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The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…he American Studies Association about this matter. I suggest that if they truly want to commit to a course of action that isn’t hypocritical and arbitrary, U.S. scholars of American Studies pledge to “boycott” American academic institutions (e.g., give up their salaries) if those institutions tacitly or explicitly, through investment or research grants, for instance, supported U.S. violations of human rights—occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, dr…

Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century

By Michael Schulson

…m in the 13th century, weirdly, sound a lot like the pitfalls of pluralism today, the books makes for unexpectedly fascinating reading, and not just for medieval historians. The Trial of the Talmud tells a story of cultures in contact. But what stands out about these documents is how little the Church actually knew, prior to the 12th and 13th centuries, about the Jewish population that lived within its borders and relied on its protection. As Chaz…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…F THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. That § 22-16-34 be amended to read as follows: 22-16-34. Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person while resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to harm the unborn child of such person in a manner and to a degree likely to result in the death of the unborn child, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is Section 2. That § 22-…

A Memoir of Jewish, Transgender Spirituality

By Joy Ladin

…ognize aspects of that experience that relate to their own experience of struggling to become and be true to themselves. I also hope to broaden the perspective in which gender transition is viewed, to show that even when my life was most focused on gender transition, my gender identity was still only one part of a life that centered on relationships with my family, with God, with friends and students and colleagues. At the same time, I wanted to…

The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters

By Kristin Swenson

…re weapon of hatred and destruction. Notice how this kind of learning, this kind of thinking for ourselves, strips away arrogance and prepares a person to exercise precisely the admonition that thrums like a drumbeat throughout the Bible—to love God and to love others. Exactly what that means and how to do it surely merits a lifetime of open-hearted learning….

Old Testament ‘Bad,’ New Testament ‘Good’: A Dangerous (and Mistaken) Assumption

By Peter Laarman

…“you have heard it said…but I say unto you” rhetorical device that can be read (and is read by many) as an attack on Jewish teaching. It should, however, be read as an intensification of that teaching and an attack on both imperfect practice and outright violation of Torah precepts. But the main driver of the misperception is undoubtedly the Big Breakup that forms the backdrop to all four gospel texts: the bitter rift between first century Jesus…

The Wounded People of God

By Anthea Butler

…n done to children who were abused in most news reports, but once you have read personal accounts or read reports, it is very difficult to remain calm or unbiased. In my case, I have heard accounts of sexual abuse by priests either from friends, acquaintances, or those whom I have had occasion to assist, most notably in a parish I attended in Los Angeles. The parish had to deal with the arrest of a former priest who had molested multiple children,…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…lie? If “Muslim” is separate from African-American, does that mean Islam trumps (sic) blackness? What happens with Eastern European Muslims—who are, by any reasonable definition, white and (obviously) European? Are their “culture and politics” more like white, Christian, Italian-Americans or brown, Muslim, Pakistani-Americans? This isn’t really a question the essay sets out to answer, but it’s revealing, isn’t it? American Islam is tremendously v…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…at I wasn’t sure what I could add to the conversation. But as I taught and read and listened, I began to see how various Christian responses to police brutality—and racism and sexism more broadly—were grounded in various theological stories that shaped American Christians and how they saw the world. At the same time, I was thinking about my three sons, who were 17, 15, and 11 when I started writing. We had been talking about everything that was ha…

In ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Hopper Needs to Leave His Christian-Reaganite Indy Jones Hat Behind

By Jason Bartashius

…eurs. These readings, however, are bolstered by Harbour’s pro-inclusivity (read: anti-Trump protest) speech at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Yet, flying in the face of the series’ feminist and LGBTQ affirmative sentiments, Harbour’s Police Chief Hopper is at risk of mutating into Indiana Jones, a pop culture icon critics have long associated with Christian “family values.” Indiana Jones: Christian Reaganite individualist Shortly after its r…