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Romney Accuses Obama of Stifling Religious Liberty

By Sarah Posner

…up for so much stuff that violates my conscience, the government should probably pay me damages. Why should the bishops be exempt from the costs of living in a pluralistic society?. . . . The vast majority of Catholics long ago rejected the Vatican’s ban on contraception. Catholic women are as likely to use birth control as other women. What about their consciences? Or, for that matter, the consciences of Romney’s fellow Mormons: the LDS Church pe…

Richard Dawkins, New Agnostic

By Michael Schulson

…gious beliefs are shaped by more than intellectual free will and faith? Maybe, maybe not. But Chotiner is ready with some follow-ups. In regard to Dawkins’ tweet about Muslims winning fewer Nobel Prizes than the scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge: RD: That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally…

How Intelligent Design Advocates Helped Shape the Christian Right’s Texas Curriculum Standards

By Lauri Lebo

…outlines a proposed legal strategy to defend linking the two documents: Dunbar began the lecture by discussing a national day of thanksgiving that Gen. George Washington called for after the defeat of the British at Saratoga in 1777—showing, in her reckoning, a religious base in the thinking of the country’s founders. In developing a line of legal reasoning that the future lawyers in her class might use, she wove her way to two Supreme Court cases…

A Response to Hussein Rashid

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…As another example, when 86 Ahmadi Muslims were brutally massacred in twin bomb attacks in Lahore on May 28th, only one American Muslim leader offered condolences to the Community. More tellingly, Professor Rashid appears to blame American Muslim diversity for the failure of American Muslim organizations to speak out against extremism with the same fervor as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Nothing is stopping American Muslim organizations from tak…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…Washington and Robert E. Lee hard at prayer and limiting the government to bathtub size — and they’ll be dad-blasted if some uppity negro (I beg your pardon, an uppity secret Muslim) and a bunch of Commies are going to upset the apple cart. I shouldn’t have to remind people that not all Christians believe this, but I guess I do. Against the stifling immovability of the Lord of Order, Brueggemann posits a “religion of God’s freedom” engaged with “a…

Homeschooling and American Exceptionalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…Schoolhouse is made clear by its statement of faith: “We believe that the Bible is the ONLY inerrant Word of God. It is our authoritative “handbook” for Christian living . . . the ONLY book that is necessary for our faith. We believe that man is in rebellion against God because of Adam’s sin. Man’s very nature is evil and all are bound for hell, a place of eternal darkness and torment, unless the Father calls him. The Holy Scripture (the Bible or…

“Outlaw” Christian writer, Reynolds Price, 1933–2011

By Joanna Brooks

…wakening to the willful racial self-blinding of white Christianity, I also became aware of another blindness that was—if anything—even more inexplicable (racists did at least have, as a desperate warrant for their convictions, those passages of the New Testament that urge the subservience of slaves to their masters). Then in the South, and widely elsewhere, many churches effectively ignored the plight of the poor, as they go on doing today—as I st…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…to a van, as were other women. Six-month-pregnant Maimouna Alammar was grabbed and carted off. What Syria experienced that day was a scene of loving families—women, men, and children together—appealing for their imprisoned loved ones in front of the offices that were supposed to serve the public, getting clubbed by armed men. Many more were attacked than the eighteen women and fourteen men who were charged the next day. Even though the two most e…

The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan

By Rob Goodman

…ick Warren says this is a story about weight loss. The story is the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Daniel, and out of the wealth of details in this two-and-a-half-millennia-old book, Pastor Warren has plucked one in particular as the centerpiece of his church-sanctioned diet. Daniel, one of the four kidnapped Jewish youths, “resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine,” and chose to subsist on vegetables instead, ending up as healthy as an…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…sily in school, where both women and men lead businesses as well as diaper babies, and where the internet connects kids globally to fads, music, and social revolutions. Ecumenism attracts them because it fits their life experience. They don’t respect the sharply-defined “in” and “out” groups so prominent over the last 60 years, and often move more fluidly between groups than older Christians. Yes, they have been nurtured within a hyper-polarized n…