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Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…like New York.” At Pete’s Candy Store, the bar where Revolution holds its Sunday evening services, Bakker tries to build not just a solid community—through a deep commitment to fighting social injustices, for example—but an egalitarian one as well. He doesn’t want to command all of the attention, and he doesn’t want to be the hand-shaking, holier-than-thou pastor seen at many evangelical churches. It’s another method of the “don’t want to push Je…

Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong

By Julie Ingersoll

…anyone—even a full-time academic—can read. Many of them are available free online, as are the daily updates these organizations email their followers. In my work I explore the Reconstructionists’ worldview and trace its dissemination to activists who acknowledge its influence on their views (like Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips) to those who might not even realize the role of Rushdoony’s teachings in their education. To say that Reconst…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…uncil of America, says there are probably no more than two or three in the country. Perhaps unsurprisingly, beth din rabbis are often reluctant to speak about their work. Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union, says that a beth din that investigates sexual abuse is usually comprised of rabbis with some knowledge or experience of abuse cases. They may also enlist the services of a consultant, such as a men…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…n’t know whether they still do, because they’ve got a new pastor—but every Sunday when the offering was brought forward, they sang either “My Country Tis of Thee” or something like that. Dan: A patriotic hymn. Walter: During the offering. Dan: Wow. Walter: And it was done shamelessly. They didn’t even get it. Dan: Once you get into that habit, that’s a hard one to break. Walter: Oh, to break it is… I heard the story of this pastor that worked and…

Pastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur’an Day

By Lauri Lebo

…espond by reading it. McGrath writes of a Florida pastor who has set aside Sunday, Sept. 12 and is encouraging a mass reading: Presumably everyone has heard by now that a group of “Christians” in Florida is planning a Qur’an-burning event on the anniversary of 9/11. (Apparently they are also planning to burn the Talmud, which was news to me—will they be protesting the end of Rosh ha-Shanah?!). Stephen Prothero has called for moderate Christians to…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…d controversy: The Group explores the world of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition movement. Similarly, a Syrian serial, What Your Right Hand Possess (it sounds better in Arabic) has drawn furious criticism for allegedly distorting Islam. A Malaysian TV station has axed a commercial wishing Muslims a happy Eid al-Fitr because viewers complained the commercial was too Christmas-y. In France, halal food is going upscale. Christi…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…return to that potent image, of a warming planet tilting its northern pole sunward, at the end of this reflection. There may even be something natural-seeming, to us, in this ritual taking stock—of ourselves, and our world—in such a season, and the attraction to the ritual increases when the calendar tells us that the new year beginning will ring in a new decade, or century, or what have you. Since I try to introduce an historical perspective in…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…, and physical well-being. It is only fitting that Peter Christian Hall’s online novel American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence, should appear now, during this season for fear. The premise is simple: The narrator sells flu protection gear (masks, goggles, disinfectant) out of his Lower East Side apartment as a deadly H5N1 pandemic washes over the city, causing massive casualties and wreaking havoc to the social fabric. Better equipped and…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…ext day as teenagers primed for romantic entanglements—victims of what the online soap community affectionately calls SORAS, or “soap opera rapid aging syndrome.” Yet despite all the herky-jerky storylines and production choices, one essential appeal of a show like Days of Our Lives today is its connection with fan memory. The show encourages a nostalgia for past plotlines, as well as a nostalgia for the small town life that Salem would seem to re…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…l find balanced and sober reviews of these books in a variety of print and online sources. (Good examples are Marilynne Robinson’s review of The God Delusion in Harper’s, William C. Placher’s Christian Century review of Hitchens’ contribution. Stanley Fish’s blogs in the New York Times on atheism are interesting.) Today’s Atheists: Yesterday’s Angst Among the many things associated with the progress of public atheism, “newness” still stands out: n…