The Prince of This World: Adam Kotsko and Patrick Blanchfield in Conversation
Adam Kotsko discusses his book The Prince of This World with The Revealer‘s Patrick Blanchfield Continue Reading →
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In the News: Bernie, Bagels, Buddahs, and more!
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
Daily Links: "We Should All Get To Do What We Want To" Edition
This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.
Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption. Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.
In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this: “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.” It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at. They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil. Geesh. What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it. On them. Regardless of what they believe.
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Daily Links: “We Should All Get To Do What We Want To” Edition
This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.
Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption. Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.
In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this: “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.” It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at. They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil. Geesh. What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it. On them. Regardless of what they believe.
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Daily Links: Pressing Questions Edition
Where is Jesus’ foreskin? Listen to David Farley discuss An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town on NPR’s Rick Steve Show.
Does Daddy Know Best? Ann Pellegrini on the nature of recent attempts to further limit women’s privacy and reproductive choice.
Are imagination and science really at war? An excerpt from Lawrence Lipking’s “Facts and Dreams” at The New Republic:
To some extent the so-called conflict seems bogus. A benevolent reading of Blake’s proverb [What is now proved was once, only imagined” from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell] might reduce it to common sense, or to a maxim that any scientist might follow in applying for a grant to test an idea. No idea, no funding; no imagined Higgs boson, no CERN. In this respect the hypothetical construct that drives attempts to prove or disprove it is not the opposite of science but its prime mover. Imagination and proof couple together as tightly as mind and body, or as Blake’s visions and the books that he makes with his hands. Great scientists are visionaries, too.
Can Romney break the Hoover Curse?
Is Obama the Devil? Ok, ok. Is he anti-religion? Social conservative Steve Chapman writes at Reason, that Obama hasn’t been all that bad for faith-based organizations, critiques that he’s anti-religious freedom be damned.
Can a woman be feminist and pro-life?
How much money does the state of Indiana give to “family values” organization Indiana Family Institute each year? Andy Kopsa does the accounting at Nuvo.
What’s so funny about the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia’s recent Fatwa? Paul Mutter tracks journalist Hamza Kashgari’s extradition for tweeting about Muhammad.
What happens when a Catholic hospital merges with a non-denominational one?
What is informed consent? Governor Bob McDonnell, who opposes Virginia’s mandate that all women seeking an abortion be given a sonogram (often requiring an invasive procedure), still loses points for allowing that such information is “informed consent.” McDonnell said, “Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state.” Sure enough. But don’t we think pregnant women know they’re pregnant? How much information must patients be given? How can the state determine when a patient really understands the procedure they face? How can a doctor? These questions are asked and answered all the time. Check out Thaddeus Pope’s recent notes on a “futile care” case in Canada. Continue Reading →
Immoral Halloween Temptations
Amy Levin: Last week, rushing through the Atlantic-Pacific terminal in Brooklyn, I passed my usual underground subway Jesus cheerleader, warning passersby about anything from the apocalypse to the dangers of evolution. Normally I take their pamphlets – I figure if you study religion, you might as well look twice when it’s standing right in front of you. This time I regretfully ran past in my hurried state, but I had just enough time to glance at their sign which read: “The Truth About Halloween.” I presumed they weren’t warning New Yorkers about the dangers of poisonous candy or child predators, and instead evoking a warning about Satan’s Birthday. And while I happen to like birthdays, there’s still a part of me that wants to know “the truth.”
The Devil's Night
Remember Chick Tracts? Here’s a classic, dug out from the files by The Sensuous Curmudgeon.
The Devil’s Night
Remember Chick Tracts? Here’s a classic, dug out from the files by The Sensuous Curmudgeon.
What's in a Name?
“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at a Revealer reading in Ann Arbor, Michigan, though, seemed to have only one Continue Reading →
What’s in a Name?
“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at a Revealer reading in Ann Arbor, Michigan, though, seemed to have only one Continue Reading →