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“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…ion, and return to a world where it’s possible to live out what he calls “true Paleo.” Such a world wouldn’t just be better for human carnivores. Considering humanity’s impact on the environment, Eaton argues, it would also be better for the planet. This is Paleo eschatology, essentially—a vision of the world’s final destination, rendered in the language of an idyllic past. Eaton’s vision did not go over especially well with the other participants…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…re trying to move us all without internecine warfare into a very spiritual world, a very new world. From the vantage point of the broader group of religious progressives, those with whom we differ come first into view as potential partners and not presumed enemies. 2. Incivility vs. Good Faith. Another unfortunate mark of the posture of this segment of the new religious left is its snarkiness and, at times, sheer incivility. This take-no-prisoners…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…cture is all wrong. American culture dominates the world, while the Muslim world struggles to produce anything. Indeed, a visitor to Mecca is undoubtedly struck by the degree of its Americanization—there are Burger Kings, KFC, a Starbucks, a Victoria’s Secret, a Sbarro’s, and even a Paris Hilton store. Third, Gingrich believes Mecca is responsible for Ground Zero. Other Islamophobes have suggested nuking Mecca in response to terrorist attacks; G…

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…t would be an enormous bonanza for them in terms of funding but also of recruits from all over the world.” If we take seriously the idea that biblical principles aim at “the best possible life for all,” what would be the “bonanza” for “the best life” from following those principles and rescuing the refugees? I’m not making policy here but rather trying to follow the biblical logic. If we assume the mandate to welcome the needy and stranger is base…

Times‘ Cutesy Guide Veils Humanity of Muslim Women

By Mariam Durrani

…‘ ‘World’ page, beneath articles about British political parties, economic news stories, and other matters of international newsworthiness, you’ll find a peculiar section called: “What in the World.” Sandwiched between articles on cows belching in India and a cutesy rumination on nicknames for Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, you’ll find an article about what to call that thing on a woman’s head in various Muslim countries. “What’s That You’re…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…ouTube to iTunes. Over the years, he has spoken at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, TIME’s Global Health Summit, and numerous congresses around the world. In late-May, according to a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states…

God Grows Up: Robert Wright’s Evolution of God

By Robert Wright

…nsciousness that get us closer to the truth in certain realms. Six years ago I did a one-week silent meditation retreat and at the end of it my state of mind had been transformed. My perspective was less warped than usual by self-centeredness, and in that sense was closer to the truth about the world. Of course, the effect didn’t last. Still, I got a glimpse of an alternative, truer view of the world. What’s your next book? God only knows. I’ve fo…

Do Dogs Have a Soul?: Taking “Creaturely” Life Seriously

By Beatrice Marovich

…ers and exterminated for “humane” reasons, Dayan suggests that the “worst cruelties” often belong “to a politer world.” The abstract concern with “humane treatment and aversion to cruelty empowers those who sacrifice dogs and their owners to a judgment about what kind of human—and what kind of dog—is acceptable.” In other words, the fighting dogs of fighting men, she argues, “become the medium for, and ultimately suffer from, the intimidation, con…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…a by Ann Neumann (2017) – Few recent books so completely exemplify the instrumental and crucial importance of having an attuned religious sensibility as Ann Neumann in this moving, erudite, comprehensive, and deeply human work. Neumann, who for several years wrote a regular column at The Revealer about faith and medical issues, provides a portrait of the ways in which Americans face (or don’t face) our and our loved ones’ mortality. Neumann asks w…

The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…l positions are vehemently opposed to both. Sometimes there’s a nugget of truth to the right’s persecution stories—as when a school official wrongly limits a student’s religious expression—but more often, persecution claims evaporate under the slightest examination. The BuzzFeed story about the Gainses’ pastor was, in my opinion, a mistake—but not part of an ongoing “witch hunt against Christians.” The hubbub in response to the story may be a sign…