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The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…e. Haber, who also writes criticism and journalism, is the co-founder of e-book publisher Dutch Kills Press, which published Uggs for Gaza in March. RD spoke with him to learn more about the questions of ethnicity posed by the collection and what it means to be Jewish in America today. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. This collection, in many ways, is about the American male Jewish experience. Is it essentially a mem…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…artificial contraception, and how it helped their marriage. Oh yeah. That book. I’d not lately given the Torodes much thought, but if you’d asked me about the book, I might have said something pointed like “I’m very glad that they found something that worked so well for them.” Turns out, though, it didn’t work out so well for them. And I was sad to hear it. Truly. The book she and Mr. Torode wrote two years into their marriage is quite short and…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…ack,” says Walker-Barnes, who is in the process of getting released from a book contract with an evangelical publisher. “I was working on a book that was marketed toward evangelicals and I’m no longer doing that because I think it’s a waste of time. I don’t think they’re ready. I’d rather work with folks who are ready.” “Like it was all for nothing” These forms of divestment come after a four-decade-long evangelical initiative many call “racial re…

Forget Debates and Dialogue about LGBT Justice, the Religious Right isn’t Listening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n Baptist homes, they don’t understand that God is on their side, and this book is trying to say that. This is a valuable book of history. You outline a secret summit in 1994 at the Glen Eyrie conference center in Colorado Springs, Colorado where 55 fundamentalist Christians gathered to discuss the consequences of the “militant homosexual agenda.” What happened there? I compare it to the Nazis creating a solution for the Jews. These guys literally…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…spoke through a donkey,” (referring to the story of Balaam in the biblical book of Numbers.) “He’s speaking through Doug Mastriano right now.” Also, PBS station WHYY’s investigation, published on September 1st, revealed that Mastriano’s campaign manager, Vishal Jetnarayan, “describes himself, and is described by others, as a prophet. He says he speaks with God directly and gives advice on how others can do so.” The knowledge and vocabulary These t…

An American and a Muslim: Reading Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

By Sarah Eltantawi

…Tone-deaf statements like this one are found intermittently throughout the book, and are perhaps its major weakness. And it’s this narrative that contributes to the impression that Abdul-Rauf is attempting to set himself up as a “good Muslim,” in contrast to other Muslims. While it may not be intentional on his part, it is presented as such by his supporters. Rauf’s discussion of the roots of violence, on the other hand, strikes a different, more…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ry, another German study—this time by a Lutheran theologian—wrote a little book with an odd title. The translation renders Friedrich Christian Lesser’s book as Insecto-theology: Or A Demonstration Of The Being And Perfections Of God, From A Consideration Of The Structure And Economy Of Insects. Insecto-theology. What word and imagination. The book sits as a note in the annals of natural theology, and revels for hundreds of pages in the intricacies…

LDS Church Responds to South Park Mormon Musical

By Joanna Brooks

…ealities of mass human suffering, collide with the limits of their insular Book-of-Mormon-Belt worldview. Reviewers are reporting that despite the shock value of the show’s obscenity-laden musical centerpiece, The Book of Mormon musical is actually sweet on Mormons, depicting us—for all of our unique beliefs and, well, cultural corniness—not as caricatures but as good-natured human beings who really just want to help. “It will be fascinating to se…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…mad.” The refusal of the publisher to go ahead with the publication of the book, which also involved a contract for a second book, has raised charges of censorship, of caving in to radical Islam, and echoes of the controversy about Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. Just this week the Telegraph reported that the UK publisher of the book is hiding and under police protection after being targeted by extremists. “Why,” many are asking, “can’t we write…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…nce. It has helped shape the debate in powerful ways. Hameed writes of the book, There are very few good books out there that tackle the issue of Islam and science in a rational way. Often we find apologetic writings that grossly misunderstand science and end up doing a disservice to both Islam and science. Then we have books that address the issues of science and religion, but without a deeper understanding of religion. It is very rare (and I’m q…