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Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…but with a twist. The red-clad heroine has been matched in a most spirited way to a local woodcutter since childhood; the two dream of running away together, to escape the small town and its wooded environs. But the girl has recently been betrothed to a well-to-do blacksmith in the town, so the lovers decide to leave. On the very day of their departure, the wolf strikes, killing Red’s sister. When the men go hunting for the wolf it strikes again….

Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet

By Linn Marie Tonstad

…sible reaction to doubt is to see whether it can become as all-embracing—a way of life—just like faith. Pascal’s wager suggests that faith has long been part of a marketplace: in effect, Pascal shorted atheism. Bell’s marketplace looks very different. We might invest in Christianity, or in atheism, or in Buddhism. The choice is ours; we decide one way or another. Bell was an adjunct teacher at Azuza Pacific University and Fuller Seminary. His cont…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ls have found that by excommunicating women priests they have a convenient way to distract from the criminal activity of priest pedophiles and bishops who covered up their crimes. Note that while every woman priest has been excommunicated, not one of those men has been. Contemporary understandings of priesthood are changing. Outmoded biologistic understandings of apostolic succession—the hands that laid the hands that laid the hands—are giving way…

Watching Man of Steel in Istanbul

By Haroon Moghul

…out. The dialogue was utterly embarrassing and unconvincing—“this ends one way, either you die or I die” (that’s two ways as I count it); or “I have so many questions,” Kal-El says, when he meets Jor-El, and you kind of die inside. The plot development was nonexistent, the animating tensions absent (we never feel why Superman is allegedly caught between worlds, or why he loves humans), the pacing rushed and languorous, accelerating when it needed…

Cafeteria Christianity in the Age of Social Media: What’s Old Is New Again

By Kate Blanchard

…ed in the modern era. But most traditions have at least some who take a my-way-or-the-highway approach and have particular shibboleths upon which no compromise is possible. (What would mainstream religion coverage look like without them?) Nevertheless, despite the best efforts of those who would make their traditions an all-or-nothing proposition, human beings have gone on picking and choosing, if perhaps never quite as unabashedly as young Americ…

Trump Floated Dastardly Deal With Erdogan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…whether Gulen or any members of his Hizmet movement were complicit in any way. I still don’t have any evidence of that one way or another. But more importantly, no one else seems to know either. There’s been no evidence released publicly that would clearly implicate Gulen in the coup attempt. If the Turkish government has some evidence of his involvement, they’ve been unwilling to make it public in a way that would convince the U.S. State Departm…

Christian Passover, Yes or No?: A Response to Rabbi Moffic

By David Greenspoon

…common, and celebrate what makes each tradition a unique voice in the chorus of a universal song of praise to the Creator of us all. Passover is indeed a wonderful opportunity to accomplish these holy goals. The challenge is to do so in a way that reflects and respects that Christianity and Judaism might in many ways be closely related and connected, but at the end of the day are not part and parcel of each other. Respecting the unique gifts each…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…is unexplainable without that deep history of thought.” But is that not a way of explaining inevitability? On the question of determinism, Nirenberg is right: it is better for the historian to be “reflective” rather than “dogmatic.” But is it dogmatic to point out the frequent connections between murderous rhetoric and genocide? Describing the world in anti-Jewish (or anti-Tutsi or anti-Armenian) terms does not always lead to violence, but such r…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…atharsis?” “Maybe just a little gratitude.” “Gratitude? I wanted to die my way. Not torn apart by drooling freaks. That was my choice. You took that away from me, Dale. All I wanted was to get out of this endless horrific nightmare we live every day. I wasn’t hurting anyone else. You took my choice away, Dale.” Monsters Appear when Boundaries are Blurred Zombies are a rich metaphor for a host of modern fears. An early 20th century product of Haiti…

Sarah Palin: Bus Tour of Destruction

By Anthea Butler

…the picture. Whatever you think about Sarah Palin, you have to admit, any way it goes, the dice have rolled right by her, even when it seems she has crapped out. Palin may have taken a hit for quitting the governorship, but hey, when you’ve got your own tour bus like Brent Michaels in “Rock of Love” with your picture painted on it, who wouldn’t quit Alaska and smelling like salmon? Besides, she’s not even riding the bus, she’s flying to each loca…