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Religious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…esman. A high school band director in Alabama has been accused of coercing students to attend a concert at a Baptist church and routinely leading a class in prayer. School officials deny the claim. The Associated Press reports Pope Benedict XVI will likely apologize “for the church’s handling of clerical sexual abuse cases when he attends a meeting of the world’s clergy in June.” In Britain, a Foreign Office memo was leaked mocking the Pope’s visi…

Does The Supreme Court’s Religious Composition Matter?

By Sarah Posner

…really wants to take over the Supreme Court, it should start sending more students to Harvard Law School. While the religion of Supreme Court justices shouldn’t matter, and there most certainly shouldn’t be a religious litmus test of any kind (including a litmus test for religious belief or affiliation), I was curious enough to take a look at this handy guide to the religion of Supreme Court justices. You have to go back nearly 150 years to find…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…of God in all worldly matters. Followers of Van Til (including his former students Bahnsen and Rousas John Rushdoony, and Rushdoony’s son-in-law, Gary North) adopted this “presuppositionalism” as a doctrine, with all its implications for the role of religion in political life. Recapturing Institutions for Jesus Reconstruction writers regard the history of Protestant politics since the early years of the Reformation as having taken a bad turn, and…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…State claimed that homosexuality, not celibacy, was the cause of the high number of pedophilia cases in the Church. The Vatican issued a long overdue policy Monday that bishops must report sex abuse cases, but it did not impose a zero tolerance policy similar to what is in place in the U.S. Focus on the Family was for the possibility of a gay Supreme Court nominee before they were against it. Televangelist Joyce Meyer condemned the Uganda Anti-Ga…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…aeli public opinion poll that found that 56% of Israeli Jewish high school students polled did not think that Israeli Arabs are entitled to the full rights of citizenry. But despite the pessimistic tone taken by many, the organizers—committed to peaceful conflict resolution—ended the forum by announcing a series of lectures, tours, and encounters that would introduce Israeli Jews to the lives and concerns of their non-Jewish neighbors. And, somewh…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…hich culminates in doing a social project. (Canfei Nesharim was started by students at YCC.) This is truly a revolutionary change. What does it look like? What does it mean? Social Activist Jews Studying Talmud? On a Sunday morning in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, twenty people gather around a table to study Jewish texts. The texts are out of the classical canon: the Bible, of course, but also the third-century Mishnah and its sixth-cen…

Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…costumes. If you want to know about the real deal, my post is here and the students’ here. As for Caprica, othering is so pervasive that it constitutes the basis of most relationships. Capricans other Taurons, polytheists other monotheists, and Sam Adama others anyone he has to kill. Likewise, gender performances belie the easy androgyny that marked BSG. In Caprica, masculinity is the exercise of controlled power. Tomas Vergis is a pro, Joe Adama…

Creationist-Leaning Texas Sets Textbook Agenda

By Lauri Lebo

…exas is not the only place where folks strive to foster ignorance in their students. While it’s been quiet there the past few months, Louisiana also continues to battle creationist attacks on the teaching of evolution. In 2008, state lawmakers passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which specifically targets “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning” as subjects in which educators are required to “promote critical thi…

Yearning For A God We Can Live With

By Benjamin Weiner

…ichaelson stands in a proud line of Jews who have been anything but casual students. Everything is God represents one of the more erudite attempts to situate nondualistic insights in Jewish material. At its core lies the fact that Judaism, being a “theistic” tradition, makes use of the word “God,” which, following certain esoteric doctrines of the Kabbalah, Michaelson associates with the essential unity of nondualism. “To be sure,” he writes, “th…

Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical: Nothing Happens

By Eric Reitan

…rly illuminating. Wilson clearly hopes that conservative Christian college students (and others), when confronted with intellectual challenges to their faith, will not treat these challenges as invitations to critically reflect for themselves on the merits of their beliefs. Instead, they ought to replay Wilson’s polemics in their heads. At another point in the interview, Piper asks Wilson about “copiousness,” which turns out to be something Wilson…