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The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

By Murali Balaji

…at’s been embedded into our laws and public policies. And that’s what this book has really been about for me, is highlighting that which is there and making the invisible structures visible. That’s a big big part of this book. So it’s absolutely an evolution and I think that we’ve got to see the majorities in this country taking a good hard look at their own communities and all of us seeing how whiteness and Christianity has been embedded into his…

A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture

By Seth Dowland

…nthropologist Sophie Bjork-James, who recounts this story in her sharp new book, The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family, the participants were uniformly white and well-off. But these self-described literalists immediately—almost instinctively—disregarded the literal meaning of this passage. Jesus wasn’t “condemning money or wealth,” the group agreed, just warning his followers not to put anything before their relatio…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ith policymakers, government officials, academics and service members, the book shows the cruel and unaffordable costs of the current gay ban,” according to the book’s Web site. See here for Frank’s friendly visit last week with John Stewart on The Daily Show. ++++++++++ RD Tidbits Coral Ridge Ministries’ New Pastor: In mid-March, the members of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (founded by the late D. James Kennedy) elected the Rev. Tullian Tchivid…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…in the river, the typography: all of these elements masterfully evoke the book’s title. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Do As I Lay Dying and The Transit of Venus count? If it’s histories we’re talking about, then anything by John Demos and almost anything by Edmund Morgan, Carlo Ginzburg, and Lyndal Roper. What’s your next book? It’s a story. Or really a series of linked stories. Each is a microhistory of a ki…

A Nazi, a Jewish Prisoner, and a “Magic” Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong

By Julia Seymour

…s who do not know a single Jew. Furthermore, there is hardly a significant number of religious or even semi-secular Jews in the public eye in films, books, and television shows. We are being edited out, one conversion narrative, one Holocaust denial, one romantic Nazi, one anti-Semitic slur at a time. What it means to live as a Jew in modern America is to have complex feelings about history, about G-d, about Israel, and about one’s own practice. I…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…ountry this is: that it inflicts violence for good reasons.” You wrote the book twenty years into the War on Terror. What has changed—socially, politically, economically, narratively—since you wrote the book? Most people seem to think that the War on Terror is over—Biden said this during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that the war is over.[7] They don’t understand that the War on Terror is much bigger than a visible, active [military] prese…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…huge growth since the 1970s—but which, Silliman tells us at the end of his book, are largely disappearing. Evangelical bookstores, for Silliman, constitute a “discourse community” alongside other “hubs of evangelical conversation” such as magazines, conferences, camps, seminaries and Bible colleges—elements that helped bring evangelical identity into being in the middle of the twentieth century, and are part of the larger alternative information e…

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

By Nathan Schneider

…creationist movement led by Harun Yahya was forcibly removed from the microphone. With his eye on the secularism that has engulfed Europe, Pope Benedict hopes that the roads of science can lead back to Rome. The Vatican might agree with Dan Brown in this respect more than it would like to admit. By allying with Templeton, the Church has begun (or, rather, continued) to embrace what Brown’s zealous priest-villain fears most of all: “spiritually-bas…

Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ing project what most of us think of as a somewhat old-fashioned spiritual classic. As the L.A. Times put it, it’s “for meditative types.” But she’s far from the first celebrity to become taken with the small book of verse on major life topics, from love to parenting, in its 90+ year history. Let’s start with Elvis. His Memphis girlfriend, June, received a copy for her high-school graduation in 1956, before regifting it to Elvis when he seemed sad…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…be confused by the word “disinformation.” The publisher is Disinformation Books, which publishes various kinds of edgy content, and their use of the term is tongue-in-cheek. We assure you that our book includes no disinformation. LW: Transcendence has been the province of religion, historically — the whole promising-of-immortality thing. What about the idea that transhumanism, the hope for tech-assisted transcendence of the human, is a whole lot…