Tag: stories
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Obama in Brooklyn
I’ve got a new piece out today on Religion Dispatches, which I did after soldiering for Obama in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. The white racism I saw there made me want to see Obama’s candidacy from the other side of the tracks, so I went to the wonderful Baptist church next to my apartment…
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The Olympic War and the End Times
There was a time when the Olympics meant a cessation of hostilities. A glimpse of the eschaton—as William Stringfellow would have put it—when our desires to dominate over each other get translated into harmless athleticism. This year, not so. The start of the Olympics (which China made sure would happen on the auspicious day of…