“The Supreme Love and Revolutionary Funk of Dr. Cornel West, Philosopher of the Blues.” Jeff Sharlet over at Killing the Buddha attempts to unravel the enigma that is Dr. Cornel West, who’s been called “perhaps the preeminent black intellectual of our generation.”
June 10, 2009
June 3, 2009
According to the troubling article “Bush, God, Iraq and Gog” by Clive Hamilton, “There can be little doubt now that President Bush’s reason for launching the war in Iraq was, for him, fundamentally religious. He was driven by his belief that the attack on Saddam’s Iraq was the fulfilment of a Biblical prophesy in which he had been chosen to serve as the instrument of the Lord.”
June 2, 2009
“2 Entrepreneurs Help a Monastery Thrive“. The Rule of St. Benedict enters the digital age: The NY Times covers a Cistercian abbey in Sparta, Wisconsin, that supports itself with money earned from the sale of ink and toner cartridges, barbecue and dog treats.
May 5, 2009
“Jesus Wept.” Andrew Sullivan comments on the recent Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life poll news that 54 percent of regular churchgoers approve the use of torture against suspected terrorists.
April 29, 2009
What would Jesus think about his license plate? The Florida senate, supported by Governor Charlie Crist , considers a bill to put an image of Jesus on auto tags.
April 21, 2009
“Inside the System.” Father Luis Barrios is currently serving a 60 day sentence for misdemeanor trespassing during a protest against the School of the Americas at Fort Benning military base in Georgia. His colleague David Brotherton writes that his treatment at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Manhattan has bordered on torture.
April 7, 2009
The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. What does this statistic explain about who we are now–and what, as a nation, we are about to become? Jon Meacham at NewsWeek discusses “The End of Christian America.”
April 3, 2009
“The New Atheist Movement is Destructive” writes Julian Baggini. “The antitheism of the four horsemen is for me a backwards step. It reinforces what I believe is a myth, that an atheist without a bishop to bash is like a fish without water.”
March 20, 2009
Andrew Sullivan argues that there’s a new religious power in America – atheism.
February 10, 2009
“Our real journey is interior.” Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and author of “The Seven Storey Mountain”, was a pretty cool dude.
