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“Professor” David Barton On Immigration: God Drew Our Borders

By Julie Ingersoll

…or Not to Pray: a statistical look at what has happened since 39 millions students were ordered to stop praying in public schools. In charts and graphs, Barton’s statistical analysis of the “volume of prayers being offered” is overlaid with data on a number of social problems, to compare the “prayer years with the post prayer years.” The removal of prayer from public schools lowered the amount of prayer being offered to such a degree that its imp…

Reading the Qur’an: Wherefore Art Thou?

By Amina Wadud

…us studies myself and trying to “introduce” the Qur’an to English-speaking students, or to go in greater depth with a course focused just on the Qur’an in an Islamic university, I think I can better mediate between the presumption that everything is self-evident and the need to bridge the mystery with the pedagogical. So this is not a discussion of history, evolution, or even of significance of the Qur’an, but more like a conversation about ways t…

Shari’ah is Not the Law

By Amina Wadud

…y to make some sense of the basics. This is not like trying to teach it to students where problematizing is part of the lesson. This is really just to get ducks in a row, so to speak. I’ll start with history. When the Prophet Muhammad died, there was nothing known as shari’ah and no one saying that it must be established or we do not have Islam. It is true, however, that there were the two divine sources: the Qur’an and his sunnah or his establish…

Creationist Master’s Degree… Denied

By Lauri Lebo

…threw out ICR’s case. Sparks wrote, “Essentially, the panel reasoned much of the course content was outside the realm of science and lacked potential to help students understand the nature of science and the history and nature of the natural world.”…

Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Fired

By Lauri Lebo

…m displaying posters of the Ten Commandments and bible versus and teaching students in science class that evolution is a lie. After the parents of Zachary Dennis complained to the district about the burn on their son’s arm way back in December 2007, the district began an investigation, in which Freshwater’s religious proselytizing was revealed. Freshwater fought the district’s attempts to fire him. The burning incident also led to a civil court ca…

One in Eight Biology Teachers Creationists

By Lauri Lebo

…about evolution at all out of fear of offending religiously fundamentalist students and their families. From LiveScience: Only 28 percent of high school biology teachers followed the National Research Council and National Academy of Sciences recommendations on teaching evolution, which include citing evidence that evolution occurred and teaching evolution thematically, as a link between various biology topics. As one Michigan biology teacher infu…

RD Book: Class Conscious

By Lynne Gerber

…udiesis a very useful effort at formulating that language for scholars and students of religion. Class matters, McCloud argues, but not in the ways that earlier academics thought. In order to think about class productively, he points to four ideas about class that need to be dispensed with. While class is certainly a structural reality, he notes that it is not always a felt affinity; the very idea of “class consciousness” might not be as useful as…

Air Force Speaking Invitation to Member of “Lord’s Army” Sparks Outrage

By Lauri Lebo

…r mission of the United States Air Force Academy, they are totally anathema to the purportedly globally inclusive purpose of this National Prayer Luncheon. MMRF is demanding that the academy withdraw its invitation and find a speaker more inclusive of all students’ religious beliefs. In a news release, Weinstein said, “Egregiously sectarian statements like [those] from former Lt. McClary blatantly exclude not only non-Christians, but also the many…

Zen and the Art of the Sex Scandal

By Gary Gach

…that the Society’s former head, Eido Tai Shimano, not be allowed access to students—a strong penalty for a teacher. Once You Mention Sex, Everything Becomes Sex Like they say, it’s a long story. Here’s a quick backgrounder. The Zen Studies Society was established in 1956 to support D. T. Suzuki, one of the first Buddhist scholars to teach in the West. Ten years later, Zen monk Eido Shimano took charge and changed emphasis there from theory to prac…

Inside The King’s College

By Sarah Posner

…eemed to be ingrained into its very character,” from its “God, Money, Power” tagline to the hiring of D’Souza, which “seems to push the college’s focus ever more toward the fringes of conservatism, making it even less likely that King’s students will receive the kind of education that allows them to seriously consider a wide range of ideas.” As Fitzgerald recounts, a commenter at Patrol, a disgruntled TKC student, concluded, “Apparently, we’re sup…