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Democracy

The Question About Religion Someone Should Have Asked Amy Coney Barrett

This nomination brings a long-cherished Christian political project to fruition

October 15, 2020 • by Rose Thomas Bannister

I was taught at church, at school, and at home that America is a Christian nation. Judge Barrett has advocated against abortion rights, and she has two adopted children. I too was an adopted child, and in my unofficial career as a child preacher, I once sermonized that God had rescued ...

The Question About Religion Someone Should Have Asked Amy Coney Barrett

Public Health

Tense Times with Protesters in a Brooklyn Hot Zone

As New Yorkers brace for a second surge, Orthodox communities that resist public health directives, and the NYPD, lead the way

October 8, 2020 • by Mitchell Abidor

----- On the morning of October 7, I discovered that Marine Park, the neighborhood in deepest Brooklyn where I live, is in the red zone of neighborhoods experiencing alarming increases in the number of positive COVID-19 tests. While the rest of New York state has a positive test rate of 1.2%, the ...

Tense Times with Protesters in a Brooklyn Hot Zone

Public Health

A Spiritual Month in the Cloud

Virtual Seder, makeshift matzoh, and finding joy amidst grief

May 1, 2020 • by Carol Edelstein

The Cloud this April hums with virtual Seders, virtual Easters, virtual gatherings for the breaking of the Ramadan fast. Jews world over subtract from their full glass of wine the ritual drops signifying the ten plagues suffered by the Egyptians when they would not release us from servitude. Dom: water becomes blood Tzfardeyah: frogs overrun ...

Religion

The Christian and the Cosmos

The Puritan’s Grand Tour

June 3, 2018 • by Sara Georgini

Horace Bushnell needed a vacation. On the first day of July 1845, the Hartford, Conn., clergyman boarded the British packet-ship Victoria and set off for a salaried year in Europe. Weary from preaching trips to New York City, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and Ohio, along with the publication of a prolific number of tracts, ...

Religion

The Binding of Isaac – Roundtable

October 23, 2013 • by Omri Boehm

The Binding of Isaac, Akedat Yitzhak, continues to serve as a background for discussions of religion, politics, art and philosophy. This concise Biblical narrative, only 19 verses in length, has managed to set a model for thinking about obedience and sacrifice, secularism and politics, art and philosophy—and more.

In the recording ...

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The Binding of Isaac – Roundtable

October 22, 2013 • by Omri Boehm

The Binding of Isaac, Akedat Yitzhak, continues to serve as a background for discussions of religion, politics, art and philosophy. This concise Biblical narrative, only 19 verses in length, has managed to set a model for thinking about obedience and sacrifice, secularism and politics, art and philosophy—and more.

In this recording, ...