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Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…d justice for all” stuff was applied equally to lesbians and gays. Jon Stewart was so charmed by him that he brought professional wrestler Mick Foley on the show to vow that if anyone harasses young Mr. Phillips, he will come to the school and bring with him “a world of pain.” Foley also said that he would rip out the harasser’s small intestine and use the person as a human tether ball. See? Adorable. (Actually, can you imagine Will’s day at schoo…

Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism

By Bron Taylor

…taken place among philosophers and legal theorists, including in the landmark argument by Christopher Stone, Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment, which was first published in the Southern California Law Review in 1972. Indeed, I contend that the recent developments in Ecuador, Bolivia, and within the United Nations are as American as apple pie: they are to some extent in the spirit of a diverse range of American voices…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…with the wind as a kind of personality—even an adversary. The trees, here, are sparse and there’s nothing to stop the wind from ripping into everything. In the good weather, it whips my hair around as if it’s pulling at it. In cold weather, it’s the thing that makes -8 degrees Fahrenheit “feel like” -28, to use the language of the weather reports. In that kind of weather, it can burn you like the sun. The wind, here, is a potent metaphor. I live o…

Gabby Douglas Thanks God… Why is This News?

By Anthea Butler

…eams. You have to be careful about there. They get stuck into challenges a little bit harder and for a little bit longer than most teams. It’s just in their nature.” Gabby has already had pejorative comments made about her both on twitter and by commentators. Now she has to be examined by a grown woman about how she chooses to express her faith? DAMN. Give her a break. Gabby has given up living with her family to move to Iowa to pursue a dream. No…

To Be Loved or Feared: Doctor Who, part IX

By Gabriel Mckee

…y releasing its most dangerous prisoner? The universe’s many alien species are aware of the Pandorica’s imminent opening, and the Doctor’s most hated villains—the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, and dozens more—have turned up to witness the events. The Doctor thinks they want to claim the Pandorica and use its evil inhabitant as a weapon. As for the Doctor himself, he’s mainly just curious to see what’s in there. And when it does… well, I wis…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…flipped back to Facebook, where I’d posted the Steven Pinker critique of Carr earlier in the morning. There, I found a posting from my “friend” David Buehler, who I’m pretty sure I know only from Facebook and I’m not quite sure why. But I like him a lot and I am pretty sure he is not a serial killer. David had posted a column by David Books in support of Carr that had been in the New York Times a couple days before the Pinker piece. I felt oblige…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…shocking was their following of the United Order—a short-lived communal sharing arrangement that while not eliminating private property altogether nevertheless substantially redistributed land and output for the benefit of all. Considered God’s plan for his children, this moves Mormons beyond individualism and towards a Christian form of socialism. Largely relegated to the dusty past, its theological standing is nevertheless much firmer than any…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…d chalk it all up to religion. The globalization of science now underway, particularly as more and more important research takes place in non-Christian countries like China and Japan and by their nationals working in the West, a totally theology-centric narrative seems less and less plausible. But even an anecdotal survey of what ways of thinking uphold the everyday habits of science today don’t quickly draw one’s mind to religion, nor do they nec…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…or Paul, indeed, it was all about being “in Christ Jesus.” But those words are part of Paul’s adaptation of the creed, not the creed itself. On the face of it, that must surely sound like special pleading. Believe it or not, though, there are very sound critical arguments for saying this, which I lay out in the book. But even without these scholarly gymnastics, one can see that the creed was not originally about cultural obliteration. “There is no…

Why the Obama/Hillary Clinton Approach to Middle East Peace is Doomed to Failure

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…he Obama Administration. Instead, Secretary of State nominee-designate Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday committed the Obama Administration to a path that is certain to fail as it has throughout the past several decades. There were three elements to her position: 1.) A strong recommitment of the United States as the primary support for the State of Israel, a position that guarantees that it cannot play the rol…