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Sarah Palin Calls Biblical Patriarchs “Neanderthals”

By Julie Ingersoll

…response to Palin’s comments, John Lofton posted comments on his website The American View, and went on to decry that “even The ‘Conservative’ Women—Most Of Whom Claim To Be ‘Christians’—Are Feminists! Not A Good Sign…” with a link to Concerned Women for America’s press release celebrating the 90th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. This is one part of the Tea Party Palin is unlikely to win over….

Liberation Theology is Alive and Well

By Mary E. Hunt

…he mother of Mary, with plenty of statues of the Blessed Virgin and nary a sign of Jesus. Maybe there is something to Chung Hyun Kyung’s ideas about female imagery, ideas that stress their life-giving, not death-dealing, ways. Nothing happens in Brazil without music, so there was plenty of that every day at the Forum. Politicians are popular so we even had a few of those. Amazon Senator Maria Silva, a collaborator with the late Chico Mendes (murde…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…Houston Chronicle. “Ed Litton’s character and positions give me hope that significant positive change is possible for the denomination.” Indeed, Litton agreed to an independent audit of the SBC’s handling of sexual abuse issues, a move Southern Baptist author and speaker Daniel Darling lauded in his triumphant USA Today opinion piece as an important step to “stop sexual abuse in [SBC] churches.” While a third party investigation into the denomina…

Moving Day: A Note from the Publisher

By Diane Winston

…on news. As Diane Winston writes below, keep reading!, and don’t forget to sign up for RD’s daily newsletter—and to follow us on Facebook and Twitter. After three and one-half years at USC, Religion Dispatches is moving on! We’ve enjoyed hosting the website, and the Knight Program in Media and Religion has benefited from the collaboration. We’re very proud of the work we produced together, especially covering American Christianities, public theo…

Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson

By Eva Mroczek

…um identifies the mark: Cain is to carry inscribed on his face the holiest sign of all, the “great and honorable name of the LORD.” ______________ *Aramaic had replaced Hebrew as the more commonly spoken vernacular after the Babylonian Exile, and scholars think that the practice of creating Targum—the Aramaic word for translation—began soon after, with new versions and additions continuing to appear for centuries. In the synagogue, scriptural read…

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…tion of the aims and principles of the submission and patriarchy movement. Signers affirm their belief that women and men were designed to reflect God in “complementary and distinct ways”; that today’s culture has gone astray distinctly because of its egalitarian approach to gender (and that it’s “experiencing the consequences of abandoning God’s design for men and women”); and that while men and women are equally valuable in the eyes of God, here…

Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?

By Andrea R. Jain

…nd meditation and Easternism is [sic] all opening to demonism… if you just sign up for a little yoga class, you’re signing up for a little demon class. That’s what you’re doing. And Satan doesn’t care if you stretch as long as you go to hell.” Similar to Islamophobic attempts to produce and demonize a monolithic vision of Islam, Mohler’s recent post simplifies and flattens yoga. In particular he’s bothered by the fact that yoga is grounded in the…

Cafeteria Cockroaches and Synagogue-State Relations in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…a few of whom are grossly overweight, which is read by Israeli voters as a sign of corruption (“The lawmakers are getting fat while some of the citizenry goes hungry,” said one irate voter). While Israel’s legislators are seldom involved in sexual scandal (a major exception being the previous president, Moshe Katsav, who is under indictment for rape), they’re frequently embroiled in corruption scandals over money and influence—peddling and corpule…

Gutless Americans: Religion-Baiting Heading into Election Day

By Evan Derkacz

…e for Faith in Public Life, who urges citizens of all political stripes to sign Faithful America’s petition calling for the NRCC to take the ad down, told me: “Slamming Faithful America for expressing regret over the disgraceful abuses at Abu Ghraib is just disgraceful. Whoever wrote that ad should be ashamed, and its sponsors should not only take it down, but repent for running it in the first place.” Amen. Over in the Senate, incumbent Sen. Eliz…

O(Pinn)ion: Defending Obama’s Choice

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ssues. This invitation, while distasteful in a variety of ways, is a clear sign of Obama’s commitment to compromise, to common ground. Yes, I know; an explanation for this viewpoint—coming from a religious humanist—is in order. Here goes: Obama’s claim to be concerned with change, with the advancement of the country based on shared concerns and vision, had to be played out in more than the political arena. It also had to be true in terms of more p…