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Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…influence on Gingrich, Adelson has turned the Republican contest into a competition of extreme rhetoric, in which there is no room for compromise or diplomacy, and the only answer to any international problem is unmitigated toughness. No one wants to be outflanked by the right when it comes to foreign policy (no one, I should say, besides Ron Paul) and so Gingrich’s apparent parroting of Adelson’s hardline attitudes about Israel — and, I should ad…

High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…up seeing a lot of conflict between science and religion. That story of perpetual conflict was more something I learned at school. So it was refreshing to discover that there was more complexity, back-and-forth, cross-pollination in the history. I like surprises. You have this great phrase, you say that creationists are “one of the most recently evolved species” of Christian. What do you mean by this? Well the creationists have chosen to go back t…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…every meal. Good boy. More and more people see the divine in the canine as pet blessings grow in popularity. Reverend Al Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, warned Christians that, “The embrace of yoga is a symptom of our postmodern spiritual confusion.” Do you ever get chain letters or, even worse, chain emails… “forward this on to fifteen people and you’ll have good luck. A guy in Lisbon didn’t forward the email and…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…an Rockwell unironically. They still looked at “abstract” art and said “my pet could do that.” They listened to Richard Marx. This was especially true in America, where clichés ruled the political airwaves, as well as the radio dial, back when such a thing mattered. And it was especially true of religious people. Son of God, the latest cultural product aimed at the supposedly burgeoning Christian consumer public, embodies this mode of kitsch relig…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ilk solution. They run along the rope and the tourists grow silent as they pet the curious pachyderms—a kind of awe at the ordinary life of these animals. One of the calves makes a grab with her trunk at the television crew’s camera hovering over her, just barely missing. The crowd giggles. A caretaker in a bright green jacket advises us not to place our hands in the elephants’ mouth, because, he laughs, “elephants have teeth.” Another caretaker t…

Kosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories

By Shalom Goldman

…the front-page Wall St. Journal story tells you how to make sure that your pet’s food is certified kosher: These days Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Co. near Chicago sells dog and cat food that, in a manner of speaking, is kosher. They are deemed usable during the Passover holiday, though not kosher for human consumption, and have the endorsement of the venerable Chicago Rabbinical Council. Evanger’s website touts its products by showing a photo of a do…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…ut it, a “blind watchmaker.” Dawkins’ books have become bestsellers in the United States and Britain, and his vision of human evolution (or more precisely, the vision of it that he popularized from the work of such preeminent late-twentieth-century biologists as William Hamilton and E.O. Wilson) is shared by many evolutionary biologists today. Humans, like all living organisms, “are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve t…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…tters to be part of the holism they address and in which they live. In the United States the thinking of Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson make prime examples, while educator, chef and restauranteur Alice Waters includes the spiritual when describing her own discovery of good, healthy food and eating (while carefully distinguishing these sensual pleasures from mere hedonism), and biodynamic farmers, whose movement grew out of the explicitly spiritual…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…en told that Masdar City, with its narrow streets and shaded walks, is the pet project of an Arab sheik from the United Arab Emirates. He wants to do something he can really believe in. Maybe he has an older daughter who will want to make a contribution to peace in the Middle East? A few girls a little older than they are, from two or three oil-rich families, or maybe just from one rich family, can finance the project. The second cousin of the Jew…

Storytime with David Brooks: In Which the Liberals’ Favorite Conservative Gets Lost in a Lily-White History

By Peter Laarman

…he fact that MY people, not your people, are anointed to be God’s very own pet project. That cornerstone of exclusivity made, and continues to make, the Puritan enterprise in North America (and America’s enterprise in the world at large) a nightmare for the excluded. Does Brooks not know, for example, that the American Revolution was in large part an effort by the Southern colonists to preserve the institution of slavery against rising anti-slaver…