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A Letter to the Religious Left on the Victory of Obama

By Daniel Schultz

…pport wasn’t just wide, it was deep; he won the popular vote by 8,000,000 while 262 of his electoral votes came from states which he won by ten points or more. Yes, That One did pretty well this year, and according to many commentators, it’s in large part thanks to you, America’s progressive believers. So where are you going now? Disneyland? That probably depends on who you decide you are. The problem, as the University of Chicago’s Martin Marty p…

Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…e Constitution — for the purpose of promoting co-called Christian American History. The “plan” includes form letters which Tea Partiers are asked fill in and send on the prescribed dates. The three letters include an initial letter and follow-up letter to school board members and superintendents, as well as a letter to local media. In addition to informing officials and the media about the legal requirement that public schools teach about the Cons…

Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

By Peter Laarman

…long with its peculiar corollary: “Whatever can be known matters less than historic church teaching and church practice.” For example, they think it matters a great deal to be able to bracket the weirdly anachronistic and formulaic statements attributed to Jesus of Nazareth that were never spoken by the Galilean upstart but that were put into his mouth by early church types. They think it matters hugely to look at archeological evidence for what t…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions. Rather than learn from our history, this radical ideology and its adherents seek to revise it, deprive it of any splendor, and mark it as inherently sinister. They seek to squash any dissent from their orthodoxy. We must not give in to these tactics or consent to such a bleak view of our history. We must teach future generations about o…

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…ators of Trump’s stripe can’t always get away with it). 9. Bracing scholarship. This year gave us a further flowering of the important new scholarship that goes to the buried truth of White Male Violence Disorder and that also goes to the religious roots of same. I will mention just one new book that will shake the foundations for anyone who reads it: American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Ned and Constance Sublette. Bu…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…feeding him extremely powerful information seems to generate a devotion within him that might better be described as religious. Cancer, The Great Icon I can’t help but like Kubota as a character. Rich’s tale makes me want to visit this guy in his laboratory, take a walk along the beach where he searches for evidence of sea creature activity, watch him sing karaoke at an academic conference. And yet, something about Kubota’s story leaves me unsettl…

Invoking God’s Name Like a Bludgeon

By Lauri Lebo

…s to the many students of Saddleback College who have worked so hard and achieved so much. Historically at events such as these we also take the opportunity to offer a moment of thanksgiving to God — if He exists. And I’m not here to say that He does. That would be wrong for an elected official, I am told. No matter that America’s founders invoked the name of God, and encouraged and participated in religious ceremonies in government facilities. No…

The Most Popular Stories of 2008

By The Editors

…tred Laurie Patton When do seemingly manageable ideological differences within a functioning democracy become something more treacherous? God and Gays at the APA: A Flawed Debate Michelle Wolkomir Recent drama at the American Psychiatric Association reminds us that the arguments on both sides of the gay/ex-gay dispute fall short of the mark… Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II) José Cabezón The strongest Tibetan response to China…

Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done

By David Gushee

…moral agenda by elevating the anti-gay cause to the top of their public ethics, and this in a world afflicted by war, hunger, ecological disaster and all manner of social injustice. • Christians have alienated gays and lesbians and their families, friends, and sympathetic allies, driving many away from the love of Jesus Christ and contributing to the secularization of American culture. They have done a great deal to create hostility to the church…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…the halls of the Capitol hoping to find, and possibly kill, the nation’s third-highest-ranking Democrat. But this attack on the life of the Speaker of the House—that landed her husband in the hospital severely injured—was not the act of a “lone wolf,” no matter how many GOP politicians are trying to paint it that way. It happened in the context of a Republican Party that has, along with the broader American Right, peddled a plethora of conspiracy…