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Madonna’s interest in Kabbalah has guaranteed regular coverage — if not always of Kabbalah itself, then at least of how it affects this celebrity’s life. The latest bulletins: Madonna has allowed a distance to develop with her longtime best friend, actress Debbi Mazar; and though Madonna will perform on Sundays in the U.K. during her worldwide Re-Invention tour, she’s declining to perform on Friday evenings, in observance of Shabbat.
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has revised Bishop Jon Bruno’s PowerPoint presentation, “The Anglican Communion: A Roomy House,” to reflect the uncertain nature of a remark credited to Richard Hooker (original slide at left).
During the church season of Easter, some modern minds naturally turn to a quixotic crusade: How to rid religions of all that is supernatural and embarrassing to moderns.
Hooray for Entertainment Weekly in publishing “Hooray for Holywood” in its April 16 edition. The feature is not yet available online — but even when it is, the content will be available only to EW subscribers or AOL customers.
Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner writes in the New Jersey Jewish News about the PCUSA’s vote on divestment from Israel:
Jimmy Breslin and the Rev. Lou Sheldon may have more in common than either man realizes — beginning with their rhetorical styles. Sheldon makes sweeping statements about gay activists, while Breslin uses a remark of doubtful merit to make sweeping statements about Sheldon (and about political and religious leaders seen in Sheldon’s presence).
Time and Newsweek devote stories this week to Prince, and both note in passing that his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness has dialed back his earlier obsessions with sex.
It’s difficult to decide who is more insufferable when Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine interviews former nun Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God and, most recently, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness.
