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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

By Benjamin E. Park

…oil—compared Trump to “Captain Moroni,” a prominent military figure in the Book of Mormon, he was merely placing a Mormon spin on an evangelical trope: the strong man willing and anxious to do battle. The kind of warrior who never concedes defeat, no matter the electoral results. A central tenet throughout the book is Romney “reckoning” with his own complicity with these developments. It is important to note, however, just which aspects he regrets…

Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

By Elizabeth Drescher

…mmon Prayer and subsequent revisions. The Sarum Rite is likewise echoed in Book of Divine Worship, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the 1928 Episcopal prayer book that St. Luke’s, like the seven other “Anglican use” parishes in the US Catholic Church, will take up. A Liturgical Line in the Sands of Time Opposition to the transition from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer to a much more thoroughly modernized 1979 revision was the warm-up fight for tradit…

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

…nd Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin Oxford University Press June 2016 In their new book, Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife, John Martin Fischer and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin criticize this very rhetoric. Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin both worked on the Immortality Project, a multi-million dollar collaborative research project. Their resulting book advocates for a scientific approach to near-death experiences, which they argue can…

Controversial Feminist Theologian Speaks at Nuns’ Final Assembly Without Vatican Oversight

By Patricia Miller

…e went on to say that Cardinal Timothy Dolan told her that the reason her “book was singled out was because of its influence” and speculated that the hierarchy is now on a kind of autopilot that causes it to reject “works of theology that think in new terms about burning issues.” Johnson said this “institutionalized negativity sheds some light” on how criticism of her book and the LCWR are related: For the doctrinal investigation of LCWR gives evi…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…y” in the Literal Heart of Jesus) speaking of infinities in not-so-endless numbered days. We may all want to be noticed by the universe. This is why we yelp into our virtualsuperaddressee of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We are all writing our own eulogies and those of our friends, day by day, good words and bad words and sublime and despairing logics (and the Kardashians, alas) all spun together. And it is here that we address the dead in plain…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…arketing, Hippie Boy ended up on the New York Times Best Seller list for e-book nonfiction in 2012 and was subsequently acquired by Penguin, which released the book under its Berkley imprint earlier this year. I spoke to Ricks recently about the way religion functions in her memoir and how readers respond to her depiction of it. Hippie Boy has been used in high school curricula for troubled youth. How do they respond to the religious aspects of th…

Revisiting Hagar, The Woman Who Named God

By Charlotte Gordon

…but I am a great admirer of Jack Miles’ God: A Biography. What’s your next book? I am moving forward almost 4,000 years. My next book is set in late 18th century and early 19th century England. It is the story of the famous mother and daughter pair, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. These two women were ridiculed, ostracized, and humiliated because of their revolutionary ideals and controversial lifestyles. Both had children out of wedlock. Bo…

Discovery Institute’s Bill Dembski Recants

By Lauri Lebo

…The young-earth old-earth debate, however, is only about 20 percent of the book. Most of it will be of interest to Christians of either stripe and even to theistic evolutionists.” So, his point is that even though one fifth of the book is devoted to the evidence against a literal interpretation of the Bible, fundamentalist Christians will still find it interesting. He also speculated in his book that the Great Flood was likely regional, rather tha…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…lso written on hunger and HIV as twinned issues in, for example, your 2010 book Names, Not Just Numbers: Facing Global Aids and World Hunger. I have to admit I love the title and its humane thrust. What do you see as the core reasons these issues are related? I already touched on this in response to an earlier question, when I sought to demonstrate the link between hunger and HIV. Let me expand my comments a bit. People who are HIV positive and wh…

Marxism, the Opium of the Professoriate?

By Theo Hobson

…in the face of the new atheism—though he is not a Christian. In his latest book, Why Marx was Right, he is advocating the creed he has always signed up to, Marxism. But he fails to convince that he really believes it. The book is structured around ten conventional objections to Marxism: that it has lost its relevance, that it is violent, that it overvalues economics, that it is impossibly perfectionist, that it neglects identity politics, and so o…