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Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…so Jerusalem’s opportunity. It can have a role to play in this transition that may impact what most hope will be a democratic Egypt, and the Arab street is watching closely. Israel’s problem, even according to some of its supporters, is that it has never had a long-term plan in regard to the Palestinians, leading to actions that are largely reactive and myopic. Perhaps these events can convince Israel that it has to act and not simply react, for i…

Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

By Diane Winston

…ains of industry, men like J. Howard Pew and the DuPont brothers believed that free market capitalism and limited government were articles of religious faith, as central to their beliefs as the Virgin Birth and blood atonement. To change hearts and minds, Pew and others funded radio programs, newspaper columns, films and forums that penetrated large cities and small towns, working class neighborhoods and farming communities with the message that t…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hink same-sex marriage is going to cause a Holocaust, that’s ridiculous. “What I’m saying is that when you’ve got harmful ideologies there are consequences, and future generations will think how did this happen, why are children being taught that gender is fluid in schools? “When people don’t speak out and oppose harmful ideologies there are bad consequences.” He added: “I was making the point about people being silent when bad ideologies are give…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…nxious Main Street was stay tuned, we’ll get to you later. The reality is that what Kevin Phillips and others call the financialization of the US economy over two decades amounts to much more than an economic phenomenon. Our politics have also become thoroughly financialized—colonized by the ideas and values of the monied elite. Thus, theft or major malfeasance on the part of members of that same elite turn into mere “mistakes” or “excesses.” I ne…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…tes. “Have not People in former Ages, as well as now,” he asked, “alleged that the Free Masons in their Lodges raise the Devil in a Circle?” Dan Brown takes a welcome leap beyond this tradition of ignorance and malice, giving the Masons a fairly accurate and highly sympathetic treatment in The Lost Symbol. It may be that he instinctively sympathizes with the maligned and the misunderstood, or that he needs to maintain friendly relations with Mason…

Faith for Fuck-Ups? A New Book Explores a Broader Vision for Christianity

By Jason J. Stellman

…al). If grace perfects nature rather than overturning it, then it follows that whatever ideas we have about earthly fatherhood are consistent with, but stop far short of, the archetype of God’s heavenly fatherhood. If I wouldn’t waterboard my own kid for a trillion years because he didn’t honor me enough or forgot to brush his teeth before bed, then how much less will God behave in this way toward his own children? God is love, is what I’m saying….

Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…serter, and denier. Therefore they faced a reminder that they too were not free of the sin that leads to the cross, and were in need of conversion. We Are All Betrayer, Deserter, Denier If Heim is right about this, then Jones and Phelps and their respective congregations are symbolically enacting the very thing that the passion stories central to Christianity were intended to repudiate. Where they are called to see the crucified Christ in those wh…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…k surrounding them. The Cercle promoted something they called “the Idea.” What was that? Neither the Cercle Harmonique nor the spirits they communicated with formally defined “the Idea,” but references to the Idea permeate their séance records. The Idea was a reformulation of the French revolutionary cry for liberté, égalité, fraternité. The Idea meant egalitarianism, equality and brotherhood. It was the central idea that organized the spirit worl…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…well as to apartheid in South Africa.“ Clarkson told Religion Dispatches that that chance encounter was his “opening into the world of politics and clashing religious worldviews as I considered conscientious objection to the war in light of my Christian upbringing and Gandhi’s powerful call to conscience.“ Clarkson has written for Salon, Mother Jones, The Nation, Ms., The Christian Science Monitor, Knight Ridder News Service, Sojourners, and Chri…

‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?

By Frances Kissling

…h regard to the provision of a conscience clause for religious hospitals, that whatever the nuns in Baltimore who had cared for her mother wanted they would get. Nuns are especially popular today after the Vatican foolishly attacked them for caring more about the poor than about opposing gay rights and abortion. Catholic and non Catholic columnists alike praised them to the skies. The sisters, whose claim to oppressed persons status is that the Va…