...to the categories of politics and religion, instead of dogmatic commitments to Eucharistic rites or Pentecostal eschatologies. But, with my admittedly disciplinarily focused eyes, Meyer’s is the universalism I best...
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Sacred disorder
by Charles Gelman...of his argument is perhaps best summed up in the following passage on Intelligent Design advocacy: IT HAS BECOME COMMON to speak of divine planning in terms of “intelligent design,”...
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
by James K. A. Smith...a level of technical, philosophical precision that I think is best pursued elsewhere.) Second, with respect to Wolterstorff’s (lack of) direct engagement with MacIntyre and Hauerwas: Wolterstorff contends that he...
Rethinking secularism
What’s the supreme question in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC?
by George C. Heider...not the place to rehearse the facts or the legal points at issue. The keys to the entire case, as best I can frame them, are whether or not the...
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The other ‘life’ issue
by Nicole Greenfield...the bishops have advocated for universal healthcare—in fact, for a single-payer system with a strong emphasis on covering the uninsured, the poor and immigrants. The best shot at reform is...
Rethinking secularism
Is there a secular body?
by Charles Hirschkind...reason that Talal Asad, in the “Introduction” to his Formations of the Secular, cautions us against approaching it directly, suggesting instead that “it is best pursued through its shadows.” In...
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Religion and art: friends or enemies?
by Nathan Schneider...display at a State University of New York museum. Also, in the Guardian’s Belief section, the editors are asking readers and columnists, “Does God have all the best art?“: On...
Is this all there is
(Tell me one thing) More than this
by Martin Kavka
...club-play success over a few reissues in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Today, the song is best known in the form of a remix from late 1996 that, in...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
After Bhutto
by John L. Esposito...of the U.S. in Pakistan as in Egypt) has at best been a fig leaf, both in terms of the manipulation of electoral politics and the role of the military....
Religion in Human Evolution
Back to his roots
by Matteo Bortolini...the best theorist he had ever had among his students. As he internalized these expectations as one of the keystones of his self-image as a top-achieving intellectual, Bellah devised for...