A shared faith was a crucial reason Mexican-Americans came to trust the Kennedys.
History
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rev. Graham’s 1967 visit to Catholic college recalled as historic event
A Baptist preacher had never before been invited to speak at a Catholic institution.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How the Buddha became a popular Christian saint
Two of medieval Europe’s most popular saints, Barlaam and Josaphat, were in fact Christianized versions of the Buddha.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rev. Billy Graham, known as ‘America’s Pastor,’ dies at 99
More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the U.S.
Posted inArchives, Politics & Society
The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and why it matters today.
From now on, Berlin will live with the memory of the wall for longer than it lived with the wall itself.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Malcolm X gets a Shakespearean treatment in a new play
But was the civil rights leader Brutus or Caesar?
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The (false) prophets of Facebook and Twitter are not exactly new
Medieval anti-clerical prophecy sounded a lot like modern social media.
Posted inArchives, Politics & Society
While Trump taunts North Korea, what can we learn from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
While a comparison with the Cuban Crisis does little to reassure us, it can offer some lessons on how our government avoided disaster in an even worse situation. We have been closer to the brink and still found a way to walk back.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
The danger in losing our shared sense of history
What we see and how we see it largely depends on where we are standing. A shared sense of history, of what was, or might’ve been, or could be again, is the indispensable touchstone of our collective judgement, for memory is the soul of conscience.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The strange racial politics of ‘Stranger Things’
Could Hawkins be a place haunted not just by the Upside Down, but by the ghosts of our country’s racist past?