Sacred&Profane: Our Dirty, Lofty Election Season
Religion Dispatches′ intrepid editor-in-chief comments on the ritual of the election season…
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Stonewall of the “Nones”: The Revolution Won’t be Homogenized
What would “a tranny hustler,” peeking through a rip in the stocking of space-time, think of our world 40 years later? What will the next Consciousness Revolution look like?
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Take It Off, Or We’ll Make You: On Sarkozy’s Proposed Burqa Ban
When you step out in clothing that boldly states your womanhood, you are a free woman. You are no longer a slave to old rules and notions. Modernity is inherently free.
Read More“Future of Babylon” Project Preserves History to Some, Ushers in “End Times” to Others
An uptick in tourism could transform the ancient city of Babylon back into a major destination for tourists, which according to several conservative Christian evangelicals, could set the stage for the ‘last days’ of history.
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Misreading Neda and Judges 19: Death of Young Iranian Woman Is Not a Rallying Cry for War
Some, like Paul Wolfowitz, have criticized Obama for not responding to the Iranian election violence, symbolized by Neda, more aggressively.
Read MoreThe Qawwali-Gospel, a Cross-Cultural Musical Experiment
Attempts at the recent Muslim Voices festival to reinvent the qawwali, of having it cross-fertilize with other musics, made the concert seem so promising as a closing event.
Read MoreUpdated: New Riverside Pastor Steps Down; Where Does That Leave Progressive Christianity?
After several months of vocal opposition to Rev. Braxton’s compensation package, the Rhodes Scholar will not lead one of the nation’s premier progressive institutions.
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Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones
Back in 1980, a mysterious set of stones bearing a message for civilization in various languages appeared in Georgia. From Christian dispensationalist symbol of the New World Order to Native American “power-nexus” to the interpretations of Contemporary Pagans, UFO buffs, and New Agers, the Guidestones are a spiritual and political Rorschach test.
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Obama Threaded the Moral Needle of Latino Evangelicals in ’08
Obama won, in part, by flipping the vote of Latino evangelicals back from their support of Republicans in ’00 and ’04. This switch, argues Prof. Gastón Espinosa, is due to a combination of targeted and aggressive outreach to evangelicals, the candidate’s ability to talk about his faith, and a compromise on the abortion and gay rights issues.
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Respectability and Its Discontents: Missing the Louche, Loud, and Lovely World of Sexual Outlawry
In this meditation on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots an ordained minister, while eulogizing his own outlawry, notes that God’s goodness is evident in the way in which new and seriously maladjusted queer youth are still rising up to bring new energy and edge to the movement.
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