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Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…cy theories. Lieberman? In a word, it’s a shanda. He’s Exhibit A in What’s Wrong With the Christian Zionist-Jewish Political Alliance: Jews who lionize religious demagogues to put a “godly” imprimatur on their refusal to support an end to the occupation, all while acquiescing to the stoking of apocalyptic panic. Will he compare Beck to Moses, too? The American right freaked out recently over the Obama administration’s stance on Israel-Palestine. M…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…s published in 2006) to comment on an important work—and they still get it wrong. A first-year graduate student could have handled the analysis in a week. S/he would have figured out that Dr. Farley was dealing with ethical method (how we frame and approach moral questions), not defending the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Grawemeyer Award committee that chose Margaret for that prestigious and generous prize ($200,000 is real money in the t…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…tical option. We should not underestimate the gravity of this crisis. On a Wrong Road? Turn Back! Given where things stand, we must do three things. First, we must realize the danger of uncritically maintaining the status quo in the Middle East and North Africa. These protests may not go anywhere, but the discontent that feeds them will in that case only increase, meaning the eventual social explosion will be all the more terrifying—not to mention…

Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally

By Hussein Rashid

…hobia industry, they were expected to be there. It goes to show how normal, and extreme, the hate has become. More worrisome is how elected officials not only do not see anything wrong with this, but are willing to throw out the Constitution to prove that they think Muslims need to be exterminated like vermin….

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…ishing of Jewish religiosity. However, they would be—and we certainly were—wrong on all of those points! Next, most people would think that most of the Jewish and Asian couples we spoke with were the stereotype of a white Ashkenazi Jewish man and an Asian/Asian-American woman, but when we initially reached out across the country for possible interviewees the more than 200 surveys we received were split almost evenly on gender lines. We weren’t exp…

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…es multiple references to bloggers getting the theology of heaven and hell wrong. A man who can barely make out a banner headline almost certainly does not follow blogs. Claims of Graham’s authorship of Where I Am are already shaky, then, before one even considers the book’s content. Graham biographer (and, full disclosure, this author’s graduate advisor) Grant Wacker deems the book’s emphasis on hell entirely out of step with Graham’s mature theo…

Why The Religious Left Isn’t Coming Together, and Why It Matters

By Daniel Schultz

…nservatives may know that killing an unborn child is always and everywhere wrong, but liberals know that women need to make sometimes agonizing choices with the assistance of medical professionals, and they don’t want outside interference in that process, regardless of their own convictions on abortion. You can call this secular, especially if you can’t quite bring yourself to believe that God would ever accept abortion as a moral option. The poin…

Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right

By Jake Johnson

…oth are fantasies, both are adaptations of history, and both get the story wrong. It’s the wrongness of both stories that I think makes them worth talking about. In fact, the headlines bury the lede: musical theater connects the secular Left and the Christian Right. How? In my book Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America, I investigate how religious communities like Door McAllen Church use musicals to practice a for…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…o hell, psychological instability of returning veterans with unprecedented numbers committing suicide, veteran services stretched thin—these are only a few items that come to mind though they only scratch the surface of the psychic, social, and cultural scars inflicted by this war. Historically and across cultures, warfare is often the most religious event in the life of any society. Is it any different here, in America, with this war? The patriot…

Blaming the Listener: NPR’s Non-Apology

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gel and Gudenkauf clearly worked hard on this story. They simply made some wrong assumptions about what most of us know about sexuality and conversion.” But they should have worked harder—the fault here does not lie with their audience. The fundamental pieces that were missed are numerous, but the first one is rather glaring. Spiegel is a health reporter, not a religion reporter. This is important because the “debate” over “reparative therapy” in…