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Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

…way to ask this: Can you envision a time when more than a relatively small number of Christians will actively challenge and oppose the imperial project? Or is not so much a matter of numbers as it is of intensity? At this point we have to take with equal seriousness both human evolution and the core of the biblical tradition—or either one separately, as I take the same message away from each. For Jesus and Paul, it is never just about being agains…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…he Hitching Post? According to the company’s website there are two wedding packages, each of which includes a minister, music, a venue for the wedding, use of a changing room, and legal documentation. The whole thing costs under $90. Six to 10 digital photos cost $12 extra. The Hitching Post offers three venues for the wedding: a chapel, mostly free of religious symbols but adorned with flowers and foliage; a “Western room,” with cowboy-boot-and-g…

Orrin Hatch: Health Care Dollars for Prayer Cures, But Not Abortion

By Peter Laarman

…at public funding of prayer treatment is part of “finding effective health care.” It matters greatly that this appalling provision, if enacted into law, will undoubtedly invite other faiths to get into the healing business in order to compete with Christian Science for those subsidized insurance payments. The Hatch provision is not yet in the consolidated healthcare bill that Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring to the floor—it is only in the bil…

Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…ly, Friend put his employees at legal risk by arranging for them to accept packages of marijuana for his personal use. In the last few months, four of Anusara’s most senior teachers—Christina Sell, Darren Rhodes, Elena Brower, and Amy Ippoliti—resigned one by one, citing “professional differences.” On February 12, two additional senior teachers, Noah Maze and Bernadette Birney, resigned, and Maze stepped down from his position on an interim commit…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…coincidentally, the dominant metaphor of de Grey’s program is the vintage car: as much as it can continue to run many years beyond the initial design of the car, provided it undergoes periodic, expensive maintenance, so can the human being postpone death indefinitely by undergoing periodic regenerations. The car metaphor indicates that for de Grey and other transhumanists humans are no more than a sum of their physiological processes, which are e…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…nti-Semitic taunts and bullying in his youth, but when he began his acting career he borrowed a screen-ready stage name from the Los Angeles telephone directory. “He was serious about who he was, about being Jewish,” Wolff remembers of the impression Landon made during that first meeting. “He had been looking for a way to announce it to the world.” According to Wolff, “The Craftsman” became that way. Singerman was a Jew dropped into the mythology…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…, he said, to endorse the maxim, “No one is obliged to help someone else’s car out of a ditch.” But not everyone is lucky enough to have a sturdy car and not everyone shares your preference for self-reliance. And you’re going to have a hard time convincing others to take your ethical views seriously if those views are too obviously retrofitted to your own circumstances and personality. So, to apply Mackie’s argument to Elevatorgate, the people arg…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…of the accident, Cook drove on. Another cyclist caught up to the Bishop’s car at a stoplight and rapped on the window. Cook stepped on the gas and disappeared into her gated apartment community. After calling a diocesan official, Cook returned to the scene, some 20 to 40 minutes later. And by then, Palermo was dead. The bishop wasn’t charged until days later, after an extensive police investigation and a social media campaign demanding her prosec…

Alienating Even the Sadistic Trumpian Right, How Did Kristi Noem Miscalculate So Badly With Her Puppy Killing Story?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…reported that he’d transported the family dog, an Irish Setter on top of a car during a 12-hour trip, scaring the dog, leaving it to have diarrhea—washing down the car and then continuing the trip with the terrified dog still strapped to the roof of the car. Incidentally, Romney refused to compare his scandal to Noem’s, declaring: “I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog, and my dog loved me.” While other former presidential candidates like John Ker…

Saudi Women Take to the Twittersphere to Protest Driving Ban

By Joanna Brooks

…ing on donkey and horseback and comparing those forms of conveyance to the car. Maajid Nawaz, founder of the London-based anti-extremism think tank Quilliam, tweeted, “The Prophet Muhammad’s wife Aisha led an army on camel-back.” Others point out the economic injustice of a system that requires women to pay for a driver (at the cost of $300 a month) or else depend on the services of male relatives. According to Amnesty International, the current f…