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Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…saac Newton and, more soberly, Thomas Jefferson. Much of 19th-century Anglophone theology stood in awe of what zoology could teach about God’s creation. Until Darwin. Since The Origin of Species appeared in 1859, there’s been little use hoping for convergence. Europe has fallen for secular scientism, and the United States for semi-closeted creationism. The best one can expect is a habitable truce. So where is Dan Brown’s confidence coming from? De…

AIDS Progress is Paradoxical

By Susan Henking

…d the three HIV cases “still need to be verified” by additional tests. The sites failed to properly sterilize endoscopy equipment, placing some patients—6,387 who had colonoscopies at Murfreesboro; 3,341 who had colonoscopies at Miami; and 1,069 who were treated at the ear, nose, and throat clinic in Augusta—at risk of blood-borne infections. There have also been six positive tests for hepatitis B and 19 for hepatitis C at the three centers, the V…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…small green bunny on his shoulder in the book. But it’s on the book’s Web site if you want to see it, along with various other footnotes and paragraphs that my wise editors made me cut. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? There are so many. One of the biggest ones is that the Supreme Court has banished religion from public life by banning school prayer and the like. This is absolutely not true. Private individuals and or…

Will Answers in Genesis’ New ‘Ark Park’ Comply with Anti-Discrimination Laws?

By Julie Ingersoll

…nd a statement regarding creation will not be considered, so even the vast numbers of Christian believers who don’t understand their tradition in the narrow way of AiG are not deemed suitable. But potential discrimination in hiring goes beyond religious discrimination. As President and CEO, Answers in Genesis–USA & the Creation Museum, Ken Ham writes and lectures throughout the country on “the relevance and authority of the book of Genesis and how…

Why Did Vandals Try to Destroy a Holy Tree?

By Joseph Laycock

…essness of the destruction. Ironically, the social value ascribed to these sites made them ripe for sacrifice. Had the vandals been the only ones on Earth who knew about the Eye of the Needle, it may never have occurred to them to destroy it. Certainly, no sadistic impulse could be satisfied by destroying something that no one was able to appreciate. Instead these sites were the locus of communities, traditions, and histories stretching back centu…

Hawk Attack on Liberal Pro-Israel Conference

By Sarah Posner

…“Israel lobby’s” ongoing effectiveness in shaping the thinking of elected officials, even if it’s out of step with most American Jews. Goldfarb’s most recent calumny pits Armageddon-hunting pastor John Hagee and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel against J Street. For Goldfarb (whose former boss, McCain, was driven to reject Hagee’s endorsement because of, among other things, Hagee’s suggestions that the Holocaust was part of God’s plan for the Jews) Hag…

Judgment Day is Coming; Wear Clean Underwear

By Lauri Lebo

…ng, a San Francisco-area radio host and the owner of Family Radio. His web site, wecanknow.com, says that Oct. 21 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” Camping’s followers around the country have been promoting the big day by putting up billboards and driving vehicles with placards. But this is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment Day: On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ic killings of Nuban civilians. White body bags were also seen at a second site containing two apparent pits, where, according to the SSP report, a witness saw men “unloading dead bodies from the trucks and depositing them in the open pits” including some that appeared to be in bags that were ‘white’ and ‘plastic’; others were in light brown bags made of a different kind of material. Some bodies were not in any type of body bag or wrapping.” No on…

Fun with Facts, or, Yes Virginia, The UCC is still a Trinitarian Denomination

By Daniel Schultz

…week. You might not have known from the furious headlines on Christian websites proclaiming that the 1 million-member UCC will rebuff Christ and God by slashing a reference to God as “Heavenly Father.” Terry Mattingly at GetReligion.org headlined his piece, “Adios to God the Father?” Mattingly, founder of the media critique site, thumped mainstream media for failing to notice a news release from a critic of the proposed change. Without calling UC…

Jose Antonio Vargas’ Coming Out and the Power of Stories over Religious Remonstrances

By Sarah Posner

…derating, interjected, “White people have to talk to white people about white privilege.” More stories. Vargas told his today and launched his new site Define American. With his example, there will be more stories….