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Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…im that the fetus feels pain. (Minnesota’s current governor, Democrat Mark Dayton, has pledged a veto.) Such a ban was enacted in Nebraska in 2010, and four more states — Kansas, Indiana, Idaho, and Oklahoma — enacted one this year. The question, then, for the 2012 GOP hopefuls is whether they support these even more radical measures, including elimination of family planning funding, 20-week abortion bans with functionally no exceptions, laws requ…

Why Darwin Keeps Coming Back

By Peter Manseau

…ood of the nation (and particularly the rural Protestantism of places like Dayton, Tennessee, where the trial was held) was “greatly affected by the general disillusionment of the postwar decade.” In other words, the Scopes Trial, and the media fervor surrounding it, was in some ways a symptom of a religious malaise. 1925, 1955, 2005: What do these dates in American history have in common? Other than, say, the long shadow of war, recession, and de…

Creationists Try to Claim Scopes

By Lauri Lebo

…ennessee’s proposed anti-evolution bill, wrote recently in an op–ed in the Chattanoogan. The argument, of course, is that those who can’t teach the strengths and weaknesses of evolution are in the same boat as was Scopes, who couldn’t teach the overwhelming evidence for common descent. It’s a disingenuous argument and one I doubt Scopes would have bought: Forty years after Scopes was found guilty for teaching evolution, he mused about an alternati…

Evolution ‘Doesn’t Make Any Sense’: A Scene From a Classroom

By Lauri Lebo

…nd of science blogs the past couple days. It’s from a science classroom in Dayton, TN. (Home to the famous Scopes Monkey Trial.) These kids are now grownups of about 30. Many no doubt have children of their own, who likely continue to mindlessly parrot the same creationist talking points of their parents. And so, the circle of life continues. The most frustrating part is that the students appear to have genuine confusion over evolution and are str…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…wer people accepted evolution than in the United States.) According to Ron Numbers’ The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, in the wake of the publishing of Origin, Christians in America were, for the most part, able to make peace with Darwin’s theory and evolutionary principles. It wasn’t until the early 1900s, when a series of religious pamphlets, “The Fundamentals,” were published arguing for the acceptance of the B…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…battles over religion and science. Fundamentalist Fervor According to Ron Numbers, in his book The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America didn’t really start in earnest until the early 1900s. For the most part, Christians were not biblical literalists and accepted science—including the ideas that the earth was very old and that living creatures changed through time. A typic…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…w dozen yards of the riders and take pictures of the scene with their cell phone cameras. Traffic on College Avenue begins to pick up. “You’re protesting God!” a motorist hollers when he catches sight of one of the Soulforce banners. Finally a slender young man wearing a “CBC Soccer” jacket ventures all the way to the sidewalk. “I just kind of want to show them I care,” says Jonathan Jacobs, a junior at the college. Jacobs, whose family moved to C…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…er of the amazing things about him. He was approachable, answering his own phone and mail, meeting with complete nobodies like me. I thanked him for the basketball lessons that I had learned from him, but more importantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a reminder that those we loved we…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…ger chilling effect in the American Jewish world, yes; I’ve gotten so many phone calls and voicemails [from people] who have had something happen to them—this summer I do believe it has gone off the rails.” Yet, Kleinbaum said, “I do think my job is to create a Jewish space in which this discussion can take place without saying this person is not a good Jew and another is a good Jew. That, I think, is a reachable goal for my community.” Many rabbi…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…tian radical A. J. Muste calling Moses the organizer of “Brickmakers Union Number 1” and a pacifist Russian rabbi named Tamaret—wove them all into a new Telling of the tale of freedom. In that Telling, the then ongoing, even now unfinished, struggle of Black America for freedom was interwoven with the ancient story of the Israelites’ struggle to end their slavery under Pharaoh. Where the old Haggadah had what seemed to me a silly argument about ho…