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Giving the Bible a Conservative Makeover

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ea of rewriting the Bible in “conserva-speak,” such an endeavor is nothing new. Each new translation of the Bible has some sort of political slant to it, either liberal or conservative. The truth of the matter is this: no matter who takes on translating the Bible, no matter what their agenda, the enduring truth of the text will not be damaged. American minister Theodore Parker wrote in “A Discourse of Religion” that people “sometimes fear the Bibl…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…change and people don’t want to change. People profoundly want to be made new, and people profoundly want to be clothed in Christ, to be born again. And they profoundly want to cling to everything old—about the world, and about themselves. The thing is, that church, as it’s set up, is not usually a way to change; it’s a way to cling to the way things are. I just read an article about a set of emerging renewed churches, two churches, actually, and…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…ecific line on marriage, that the church is opposed to divorce, except on “New Testament scriptural grounds.” In the estimated 35,000 weddings that the Knapps have overseen, how many include people who have been divorced? It’s unclear. Nowhere in the legal proceedings or the public statements the Knapps have made has there been any mention of possible objections to second or third marriages. There are no records of couples being turned away becaus…

“I’m a Creationist,” Says Former Times Tech Writer, Heffernan

By Michael Schulson

…he Big Bang as a child, and then comparing it to the Biblical stories she knew. “I was…considerably less amused and moved by the character-free Big Bang story (‘something exploded’) than by the twisted and picturesque misadventures of Eve and Adam and Cain and Abel and Abraham,” she writes. Because she doesn’t really understand evolution, and because she finds the Biblical account so much more compelling, Heffernan opts for creationism. The outra…

Paranoia Over Foreigners in Egypt Eclipsed by Cooperation

By H.A. Hellyer

…mmensely polite attitude of people searching those coming into Tahrir. The free teas that were spreading all around Tahrir, no doubt paid for through the charitable support of someone in the crowd, or donated by the tea-shop owner – its just another part of the Egypt I have always known. But the Egypt I have known would never have seen people feeling free to voice their criticisms of the president so strongly or openly – that type of attitude cert…

Capitalism and Christianity

By Peter Montgomery

…data: 50 percent of white evangelicals say they believe capitalism and the free market are at odds with Christian values. According to the survey, white evangelicals are more likely to say the free market and Christian values are at odds than black Protestants, mainline Protestants, Catholics, and religiously unaffiliated Americans. On first glance that seems difficult to accept given white evangelicals’ overwhelming electoral support for the Repu…

Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel

By Martin Kavka

…970s, as he recollected the years before he published Night, he wrote: “I knew that the role of the survivor was to testify. Only I did not know how. . . how can one be sure that the words, once uttered, will not betray, distort the message they bear?” To search for a pure Wiesel is to search for a world in which humans do not err, in which they are politically consistent and correct in every way. That search repeats the sin of Oprah, the sin that…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…when the gay ban disappeared. Would-be harassers realized women were now “free to report assaults without fear that they would be accused of and subsequently discharged for being a lesbian.” In the U.S. military, the Department of Veterans Affairs reported in 2000 that “55 percent of women experienced sexual harassment in the military. And a 2005 study estimates that more than half of women in the reserves and National Guard suffered sexual assau…

‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…itism, Islamophobia, (anti-)Zionism, and Israel (not to mention democracy, free speech, and open dialogue). These debates would be more fruitful if informed by the way scholars of religion approach their subject matter. As a starting point I’ve found Harvard Divinity School’s Religious Literacy Project and its four principles (which also happen to be guiding principles of RD) to be helpful in the classroom: Devotional religious expression is disti…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…Orleans during the aftermath of Katrina. As someone who was a resident in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, I will never forget watching the news at my aunt’s house in south central Louisiana, after I had evacuated, as Coast Guard helicopters were rescuing people from their rooftops and dropping them off at the Superdome—the shelter of last resort. In short, the Superdome was not prepared to handle evacuees when it came to the ba…