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Doonesbury Comic Waxes Eloquent on the Greatness of Jesus, Slams Old Testament God

By Benjamin Weiner

…orroboration, talkbackers have discerned a tendency to stereotype Jewish characters (Phil Slackmeyer, Sid Kibbitz, Marcia Feinbloom.) This one doesn’t really fall under the heading of a serious affront, and I hope the Anti-Defamation League will, accordingly, save its resources for another occasion. But I also don’t think Trudeau deserves a free pass, either. He has, let’s say unwittingly, conjoined and perpetuated two rather pernicious canards th…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…ted in dramatic fashion). The Church is doomed. Were it not, that is, for Harvard “symbologist” Robert Landgon and his ingenious puzzle-solving. (Perhaps the world would be safer if his field of research actually existed.) What’s the motive for this unthinkable terrorism? Ostensibly it’s the fruit of a centuries-old feud between the dogmatic Vatican and a radicalized remnant of the Illuminati, the brotherhood (or, as the book calls them, the “thin…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…lly an unfortunate, unavoidable consequence of the situation that Jews and Arabs are mired in. Unlike much of the human rights advocacy community, people in the pro-Israel left generally view the region through a prism that reflects Israelis’ sense of permanent vulnerability and their determination not to be vulnerable. If we object to the missiles that repeatedly killed innocent women and children in Gaza or Lebanon, we will be assured that Israe…

Mitch McConnell’s Embarrassment

By Sarah Posner

…s views of the “traditional family,” the speaker hardly comes across as a card-carrying member of the American Family Association, saying, “I think too she’s clearly sort of anti-sort-of-traditional American family.” The religious right hardly shies away from attacking liberal or feminist Christianity like Judd’s. But that tape teems with contempt for both Judd and the religious right, whom the speakers seem to think of not as crucial allies, but…

The Mistaken Assumption Behind Employers’ “Right” to Not Cover Contraception

By Mary Barker

…t receives aren’t “given” by owners, but rather already belong to it. They are earned, not bestowed. Owners no more “give” compensation to workers than the latter “give” profits to owners. And if employees are receiving the portion of production that is already theirs, then their compensation is not an extension of their employers, but rather an extension of themselves. The compensation package, therefore, doesn’t concern the First Amendment righ…

Noble Prize-Winner Yunus Under Fire For “Un-Islamic” Gay Rights Stance

By M. Sophia Newman

…oppose the legislation. The document, which read, “By expressing our solidarity with LGBTI people around the world, we recognize the inherent dignity and human rights of all individuals, without prejudice or intolerance,” received little public response. More than a year later, however, Yunus’ pro-gay rights stance has become a flashpoint inside Bangladesh. On October 1 of this year, organizers announced an upcoming protest against the 73-year-ol…

Carson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion

By Sarah Posner

…eology, have long been protective of religious freedom and church-state separation. But Carson has doubted a Muslim’s suitability for the White House; in that, he is aligned with the 69 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers who told the Bloomberg/DMR pollsters that it would be unacceptable to have a Muslim president. In the end, we may see the decline of the Carson candidacy without any of this being discussed. (That, indeed, would be a r…

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…niency to Wight. Wilson cast their sexual interactions as the result of a parent-arranged courtship—something Greenfield maintains is untrue—but, according to emails gathered in an extensive analysis of Wilson by researcher Rachel Shubin, the judge seemed to accept Wilson’s narrative and rejected a more stringent plea agreement under charges of sexual abuse of a child.” A church plant of Christ Church later financially supported Wight as a mission…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…stuff closing, is it like that everywhere?” said Frye-Jackman’s daughter, Margaret Bakes, accompanying her mother to the doctor’s recently. “Are all the other states closing stuff too?” As the article details, the answer to that question is essentially “yes.” The dire news comes as no surprise to anyone who’s opened a newspaper recently: jobs are vanishing, the banking system is teetering on the precipice, the auto industry may be beyond redemptio…

‘Cancel Culture’ Is as Old as Religion, And It’s Only a Thing Because of Who’s Doing the Cancelling

By Shaul Magid

…That it can teach us a lesson about cancel culture. Others have made similar arguments that the Talmud is a lesson in pluralism as its pages contain legal discussions that include minority and rejected opinions. In fact, one of its tractates called Ediyot (‘Testimonies’) even discusses why minority opinions remain inside as opposed to being relegated to the dustbin of history. This of course, is not unique. U.S. Supreme Court decisions contain di…