Category Archives: culture

‘Honor’ Killings

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: The Daily Telegraph’s Cristina Odone is rightly appalled by the murder of Shafilea Ahmed: Shafilea Ahmed’s parents have been found guilty of her murder. The beautiful 17-year-old Cheshire schoolgirl was killed by her own mother and … Continue reading →

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Balkanization Watch

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the New York Post: Brooklyn has lost its right to bare arms. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners are lashing out at customers at dozens of stores in Williamsburg, trying to ban sleeveless tops and plunging necklines from their aisles. It’s … Continue reading →

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When Leaps of Faith Go Awry

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Via the Guardian: During a four-day gathering in California entitled Unleash the Power Within, the famed lifestyle guru [Tony Robbins] encouraged participants to take a leap of faith and test their luck on the red-hot surface. … Continue reading →

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The Limitlessness of Self-Importance

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Plus a little victimhood by proxy… A Pagan Soccer Mom writes: Friday, September 21 has been declared Covered in Light International Day. This event has been started by the group Covered in Light, a group of Pagan/Polytheist women who choose … Continue reading →

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Bewitched

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Guernica, another reminder of the permanence of superstition, the reinvention of the past (the Goddess?) and the magpie “spirituality” of the West: Photographer Katarzyna Majak shoots her subjects in vivid color, posing each one as a healer, a goddess, … Continue reading →

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Against the Hotel/Porn Axis

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Mail: A Christian scholar and a Muslim leader have teamed up to ask hotel chain[s] to stop offering pay-per-view porn. Robert P. George, Princeton University professor and former chairman of the Christian group the National Organization for … Continue reading →

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The Placenta of the Earth has been Ruptured!

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

From the Baccalaureate address at Stanford University by Joan Chittister, the Benedictine Catholic sister, author and (to quote the God’s Politics blog) “social justice stalwart”: The ozone layer, the placenta of the earth, has been ruptured. The polar ice cap … Continue reading →

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Putting away childish things

Posted on July 3, 2012 by David Hume

CPAC’s boy wonder swings left: “I think it was naive,” Krohn now says of the speech. “It’s a 13-year-old kid saying stuff that he had heard for a long time.… I live in Georgia. We’re inundated with conservative talk in … Continue reading →

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Not Necessarily Woo-Woo?

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Sam Harris goes on a spiritquest: In writing my next book, I will have to confront the animosity that many people feel for the term “spiritual.” Whenever I use the word—as in referring to meditation as a “spiritual practice”—I inevitably … Continue reading →

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You Say Tomato

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Lebanon News: A Salafist group called the Popular Egyptian Islamic Association has come under fire after sending out a warning on Facebook urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food. The … Continue reading →

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