...of the unsayable,” at least in the tradition I know best. It is a tradition in which wealth, even pleasure, and especially women’s wealth, women’s pleasure, fits awkwardly with emancipatory...
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A Secular Age
A story to tell
by Colin Jager...anthropological claim: details are where we live, because details are where history lives, and we are historical creatures. The question that remains, then, is how best to capture this sense...
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The Vatican and the “war on women religious”
by Sarah Shortall...Church, against which the Vatican’s criticism of nuns looks, at best, unfair and, at worst, downright hypocritical. Indeed, questions have even been raised about the record on sexual abuse of...
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Utopia and everyday life
by Charles Gelman...the roots of a radical ethic for social change can be found in the best parts of our everyday lives. This relates to the social role of religion. Religion has...
Christian Human Rights
Is secularism still Christian?
by Camille Robcis...the relationship between the two. I would add that from a methodological standpoint, Moyn’s work makes another important contribution: it exemplifies the best kind of intellectual history, one committed to...
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France wrestles with upcoming vote to ban burqa
by Aaron WeinsteinFrance, the country best-known for its public anti-burqa sentiment, is readying itself for a September vote on the controversial piece of legislation to ban the Islamic veil. A story put...
Is this all there is
Secularism’s two ends
by Vincent Lloyd
...Hauerwas, later named by Time America’s best theologian, would bring a distinct but related set of worries about secularism into mainstream theological education with his coauthored Resident Aliens in 1989,...
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“Does Egypt Need a Pharaoh?”
by Charles GelmanPolitical scientists Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz argue, in an article for Project Syndicate, that a democratic transition following the reportedly imminent resignation of Hosni Mubarak would be best served...
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Blaming Francis Schaeffer for George Tiller’s murder
by Daniel Vaca...right wing evangelicals made into a best seller. For instance Dr. James Dobson (of the Focus On the Family radio show) gave away over 100,000 copies. Read the rest of...
Religion and the 2008 election
Post-election roundups & more
by Jonathan VanAntwerpen...Wicker and Conrad Hackett consider how best to grasp the polling impact of “evangelicals,” and readers of Christianity Today and others react to D. Michael Lindsay’s post on evangelical leaders...