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Conservative Propagandists Claim Silver (Or Gold) Lining To BP Disaster

By Lauri Lebo

…spend the money for research of safe deep-water drilling.” Wow, we’re not running out of oil after all. There’s a limitless renewable supply! Let’s get those Hummers back on the market and start stimulating the economy. Of course, no credible scientist takes this theory seriously. It would be nice to think that perhaps there is a silver lining to this. That Americans will finally wake up and start accepting the reality of climate change and our d…

Tea Partiers Say Slavery Not Race-Related

By Julie Ingersoll

…been a favorite for Christian schools and home schoolers (and among Reconstructionists—though Skousen himself is a Mormon, free market, Austrian school guy). So, Slavery Was Not About Race? As I understand it, the fight over the degree to which America was “founded as a Christian Nation,” is a fight over our mythic understanding of ourselves. I don’t mean myth in the popular sense—as in “myths are widely held to be true but actually are not.” Rath…

Dear Governor Kasich, Will You Come Lead My Passover Seder?

By Michael Schulson

…and return to the Promised Land. With Passover coming so soon, I’m in the market for a Jewish ritual expert. A wise child, if you will. And apparently you’ve got it covered. I very much enjoyed the video of you explaining the story of Joseph to a group of Talmudic scholars. I keep coming back to this one statement of yours about Joseph: “They threw him in that ditch, and then his brothers saved him, and that’s how the Jews got to Egypt. Right? Di…

Are Tea Partiers Pro-Gay and Pro-Choice?

By Sarah Posner

…t the majority of tea partiers believe Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. As Ruy Teixeira showed in this further dissection of the poll: Findings from a recent New York Times/CBS News poll make this point very clearly. The poll finds that the general public remains stalwart in its support for the Roe v. Wade decision establishing the right to obtain a legal abortion: 58 percent say this decision was a good thing, compared to just 34 percent who say…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…Objects to Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Genizah. A disparate lot, they’re bound together by the gloriousness of their prose, their acute sense of pacing and their wide-eyed, imaginative approach to material culture and its relationship to history. What’s your next book? I’m leaning towards something that calls on my inner Sherlock Holmes, something with lots of clues but no clear-cut resolution…

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…re all nothing more than elaborations of the teachings of Christ. The International New Thought Alliance, founded in 1915, did not scrub multiple references to Christianity from its Declaration of Principles until 1957, when a new statement proclaimed the “inseparable oneness of God and Man.” Let us then have a closer look at the one huge family tree, starting with the observations of the great William James, speaking here in his 1901-1902 Gifford…

Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…Values, Politics, and Messaging of the Black Community, sought to dispel “rumors” that the tea party movement doesn’t “welcome blacks.” Yet while they endorsed their tea party friends (who had apparently depleted their audience), other speakers made clear that perhaps the tea parties needed a little more of the holy ghost. “We need the tea party movement with a Christian imperative,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispa…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…God and man.” Gritty Pittsburgh of incandescent beauty, dedicated to the grubby grind of manufacturing, but which was also deeply pious, deeply religious—dare I say it, deeply holy. Three decades after Cather left, the skyscraper of East Liberty Presbyterian Church would be constructed in her former neighborhood. If Paul’s father preferred white-washed simplicity then Richard Beatty Mellon disagreed, for the cathedral is a veritable symphony of s…

The Vatican ‘Doubts’ Same-Sex Love, But More Doubt The Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…s of same-sex love and would go elsewhere if they couldn’t get it at home. Market share is always a factor in these matters, not to take anything away from the Germans’ good will. Georg Bätzing, president of the Bishops’ Conference in Germany, understated that there are “no easy answers” on these questions, noting that the document reflects current official teaching. True enough. What it does not reflect is current practice. In Catholicism, practi…

3 Reasons the SCOTUS Challenge to Contraceptive Mandate is a “Religious Liberty” Stalking Horse

By Patricia Miller

…her non-procreative relationships that counter Catholic doctrine. It’s instructive to note that Catholic health systems are conspicuously absent from the list of plaintiffs to the contraceptive mandate. Of the seven cases that will be heard by the court, other than the Little Sisters of the Poor, who are the Becket Fund’s poster children for the injustices of the mandate, there are two Catholic dioceses, where the bishops themselves are essentiall…