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Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

By Diane Winston

…ploited for political or economic purposes but don’t discount the many true believers: Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows and Michele Bachmann are not using politics for religious ends or religion for economic ends, it’s one and the same. This time, they may not have succeeded. But there will be a next time and a next time until an alternate vision of society—one that remixes religion, politics and economics into a more communal and collective venture, stirs…

Noah, Cosmos Controversies Not About Biblical Literalism

By Dan Mathewson

…o Fosdick, as Christians had always done in the past when they encountered new truths. “The new knowledge and the old faith [have] to be blended in a new combination,” Fosdick argued in his famous 1922 sermon, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”—a new combination that for Fosdick demanded a Christianity without a virgin birth or literal second coming of Christ (among other things), which, he argued, were impossible to believe in, in this new scientif…

Paul the Pluralist: Jesus’ Number Two Was Not a Christian

By Pamela Eisenbaum

…l is deemed to be, and the more we read him within his own historical context, the less parochial his message becomes. Because Paul preached exclusively to Gentiles, we know his message was intended for specific people, namely, for the Gentiles, not for all human beings. This means Jesus is not the universal means to salvation. Jesus saves, but he only saves Gentiles. Paul wasn’t worried about Jews—they were taken care of because they had an etern…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…e work of French philosopher George Bataille, the man who sought mystical experience in sex and pain, who theorized the limits of consciousness in extreme states of the body, who dwelt on inner experience while romantizing the rupture of self that came with intoxication or orgasm or agony. Bataille, perhaps most importantly, imagined all of these concerns in relation with an ideal of community, seeing the limits of the subjective self as both prob…

I Owe, Therefore I Am: Why Struggling Against the Banks is a Holy Obligation

By Peter Laarman

…big bankers are now actively in the process of putting the rest of us into new and horrific double debt peonage. As Matt Taibbi explains in Rolling Stone, the Paulson-Geithner approach to “fixing” the credit crisis amounts to giving the banks direct access to the rest of our money, via taxes we will be paying as far as the eye can see, along with all of the money they have already been extracting via their ongoing predatory lending. It’s one thing…

DADT Repeal: The New “Religious Freedom” Issue

By Sarah Posner

…oldier would cause a believing Christian to choose between serving country or obeying God? As usual, set-up is that gay rights and religious liberty are incompatible. The former can’t happen without undermining the latter. As ADF president Alan Sears likes to say, “the homosexual agenda and religious freedom are on a collision course.” That from a man who believes that said “homosexual agenda” “probably includes the abolition of marriage, but also…

A New, Softer Prosperity Gospel Still Can’t Deliver On Its Promises of Health and Wealth

By Verdell A. Wright

…rson does not have more than $1,000 in a savings account, can’t afford an extra expense of $500 without using credit, and has experienced food and/or housing insecurity at some point in their life, it is apparent that theologies of prosperity are not impacting the material realities of those who believe them. Despite their ability to fit the sensibilities of the day, these theologies still legitimize the ills of society and place the blame for sys…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…today than those feckless Abolitionists did back then amounts to a low bar, please think again—and don’t flatter yourself. There are no shortcuts and no quick fixes to be had in meeting the challenge we face now. It’s going to be a revolution—a new social contract with new power arrangements—or nothing. Beware of any faith leader who tells you otherwise. God is once again “trampling out the vintage“: nothing less than the complete overthrow of whi…

The Visceral Vote: Obama-as-Sojourner v. McCain-as-Mythic-Hero

By Ira Chernus

…reap such huge political benefit from attacking cultural symbols of “the sixties.” Every new round brings new symbolic issues, however. In 2004, much media attention was focused on social issues like abortion and gay rights. In fact, though, more careful post-election studies found that the key to Bush’s success was the voters’ fear of terrorism. Yet for the many churchgoers who voted Republican because they were still seeking the spirituality of…

Obama in Copenhagen: It’s the Religion, Stupid

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…closed just one week into the Games. Downtown universities inherited some new facilities, though they are very expensive to maintain–a real problem at a time when most all state employees are being furloughed to the tune of 5% of their annual salaries. The Atlanta Braves inherited the Olympic stadium, renamed it “Turner Field,” and demolished the old Fulton County Stadium where Hank Aaron hit his record-setting home run. It’s very hard to measure…