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Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…Falwell Jr. said after Weyrich’s death. “He hosted many Liberty University students and interns at high-level political events in Washington, exposing them to the political process and teaching them how to become part of it. I met many of our nation’s political leaders when I attended some of those events as a college student in the early 1980s. Paul Weyrich will be greatly missed by conservative Christians across this nation. He worked tirelessly…

Prison as Resurrection

By Caleb Smith

…? Most people seem to assume that the prison is eternal and inevitable. My students are often surprised to learn that punishment has a history: that the modern prison was invented as a response to certain social and philosophical changes around the turn of the nineteenth century. Partly because the prison is so deeply aligned with the dream-life of power in America, it is very hard to imagine alternatives. Did you have a specific audience in mind…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…conservative politics of the college but also the personal politics of its students, such as the young fundamentalist women who must choose between the ankle-length “prairie skirts” they consider appropriate for Christian women and the more modern dress that will allow them to more effectively champion their causes in the halls of power. Frank’s calm, respectful, portraits reveal that dilemma without words, such as this photograph of a young woman…

The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By Bruce Chilton

…ent at Sheffield University in England. One afternoon, after meetings with students, I struck up a conversation with a colleague who was (and is) an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. We talked about Abraham’s offer to sacrifice his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Both Judaism and Christianity took that story and changed its ending. According to some graphic accounts, Abraham actually slaughtered the boy on Mount Moriah, just as God commanded him to do, and…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…aught entitled “Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality.” I wanted to show my students the new virtual hajj experience sponsored by Islamicity.com in the online world of Second Life. When I forgot my password, my student Jonathan offered to log in and allow us to visit the site with his avatar. Unfortunately, his avatar was already wearing a Batman costume. So would wearing the costume on the virtual hajj be disrespectful? And if Jonathan were to gui…

Can Evangelicals Ever be Journalists First?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…k inside secular institutions. But while the same universities that helped students launch careers in those fields are offering similar programs in journalism, they haven’t been as successful at changing the nation’s newsrooms. “The media—journalism—remain one of the hardest fields for them to realize their power,” said D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and author of “Faith in the Halls of Power.” It chills me to the bone to won…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…ategy. It’s not just bad science, it’s bad theology. Such dichotomy forces students to choose between faith and science. After Dover’s trial was over and before Judge Jones’ decision, I took a cross-country road trip, visiting creationist museums. My journey took me to the Paluxy Flats. I sat alone at a swimming hole and gazed at the very real footprints where dinosaurs had walked 105 million years ago. I’ve thought often of those little boys and…

Cancer Vaccine Causes Premarital Sex?

By Kate Childs Graham

…I assume that they do not teach comprehensive sexuality education to their students. Without the proper education, these young women probably are more likely to make uniformed sexual decisions. They may very well believe that this vaccine will protect them from pregnancy or that you can’t get pregnant your first time or masturbation will make you go blind or … In lieu of the vaccine, Calgary Catholic schools will have a packet of information on th…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…ed in archive or public record) and render an analysis of the subject. For students of religion, this analysis is not an inherently apolitical exercise, but it is, at its best, one disentangled from theological prescription. Somehow, without a God (but not, as we will see, without a powerful creed) John McCain has forged for himself a moral mode, a discourse, a rhetoric of righteousness. What, then, ought it matter whether he is or is not, technic…

Creationism v. Integrationism

By Arri Eisen

…in India. In the pilot we just completed, several professors and graduate students taught life sciences, neurosciences, physics, math, and science philosophy to thirty-three monks and 5 nuns. Evolution was the first life sciences topic two of my co-teachers and I decided to focus on. For my section, the monks developed an experiment to test the hypothesis, a small piece of Darwin’s pie, that the environment affects organisms’ life characteristics…