Religion Dispatches
Thanksgiving has been marshaled in the battle over what is the proper interpretation of the idea of America. With thousands of refugees looking for amnesty in that “last, best hope of earth,” will the better angels of our nature find room for them at the table?
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Personal research conducted among my lefty friends shows that for many liberals, reading David Brooks…
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May 1st 1628 was the second time that Thomas Morton had erected a Maypole at…
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Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there…
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Or, why we’re glad American culture settled on “Thanksgiving” over “Fasting and Humiliation.”
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In a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to…
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It’s a news story that contains the ingredients of a paperback thriller, the sort of…
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Throughout US history the perpetrators of religiously-inspired violence have usually been white Protestant men fearful of non-Protestant communities.
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Forty years ago, Indian militants, as they were then named, occupied the island of Alcatraz. In their memory, our writer reflects on both the bloody history of the first Thanksgiving, and the remarkable, enduring power of tribal tradition to create spiritual sustenance in the modern world.
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While the history of popularization is a history of regular folk learning about other regular revolutionizing folk and imitating them, comic book histories like The Wordy Shipmates do their part in ensuring that the next generation knows more about Beyoncé than Byzantium.
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