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“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…ion, and return to a world where it’s possible to live out what he calls “true Paleo.” Such a world wouldn’t just be better for human carnivores. Considering humanity’s impact on the environment, Eaton argues, it would also be better for the planet. This is Paleo eschatology, essentially—a vision of the world’s final destination, rendered in the language of an idyllic past. Eaton’s vision did not go over especially well with the other participants…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…concern prevailed. The brethren expressed considerable unease about a destructive bias in the news concerning Islam and deemed it imperative that the Mormon faithful be sensitive to Muslims and properly educated as to their beliefs. These aspects of the Mormon Leaks videos resonate with my own grassroots experience of the faith as an earnest community that seeks to be of service, and especially to be kind. While this may seem to clash with positi…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…es that represented the relative size of these different extremist groups. Reading your book, though, it struck me that that graph—as attractive as it is to me—probably wouldn’t change a lot of people’s minds if they’re Islamophobic. I don’t want to say that the hierarchy of information and affect is so intractable that new information, new ideas, new encounters can’t reshape your affects. And in a lot of ways, I think what we’re seeing right now…

Teilhard’s Legacy Can’t Be Reduced to Racism: A Response to John Slattery

By Joshua Canoza

…of his legacy is a message we sorely need: recognition of love’s transformative power and our responsibility to build a more unified world. Read John Slattery’s response here….

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…d hope. Their understanding of the gospel includes everyone—insiders, outsiders, the strong and the downtrodden—and that truly is good news….

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…to bury them. That’s the English-language edition of Turkey’s top-selling newspaper; the story is big news in Turkish, too. It means something different to people here. Today, while we fly to Sarajevo, Istanbul’s Taksim Meydanı—think Cairo’s Tahrir Square—will see the gathering of over 8,000 pairs of shoes in a memorial honoring each person who died at Srebrenica. Even the country’s Prime Minister has sent a pair in. The connections between Turke…

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…onnection between the material and spiritual universe, in which the single word ru’akh means wind AND breath AND spirit, has been lost in the spiritualizing afterlife of the Bible. Crumb’s illustrations do not merely restore the physical dimension suppressed by theologizing abstraction, at their best they convey that there are no differences between these realms, as there is none between—in one of the more charged corollaries of the distinction be…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…a administration’s stance on Israel-Palestine. Mostly what you hear in the news are words like “betrayal” of America’s friend Israel. But scratch beneath the surface — not even very far — of Israel’s “friends” Hagee and Beck, and you’ll find conspiracy theories about what making peace with the Palestinians means. Peace treaties are negotiated by the Antichrist, who will attempt to annihilate Israel; Christ will return, “bringing the armies of heav…

Pope Benedict’s Blind Spot on Holocaust

By Kevin P Spicer

…Secret Archives? Earlier in the interview, Benedict admits that he “cannot read all the newspapers and meet with an unlimited number of people. But there are, I believe, few people who have as many meetings as I do. Most important of all to me are my meetings with the bishops from all over the world.” It’s doubtful that the bishops today or in the past have provided the Pope with extensive insight on the historical record of Pius XII. Benedict doe…

The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight

By David Walker

…that Woody Allen’s film is “based on a story that’s almost too good to be true”—that attention to Allen’s true historical referents only complicates things for the better. For the magician referenced by Colin Firth’s “Stanley Crawford” is not Harry Houdini—or, not Houdini only—but (also) Chung Ling Soo, née Billy Robinson. And Robinson is far more interesting than this representation of him, especially on the subject of spiritualism. By way of rev…