Religion Dispatches
When Sessions invokes Romans 13 he’s reading the Bible through his white, patriarchal, confederate Christianity that marshaled the same argument using the same passage to defend slavery on the grounds that it was both biblical and lawful.
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Words are insufficient. Words—like horror, atrocity and domestic terrorism—are inadequate. Words—like sin, evil and blasphemy—are…
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As a fellow—make that sister—tenured black woman, I feel a particular kinship with Dr. Larycia…
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Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been ripped from their desks and chairs, notebooks and pencils,…
Read MoreThe crafters of biblical stories knew that people came in variety and accounted for that in their narratives. Not so Aronofsky.
Read MoreLegitimizing questions about Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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American Christians assume that what prophecy does is predict specific events to happen. And of course that’s the way the Book of Revelation has been read. They read it, as you say, as predicting this means this, or the beast is this. But prophesy, as we know, is a highly interpretative art, and the way this book lives and has lived for two thousand years is by interpretation and reinterpretation.
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