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“Frontier Feminist” The Right’s Favorite In Nevada

By Sarah Posner

…program run by the Church of Scientology. She also reportedly introduced celebrity Scientologists Kelly Preston and Jenna Elfman to Sen. John Ensign (a paragon of godly virtue!) to encourage him to sponsor legislation that would prohibit public schools from requiring students to take psychiatric drugs. The SBA List took credit for unseating West Virginia Democrat Allen Mollohan, and plans to spend $6 million this election cycle to promote the can…

Religious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…esman. A high school band director in Alabama has been accused of coercing students to attend a concert at a Baptist church and routinely leading a class in prayer. School officials deny the claim. The Associated Press reports Pope Benedict XVI will likely apologize “for the church’s handling of clerical sexual abuse cases when he attends a meeting of the world’s clergy in June.” In Britain, a Foreign Office memo was leaked mocking the Pope’s visi…

Does The Supreme Court’s Religious Composition Matter?

By Sarah Posner

…really wants to take over the Supreme Court, it should start sending more students to Harvard Law School. While the religion of Supreme Court justices shouldn’t matter, and there most certainly shouldn’t be a religious litmus test of any kind (including a litmus test for religious belief or affiliation), I was curious enough to take a look at this handy guide to the religion of Supreme Court justices. You have to go back nearly 150 years to find…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…of God in all worldly matters. Followers of Van Til (including his former students Bahnsen and Rousas John Rushdoony, and Rushdoony’s son-in-law, Gary North) adopted this “presuppositionalism” as a doctrine, with all its implications for the role of religion in political life. Recapturing Institutions for Jesus Reconstruction writers regard the history of Protestant politics since the early years of the Reformation as having taken a bad turn, and…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…State claimed that homosexuality, not celibacy, was the cause of the high number of pedophilia cases in the Church. The Vatican issued a long overdue policy Monday that bishops must report sex abuse cases, but it did not impose a zero tolerance policy similar to what is in place in the U.S. Focus on the Family was for the possibility of a gay Supreme Court nominee before they were against it. Televangelist Joyce Meyer condemned the Uganda Anti-Ga…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…aeli public opinion poll that found that 56% of Israeli Jewish high school students polled did not think that Israeli Arabs are entitled to the full rights of citizenry. But despite the pessimistic tone taken by many, the organizers—committed to peaceful conflict resolution—ended the forum by announcing a series of lectures, tours, and encounters that would introduce Israeli Jews to the lives and concerns of their non-Jewish neighbors. And, somewh…

Yearning For A God We Can Live With

By Benjamin Weiner

…ichaelson stands in a proud line of Jews who have been anything but casual students. Everything is God represents one of the more erudite attempts to situate nondualistic insights in Jewish material. At its core lies the fact that Judaism, being a “theistic” tradition, makes use of the word “God,” which, following certain esoteric doctrines of the Kabbalah, Michaelson associates with the essential unity of nondualism. “To be sure,” he writes, “th…

Good Without God: The Ethics of Atheism

By Becky Garrison

…re are more slaves today than at any time in human history. The Not For Sale Campaign, one of the driving forces behind this documentary, brings together a wide swathe of people including faith groups, students, teachers, artists, and the business community to mobilize together for this common cause. Time will tell if this grassroots movement for good can produce real results. …

Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…costumes. If you want to know about the real deal, my post is here and the students’ here. As for Caprica, othering is so pervasive that it constitutes the basis of most relationships. Capricans other Taurons, polytheists other monotheists, and Sam Adama others anyone he has to kill. Likewise, gender performances belie the easy androgyny that marked BSG. In Caprica, masculinity is the exercise of controlled power. Tomas Vergis is a pro, Joe Adama…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…ions. I have noticed, however, that there is a very powerful longing in my students to become public intellectuals, even though the academic system does not reward it. What advice would you give them? I truly sympathize with these young scholars, because if they want to get tenure and job security, they have to learn to write in a particular way and they thus acquire habits of writing that are difficult to discard. But their expertise is very valu…