posner

…omen came to Gosnell’s clinic, in spite of its location in Philadelphia, a city with several reputable abortion facilities. Among the saddest things I have read in the wake of this disaster is the account of a Philadelphia social worker, pointing out that the community health center which serves the same low-income neighborhood in which the Gosnell clinic was located is considered to be one of the city’s best facilities. But as a recipient of fede…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…ion in America (probably well over 600,000, or close to ten percent of the city), a number of uncomfortable questions came to the surface. In her debut novel, The Submission, journalist Amy Waldman manages to predict, prepare for, and parse, many of them. We open with a September 11 widow persuading her fellow committee members to vote for one of two remaining designs for a memorial garden, leaving the reader to wonder whether they side with her…

Crowdfunding Joplin Mosque Project Blows Past Its Goals

By Katie Toth

…ing whether to rebuild the mosque within city limits. “Locating within the city limits, as opposed to the current rural location without street lights or much traffic, would decrease the response time of police and firefighters, should another attack occur,” he says. “Also, a mosque inside the city would provide a greater chance of witnesses to an attack.” Over 2000 people have supported the mosque with donations, according to the indiegogo campai…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…Stadium (literally meaning “many people together in a small space”) in the city of Nelspruit cost $137 million to build. Yet many in the area go without clean water, toilets, or electricity. Only four games will be played there, a total of 6 hours of the beautiful game, and once those games finish no other professional team patrons the city. Disgusted, Richard Spoor, a lawyer who handled some of the litigious wrangling, said its sole use will be f…