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Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…th brothers struggled with depression, but Richard had it worse. Richard’s books were more carefully written and reasoned; the Niebuhr family regarded Richard as the better theologian; and whenever Reinhold wrote a book, the reaction that he prized far above all others was that of his brother. There will be more Niebuhr revivals in years to come, because Reinhold Niebuhr is the icon of a perennial quandary: How should one hold together the things…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…g modern, even postmodern phenomena. Relatedly, even someone whom we might classify as a fundamentalist might embrace the values found in your Charter for Compassion. How might you respond? No, no, I entirely agree—and make it clear in the book—that fundamentalists make great use of modernity and that these are all essentially modern movements that could have taken root in no time other than our own. Fundamentalists may have retreated from some as…

Harry Potter Gone Bad: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

By Donna Freitas

…up under the surface of The Magicians (the latest novel from Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman) is the stuff of these same sincere elements—the kind many readers relish when looking to escape with a good book. On first glance, he offers us not only a world filled with magic, but a school for young magicians, the adventures of aspiring young sorcerers, magical creatures and spells, fantastic landscapes galore, and a parallel world called Fillo…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…o the triumph of humor over religious sanctimony. This is the thesis of my book, which details the steady progression of religious humor since Dante as it conquered one taboo after another until nothing sacred was left that couldn’t be poked fun at or mocked outright. People may think that Porta dos Fundos represent some kind of ultimate outrage or pinnacle of irreverence, but that’s far from the truth. One could argue that Mark Twain’s anti-God s…

American Jews: From Holocaust to New Age Hasidism?

By Martin Kavka

…es, and to put that theology into action. I find it helpful to present the book not as a summary of the progression of its chapters, but in terms of the steps of the book’s argument as a whole. First, Magid argues that any description of the contemporary world, and especially contemporary America, does not and cannot mesh with a description of normative forms of Judaism or Jewishness. The increasing cosmopolitanism and globalism of our world means…

Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America

By Andrew L. Seidel

…s the bottom line.” That is the essence of Christian Nationalism: our holy book and our religion is the law of the land, not the book or religion of non-white, non-Christians. Neither is true. In America, our godless Constitution, which separates state and church partly as a way to guarantee genuine religious liberty for all, is the law of the land—not a holy book. Christian Nationalism is a deliberate repudiation of this founding American princip…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…essful career as a lawyer to become a professor and theologian, wrote this book in the hope that it would help not only LGBT people, but anyone searching for a better way to think about these doctrines. He does that by defining seven new deadly sins and seven new graces, all seen through the lens of the life and teachings of a queer Christ. Cheng took time recently to talk with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about his new book, and his…

The Bible as Security Blanket, Blindfold, or Weapon

By Amy Benson Brown

…ge? The context Ostriker draws upon for these readings range from literary classics to pop culture—from Bob Alter to Bob Marley—and from biblical criticism and feminist theology to Midrash. But make no mistake, these are personal essays. She’s letting us in on where she is now in the conversation/quarrel/love song she’s been writing to God through nine volumes of poetry and four decades of literary commentary. And the ultimate purpose is to ignite…

Christianity Without the Cross

By Rosemary Ganley

…writing, laid out a fascinating thesis. It is also a stylish and readable book. “This is,” said Diarmuid O’Murchu, the Irish psychologist-priest-writer, and no slouch himself, “the best book of theology I have read in 20 years.” After finishing Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us in 2001, the two writers spent five years sniffing out evidence that the cruciform symbol, the central image of Christiani…

Christian Nationalist Bestseller Rooted in Volk, Homeland, and Patriarchy is ‘Blood Relation’ of a Certain 20th Century German Manifesto

By Bradley Onishi

…a political agenda aligned with Trumpism. However, the argument of Wolfe’s book should erase any notion that Christian nationalism is a benign force in the American public sphere. Despite its highbrow language and theological jargon, it’s abundantly clear that the book is a justification for the xenophobia, queerphobia, religious intolerance, White supremacy, and misogyny that have become the hallmarks of Christian Trumpism, and sadly, large swath…