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The Book David Barton Doesn’t Want You To Read

By Michael Coulter

…t he needed to be taken seriously and carefully critiqued. What sealed the deal for wanting to offer a lengthy critique of Barton was reading his book. Reading The Jefferson Lies and finding so many errors and distortions convinced me that an extended critique was needed. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Throckmorton: Readers should examine historical claims for themselves. As harsh as it might sound, this is especially tru…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…500 pages, Landes’ book is only half a volume, for it consciously does not deal with the best-known forms of millennialism: Christian and Jewish ones. This is like writing about soft drinks without mentioning Coca Cola. Yet the dozen cases Landes studies in depth, ranging from the 1856 Xhosa Cattle-Slaying to Marxism and Global Jihad, offer a series of mirrors through which to see more familiar religious and secular movements alike. It’s easy to s…

The 1000-year-old Muslim Perspective on Meat Eating

By Hussein Rashid

…a recent New York Times essay contest on the ethics of meat eating doesn’t deal with religion in any meaningful way: [The winning] essay makes its arguments without referring to religion. Yet for many vegetarians and meat-eaters, one’s diet and its ethical implications is based on religious law, or one’s spirituality. In fact, some of the most ardent defenders of meat-eating and vegetarianism have been revered religious figures. Religions have die…

Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…firm in February 1999 and that Romney probably had nothing to do with the deal. Since this could potentially lose Romney some enthusiasm among social conservatives, I initially thought I would write a post about reactions to the story in the pro-life blogosphere. Except… I couldn’t find any. Guys, I looked, but as of Tuesday afternoon, here’s where it stands: Lila Rose’s Twitter feed? No mention as of this writing. National Right to Life? Top he…

Nuns on the Bus: 2700 Miles, Nine States, and a Rock Star DC Welcome

By Mary E. Hunt

…sible programs,” the message of the Faithful Budget Campaign, makes a good deal of sense. “Question Austerity” is another of their mantras. Anyone who works in social change realizes that it takes not just grace, as Simone Campbell put it so bluntly, but money. There is no way to justify cutting programs for those who are poor without at the same time expecting that people who are wealthy will pay more than the current tax structures dictate. Mess…

Bruni on Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…he religious right. I actually think these movements have received a great deal of positive coverage of late; one need look no further than polling data on attitudes toward LGBT people and same-sex marriage to realize who the ideological (if not legal, at the moment) victors are there. More broadly, one of the reasons why there is not the clearly identifiable religious left that Bruni pines for is the criticism of the religious right itself: many…

Religious Leaders Accuse Conservatives of Misleading Public on Contraception

By Katie Toth

…decided to enter the legal fray… spending their donor dollars and a great deal of their time in order to do that.” (Wheaton College, the prominent evangelical school in Illinois, became the latest institution to sue the Obama administration over the contraceptin coverage requirement.) “Unfortunately they violated one of the primary dictates of our faith… which is that we tell the truth.” Knox called contraceptive coverage with no co-pays a moral…

The Eternal in the Blink of an Eye, Chris Marker (1921-2012)

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…y. But if we stopped with Christological comparisons we would miss a great deal of the strength of this or any film by Marker. Marker was perpetually interested in travel; across time and through space. And while these are ostensibly the themes of sci-fi and travelogues, he cleared paths to reveal our human-religious sensibilities as journeying creatures who remember, who experience the sensual world, who communicate in smell and touch and sound…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…feel that Obama and the Democrats have gone too far, that this may be the deal breaker. Jackson was initially a bit more circumspect, perhaps because he is asking for checks to be made to his self-promoting High Impact Leadership Coalition, whose website says it is a 501(c)(3) organization and which seems to operate as a ministry of his church. Jackson said on the call that his campaign “really is a defense of marriage strategy” designed to make…

Warren Cancels Forum Obama/Romney Declined to Attend

By Sarah Posner

…at voting for a “Holocaust denier” (i.e., someone who is pro-choice) is a “deal-breaker” for many evangelicals. Obama was pressured to talk about “abortion reduction,” but Warren likens such rhetoric likening it to Schindler’s List: an attempt to save some lives but not end a “holocaust.” In the world of the “broader agenda” evangelicals, when liberals advocate for gay marriage, they’re stoking the culture wars; when a “broader agenda” evangelical…