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No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills That Nobody’s Talking About

By Andrew L. Seidel

…y Stroop being one exception). They don’t just want to ban these topics or books, they want to destroy public schools altogether. I explore this in my new book, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom, due out in September. Under our constitution, public schools must remain secular. To more mature students, they can teach about religion, but not preach religion as objective truth. Public schools may educate, but no…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…and women who are the evangelists. Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin’s 2005 book So Much More and Jasmine Baucham’s 2010 book Joyfully at Home are responsible for introducing many girls and young women to the movement. Baucham’s endorsement of the SAHD Movement is merely an extension of his support for patriarchy. He believes families should revolve around the father, and thus that each family member needs to be oriented towards, and serving, the f…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…isagreed (rumors abounded) failed to speak publicly. In Benson’s view, the Book of Mormon (considered a record from the ancient Americas) prophesied the communist conspiracies of his day. God had made this record available to us for our instruction, to learn from them and their destruction. He summed it up best in a Conference talk of 1972 by stating, “There is no conspiracy theory in the Book of Mormon. It is a conspiracy fact.” Skousen-like, he…

Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…l into the things he said to very young children. Another major aim of the book is to present Rogers as a radical pacifist—not a wimpy milksop, but a man of great and countercultural conviction. I confess that this got my dander up at first. I know a lot of white Christian pacifist dudebros who justify their swaggering and mean-spirited braggadocio by saying that they’re “countercultural.” I wasn’t thrilled that they might try to claim Mister Roge…

Birtherism, Satire, “Natural Born Citizen,” and Deuteronomy

By Sarah Posner

…at the “natural born citizen” theory figured so prominently in Corsi’s new book. Corsi doesn’t cite Titus, but Titus has been pushing this harebrained business for a few years. He first presented it to an IOTC “First Friday” event last year. In a 2009 story on WND, Titus was interviewed as an expert on the original meaning of the Constitution, where he also made the same arguments. In its announcement of the book release today, WND notes that befo…

Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)

By Anne Linstatter

…, conferences, universities and seminaries. She authored or co-authored 13 books and hundreds of articles and book reviews. “Virginia Mollenkott was a courageous and generous soul,” said Pamela R. Lightsey, associate dean and professor at Boston University School of Theology. “Another fighter for justice has joined the ancestors. Amen.” Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? Another Christian View (HarperCollins, 1978, rev. 1994) was co-authored with Leth…

A Better Form of Atheism: Rescuing the Christian Tradition from Religion

By Emily Manuel

…God? I think it’s possible to have redemption, and have change and transformation in the way we relate to the world and each other. I don’t think that requires God. What are you working on next? My next major project is going to be a book about the Devil, it’s one of the major themes that came up unexpectedly in the reception of this book. I’m thinking specifically about the ways that the Christian tradition uses the Devil as a political symbolis…

Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well

By Noah Berlatsky

…edium. In part, DeLillo uses Orientalism as a foil for his skepticism. The book critiques the New Age vision of enlightenment and transhumanism by turning the idea of pilgrimage to the East into satire. Kyrgyzstan’s airport is as boring as everyone else’s airport; the East is as bland as the West. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the East exists to make Indiana Jones more exciting and virile; in Zero K, the East exists to make Jeffrey even duller. But…

Hating God: The Untold Story

By Bernard Schweizer

…think, especially during times of crisis, both personal and public. In her book titled Quitting Church (2008), Christian author Julia Duin noticed that a surprising number of her respondents “were disappointed and perplexed in some way with God”. More recently, a social science study was published under the title “Anger Toward God: Social-Cognitive Predictors, Prevalence, and Links With Adjustment to Bereavement and Cancer.” The study’s main autho…

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists

By Beatrice Marovich

…or de Waal, to the extent that it supports each of these presumptions. The book, then, is a conversation about the common ground among atheists and bonobos. According to De Waal, for example, both make it clear that religion has—lamentably and unjustifiably—been given credit for human morality. De Waal emphasizes over and over again that morality is probably embedded into our biologies, though he also seems to suggest that the communal life of pri…