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CultureNovember 28, 2011

Occupy in Exile: Sacred Space is Everywhere

By Donna Schaper

People love to stay immune from the connections between the sacred and the profane, holy space and “regular” space, tented space and the well-appointed space of a mansion. They try to tell us that politics and religion never meet. Or that money is “dirty” and therefore can get away with its meanness. Deliverance from these false dichotomies is our greatest need as a country. Money is holy and just and good when used for holy and just and good purposes. It is not “dirty” and therefore the property of those naughty boys of Wall Street.

Candace Chellew-HodgeNovember 28, 2011

NOM Claims Victimhood for the Holidays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

An antidote to Maggie Gallagher’s advice on dealing with relatives.

Election 2012, Sarah PosnerNovember 23, 2011

Iowa Republicans Grade Newt’s “Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

Gingrich’s Christian Right training.

Sarah PosnerNovember 23, 2011

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

Democrats press White House against siding with bishops.

Election 2012, Sarah PosnerNovember 21, 2011

Gingrich, Frontrunner, Touts Personhood in 14th Amendment

By Sarah Posner

Lowlights from Thanksgiving Family Forum.

Sarah PosnerSeptember 8, 2011

Few Religion Questions at Debate

By Sarah Posner

Brian Williams and John Harris apparently don’t heed Bill Keller’s advice.

Politics/LawAugust 1, 2011

Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion

By Warren Throckmorton

Texas Governor Rick Perry says of his August 6 “call to prayer for a nation in crisis” that we need to call on Jesus because “some problems are beyond our power to solve.” Here, John Adams is resurrected to provide guidance.

Guest BloggersMay 5, 2011

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

These days, when ever you say you are Muslim by choice, you get people asking about your conversion.

Guest BloggersMay 5, 2011

The Kaaba: Center of the Universe

By Amina Wadud

I like the interpretation of the word sacred as “set apart.”

Politics/LawJanuary 11, 2011

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?