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How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…ians, Christian writers like St. Augustine—whom I had hated. You see in my book where I talk about burning the pages of the book, that’s exactly what happened. I’m not exaggerating. I was so happy to see it go up in flames; I had suffered so much from that book. And later I read it and I loved it—a great, great man. So it forced me to read and prepare myself, and I couldn’t believe how superficial my understanding of religion had been, even with a…

Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…e Common Good, favors making abortion illegal, and only views reducing the number of abortions as an interim step toward that goal. It is hard to take seriously a movement that thinks they can dramatically reduce the number of abortions while largely ignoring or denying the issue of access to contraception—including emergency contraception. One understands that they feel their hands are tied by the official position of the Catholic church against…

Progressive & Religious

By Robert P. Jones

…t, is only 191 pages long. So, although all of the interviews informed the book, and I include larger quotes in the book so that the voices of these leaders come through, not all are cited in the book. So much rich material had to stay on the cutting room floor. One way I’ve compensated for this is by creating downloadable audio podcasts of selected interviews with these religious leaders [three of these can be found on Dr. Jones’ RD archive]. The…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…fe stated, “Du Mez had a radical LGBT and transgender activist endorse the book on the front cover. But tell me more how Christian aversion to this book is just that ‘white evangelicals’ can’t handle hearing about our ‘history.’” Of course, this isn’t even accurate, and Wolfe undoubtedly knows that. I didn’t blurb Du Mez’s book; the publisher liked a quote from my review and chose to put it on the front cover of the paperback. In a subsequent twee…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…the stage for two long days. While there’s good reason to worry about the number of high-ranking military officers who used the ReAwaken rally to declare war on their political opponents—while attacking US elections and a free press—it was the voices of civilian preachers like Pastor Burns who delivered the most bellicose speeches of the event, unfailingly leaning into violent religious rhetoric. One by one, they warned that the time for battle i…

God Grows Up: Robert Wright’s Evolution of God

By Robert Wright

…orical narrative, not arguments. What alternative title would you give the book? This is the first book I’ve ever written where the title on the original book proposal remained the title of the actual book. And at no point did I lose faith in the title. So I don’t have a lot of alternative titles in mind. I guess I could appropriate the title that Salon put on a piece about the book: “God, He’s Moody!” How do you feel about the cover? I love, love…

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

By Jo Piazza

…nt to both inform and entertain. What alternative title would you give the book? I had a title in mind before I even wrote the book; in fact, the original title was the entire reason that I began writing in the first place. I was initially going to call the book “Bad Habit: The Secret Lives of Nuns,” and for about two years I told people that was the title of the book. We only talked about changing it a few months before I submitted the final manu…

Occultism and New Age Take Off in Iran: An Interview with Alireza Doostdar

By Alireza Doostdar

…-politicians, and other monsters. Inshallah after tenure. What’s your next book? I’m now writing a book that is tentatively titled Can Social Science Be Islamic? Revolution, Epistemology, and Critique. It’s about Iranian attempts since the 1960s to think about Islam as a resource for social scientific thought. The project extends some concerns from my first book, especially those around the scientization of theology. How, I want to ask, do social…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…Because of course it cannot exist in a world of peer review. Richardson’s book works like this: he has a conclusion in mind, and then searches, without any consistent methodology or even concern for basic correspondence with reality, for corroborating evidence. It’s a terrible, terrible book, and it’s important to the degree that it’s atrocious. Because it reveals Islamophobia for us. Richardson’s self-appointed task is to prove that the anti-Chr…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…