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2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…ling conferences, meeting what they call “one of [their] primary goals: to promote the restoration of the biblical family.” They see the “home schooling community as central to this effort [and] seek to encourage home schooling parents to faithfully disciple their children.” In response to the 50th anniversary of the release of “the Pill,” they “celebrated the blessing and preciousness of life amidst a culture of death, by hosting a Baby Conferenc…

Abortion and the Stories Clergy Tell

By Dennis S. Ross

…gh sorrowful stories that my denominational professional organization, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, endorsed access to birth control in 1929 and cooperation with Planned Parenthood in 1947. As the decades passed, we, and clergy from other religious groups, demanded access to reproductive health care, including abortion. We weren’t dismissive of the woman’s pregnancy. Rather, we affirmed that the moral high ground is in a woman’s deci…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…in his life and it had a deep impact on him.) And yet, the image offers a profound meditation on the power of death, that “dark insolent, and senselessly eternal power.” The picture becomes, like so many before and after, a point of great healing, compassion, and understanding about this central, paradoxical thing that Christians hold dear: Incarnation. Now, in the time of Advent, a time of reflection on the in-flesh-ment of the divine in a human…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…almost like denying the faith.” Let’s Get Visceral Despite an overwhelming Republican victory, the 2010 elections were not an unequivocal victory for the “pro-Israel” voices in the GOP or in the United States. Traditional Republicans will be as strident as ever about supporting “our only democratic ally in the Middle East,” but the Tea Party candidates’ position on Israel remains an open question as many libertarians favor isolationist policies. S…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…ience. In the Dark Ages, contrary to what most people think, science was central to the lives of monks, kings, emperors, and even popes. It was the mark of true nobility and the highest form of worship of God. Is there anything you had to leave out? A marvelous side effect of writing a book like this one that is outside my comfort zone of knowledge was that I had to ask for help. I found it in Barcelona, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Monistrol-su…

War on Christmas, War on Schmistmas, Happy Holiday

By Julie Ingersoll

…e who needs it and pay special attention to requests from those in need on freecycle. (If you don’t know freecycle check it out; it’s the coolest). In both cases, I reflect on the realization that I don’t do enough of that during the rest of the year. I donate money to charity and take “stuff” to Hospice. I take in a rescue dog about to be euthanized, training him so he can join a family whose home he will fill with love (a gift to him and to them…

A Philosopher of Religion Calls it Quits

By Julia Galef

…values, and relationships, changing one’s mind is a daunting prospect. The central point of contention—the existence of God—is most fraught of all, not to mention starkly binary. “In philosophy of religion you do have this gap—either God exists or not. There’s no middle ground,” Parsons says. However, even philosophers bent on keeping their core beliefs can help move discussions forward. As in other subfields, much of philosophy of religion consis…

Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination

By Michael J. Altman

…perity and human rights for the West. Beijing is claiming that the Chinese central government will approve the nomination of the next Dalai Lama. Though the current Dalai Lama doesn’t see himself going anywhere anytime soon: “Even at this age, I find time for my Buddhist studies that give me strength, peace, happiness and keep me in good health.” Two deaths of note: Nasr Abu Zayd, an Egpytian scholar known for his liberal and critical approach to…

‘Rome is Gay’

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…a cemetery all over again. And tomorrow that same Pyramid will become the central symbol and staging area for an ancient-style Roman triumph celebrating a very modern kind of gay pride. And one day after that, some thousands of miles away, citizens in the United States celebrated something else with parades: their independence, their freedom from undue oppression and interference in their personal affairs. It can be overwhelming, this palimpsesti…

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…among these are the continued US and NATO military presence in Afghanistan and the extensive US military campaign in Pakistan that is believed to have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Pakistani civilians in air strikes. Even within the original al Qaeda bin Laden has probably not played a central operational role for many years, though he remained an influential voice and symbol. The organization has cultivated a new set of charismatic leader…