Via the New York Times, a fine article by
John. F. Burns:

LONDON — The governing body of the Anglican Church in Britain voted on Monday to approve the appointment of women as bishops, a step that appeared to risk a schism in the church in its historic homeland as the Anglican church worldwide faces one […]

Humans, thinking, and consciousness all evolve — and our religion and politics must evolve with it. Time to examine the other side of the “political theology” debate and check in with Rousseau and The Savoyard Vicar.
Section III: The Inner Light.
My favorite quote from this section of Professor Lilla’s essay goes like this:
“There is much we […]

In this next section on the essay adapted from “The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” by Professor Mark Lilla of Columbia University, we examine the impulses that separated man from God, and secular politics from religion.
Section II: The Great Separation.
For those who study the evolution of human consciousness, this could as […]

“The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” by Professor Mark Lilla of Coilumbia University is to be published next month but the points he raises therein should have been in mainstream consciousness years ago.
The essay from yesterday’s New York Times begins with “The twilight of the idols has been postponed.” That in itself […]

Conservative Islamic family values, workplace ethics, and a fatwah only an academic could love.
After reading a story like today’s, I’m often left wondering if conservative religious leaders don’t get headaches from trying to find plausible work-arounds for the difficulties their repressive edicts cause. How can any society function when its moral leadership assumes that adult […]

Or, how in the Mauldin case, there’s actually more than enough blame to go around.
I read this article on the Joshua Mauldin case this morning and was dumbfounded. Not because this stuff doesn’t happen all the time — it does, unfortunately. Not because I didn’t believe any of it could happen — of course it […]

After sober consideration, M4L&L has pulled the church sign graphic that was posted in response to news of Rev. Jerry Falwell’s death.
In retrospect, I have to agree that my disgust with the man’s ideals ought to die with him. By posting that image as I did, I was pouring salt in some fairly raw wounds […]

With a farewell speech that contained searing attacks on capitalism, Marxism, birth control, sex, drugs and “lax morals,” Pope Benedict XVI has deeply underscored his church’s irrelevancy to Latin American Catholics and proved how out of touch he is with God’s movement in modern times.
By all accounts Joseph Ratzinger was and is a highly intelligent […]

You know how intense the clash of disparately evolved cultures and societies is getting when you can see it by simply loading a webpage.
As I loaded my [tag]Google[/tag] homepage this morning I first saw this: Cleric’s 2nd wife sparks polygamy debate. The article discusses the reaction in Indonesia of a [tag]televangelist[/tag]-style [tag]Islamic[/tag] cleric (yes […]

After wrestling with a small mountain of data over the holiday weekend, I realized that my background in socio-cultural studies is too slim to write the kind of article I’d like to write about the recent influence of the right wing’s plunge into Judeo-Christianity on American culture. I can look at the tortures of […]