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The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…paradigmatic free gift, is replaced by the massive edifice of Wall Street number-crunchers and their continual wagering on the future probabilities. As we all know, a lot of money has been made—and lost—this way. Which leads Buchan to his second point: money generates more money, even on Sunday. This is a subtler point, one that he develops specifically in relation to the invention of paper money—money, that is to say, with absolutely nothing to…

Sacrifice, Suffering, and Rick Santorum

By Ivan Strenski

…and religious beliefs of the Santorum family from questioning. It is their business—and nobody else’s. But, given Rick Santorum’s prominence in public discourse about sexual and reproductive politics, he himself has already well blurred the lines between the personal and the political. So, to my questions. First, I am not questioning whether failing to abort a foetus afflicted with Trisomy 18 syndrome was itself morally responsible. (That is the s…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…has come out with his top ten “Anti-Christian Acts of 2010.” Coming it at number one on the hit parade is the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that ended employment discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. Cass warns that the new law “would force ministries to hire people who oppose the beliefs or values of the organization.” That might be something to worry about if it were true, but it’s n…

Conservatives Stand Together for Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Sarah Posner

…tting the “attempt to. . . enshrine homosexual behavior as some protected class.” Potok emphasized that the SPLC’s decision to place a group on the list is not about criminality or violence, but is based on whether the groups in question “demonize other groups with falsehoods” or conspiracy theories. FRC, he added, has associated gay men with pedophilia, a known falsehood. TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reported that the SPLC sees little difference…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…erial prosperity to all believers who have enough faith,” with even higher numbers of Pentecostals and charismatic Christians agreeing with that statement. Go to any Word of Faith church, tune in to TBN, or read reams of books written by Word of Faith evangelists, and you will find the movement’s trademark selective literalism of both the Old and New Testaments, picking out verses that seem—regardless of hermeneutics demonstrating otherwise—to rei…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…s that we would have to engage in if we couldn’t use such words as gender, class, oligarchy, etc. to societies that didn’t know those terms. Yet scholars seem to be more rigid about similar uses of language related to sex. I would also make use of recent literature on aspiring saints and feigned sanctity, clarifying what seems to be less than obvious, that religion and sexuality are not either/or categories, but both/and. I have seen your book in…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…whores,” he includes in his final plans his intentions to “rent” two “high class models” before his attack. As for women he suspects would oppose his views of Islam in Europe, he explores several possible explanations before seemingly settling on the view that women have a deep-seated desire to be dominated: Why is this (that women do not oppose Muslim immigration), considering that there is hardly a single Muslim majority area in the world where…

As Debt Crisis Escalates, Tea Party Acts in Bad Faith

By Joanna Brooks

…building (and the warehousing of thousands upon thousands of young working-class people of color) replaced actual economic planning as the state’s response to economic restructuring and the loss of our manufacturing sector. The Tea Party response to the nation’s economic situation is to hobble federal power and use national debt as a political gun to the head of the president. It’s nihilism masquerading as end-times revivalism. It’s just plain bad…

Of Sports and Social Justice: An Interview with Rebecca Alpert

By Susan Henking

…would our world be different? My partner, Christie Balka, edited a book a number of years ago to which I had the honor of providing the title, Twice Blessed. Christie often reminds me that I told her the book would have no effect and I have spent much time eating my words both about her work and my own. I have been three times blessed with the good fortune of seeing my work contribute to change: opening liberal Judaism to feminist perspectives an…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…ay most Christians do) is a far cry from equating paying taxes with the actual slavery. Comparing slavery to anything experienced by contemporary mainstream middle-class Americans is absurd, and as long as tea partiers continue to do it they’ll be accused of racism….