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What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…as part of its “spiritual mapping” project. It is currently operational in Central America, Uganda and the Middle East. Otis’ history in Middle East dates back more than two decades to when his father George Otis Sr., a close friend of Ronald Reagan and former Lear Jet executive, set up the High Adventure radio ministry in Lebanon in 1980. Otis put the station in the hands of Christian Falangists during the Israeli occupation. The US State Departm…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…ble finding doctors who will write them a prescription for lethal drugs. A central Washington man diagnosed with pancreatic cancer asked his doctors for the drugs, but not one would approve his request. Stephen Wallace died on April 8, after what his family said was a painful struggle that could have been avoided had doctors respected his wishes. “Patients need professional medical support for their choice, not abandonment at their moment of need,…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…reader of my book will see. Adams, in her book, makes the problem of evil central to Christian theology, and represents the incarnation and crucifixion as God’s solution to the problem. It’s written in an academic style and sometimes gets a bit heavy with the technical language of theology and philosophy of religion, but for anyone interested in really engaging with the problem of evil from within the context of Christian theology, this book is i…

Pop-Eye: Blind Faith and the Invisible Font

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…collected. Helvetica, whether we are conscious of it or not, has become a central visual reference in modern Western culture. Two tabs. One sacred and one profane? The Internet as a mode of erasing such differences? But the truth is more complex. What I am after here is not a discourse on the reduction of all messages, great and small, to the medium of the Web page, interesting as that might be; but rather the constant interrelation of the medium…

Christianity Without the Cross

By Rosemary Ganley

…ters spent five years sniffing out evidence that the cruciform symbol, the central image of Christianity, arrived very late on the scene. Indeed, it was not important during the first millennium of Christian history. For evidence they went to the art. The search took them to Rome, Ravenna, and Turkey; then to Germany. “It took Jesus a long time to die,” Brock says. Not until 965 in northern Germany was the life-sized oak crucifix called the Gero C…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…network of skilled graduates. In 2005, the Bentonville company entered the Central American market, drawing together existing chains in Costa Rica and Guatemala that had employed Walton graduates.” What amazes me is that even as we dreamed of a progressive, cosmopolitan, egalitarian, and cooperative counterculture, the Waltons of the world created one that now spans the globe. Equally striking is that their world looks to them the same way we woul…

Teaching the Dalai Lama’s Monks: Better Religion Through Science

By Arri Eisen

…nd inexorable globalization experiment, there is that most challenging and central question for all educators and learners: how do we most effectively teach and learn across cultural and intellectual gaps? In its own small way, our project is a model and provides a laboratory for addressing these big questions. The components are there for a good experiment: a religious leader and a religion, Tibetan Buddhism, unusually open to discussion and inte…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…t from certified nurse midwives, who have extensive medical training) from Central Indiana Home Birth Midwives. According to retired OB-GYN blogger Amy Tuteur, the midwife told Chmielewski that she was carrying twins, and maintained her diagnosis despite an ultrasound that only revealed one fetus, claiming that one twin was “hiding” behind the other. As Chmielewski was nearly three weeks past her due date, the midwife advised her to wait; when the…

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he very palace where the Capitoline collection was housed. The idea was to promote the fine arts, by providing a space in which contemporary artists could sketch the naked human form, both from Classical statues and live models. But that was all taking place near the old Roman Forum, the heart of the ancient profane city on the other side of town from the sanctity of Saint Peter’s. Less than a decade later in 1761, Benedict’s successor, Clement X…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…nine co-sponsors in the Senate and was introduced in the House by Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt, who had 50 co-sponsors, including now-Minority Whip Eric Cantor, now-Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Rep. Mike Pence, who is thought to be considering a 2012 presidential run. Partners In Arms: Militias, the Religious Right, and Biblical Law The militia movement and Christian Reconstructionism both contend that our current civil government,…