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The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ed so much of American culture even as it was consumed by it, one needs to talk about the whole world. * * * A former Christian Science Monitor political reporter, Ariel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise, grew up with a different dying language. His father is among the last living native speakers of Aramaic, which until the middle years of the 20th century survived as the language of Kurdish Jews in Iraq. Setting off to his father’s homeland a…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…piritual way. Who’s to say that the frequent churchgoers responded to “God-talk” or religious outreach, as opposed to the candidate’s way of speaking which so clearly distinguished him from the hairsplitting, technocratic Kerry, whose defeat was frequently blamed on a reluctance to talk about his Catholicism? Regardless of the unproven electoral benefits of Democrats flaunting faith, all these efforts have had another outcome: elevating the profil…

Christian Nationalists Didn’t Seek to Desecrate the Capitol But to Purify It

By Adam Willems

…t show them the light, if we just give them the facts, they’ll go home and talk about President Biden as the real president. That approach underestimates people’s creativity and agency in thinking about the world, as well as the ability people have to resist dominant narratives and piece together things that make sense to them—and cling to them. I think it’s dangerous to dismiss everyone on January 6 as an outlier, crazy, or mad, as if they’ll get…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…rist as ‘our savior,’” and “went further than any recent prime minister in talking about his Christian faith publicly.” Cameron subsequently penned an opinion piece for Church Times, in which he elaborated: Some people feel that in this ever more secular age we shouldn’t talk about these things. I completely disagree. I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role of faith-bas…

Updated: Religious People Not Monolithic!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…[Editor’s Note: After this post went up I received an email from Focus on the Family’s newsletter, Citizenlink, telling the story of a woman whose former wife is seeking custody of their daughter, Isabella. Citizenlink…

In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?

By Ivan Strenski

…What is really going on here? The Religion in… None of this would dismiss talking about CrossFit as “religion.” But, it would give such talk another look. Once we had offered a candidate for a plenary concept of religion, even Linker’s as an example, we might open up an entirely new area of inquiry into those phenomena that resembled this plenary sense, but did not fully contain all the necessary properties. I would call these the cases of the “r…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…r a very long time. Maybe they have to now. It seems it’s almost easier to talk about gay marriage than it is to talk about Black Lives Matter. And I hate saying that, but I think it’s true, because I think that white Americans are more complicit in the continuing oppression of black and brown people than we can ever want to say we are. When it comes to letting our gay kids get married, we’re going there, because they’re our kids. That distance be…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…the actual stirrings among religious progressives. BB: There has been some talk about a so-called resurrection of the “religious left“ in this country. What is the mainstream media referring to when it talks about a “religious left“? How do you see the development of an authentic “religious left?“ FC: The religious left ballyhooed by the media seems to consist of a few moderate evangelical authors, plus Jim Wallis, Rabbi Michael Lerner; some small…

The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters

By Kristin Swenson

…it’s easy to overlook and forget how very strange it is. For one thing, we talk about it as one thing. But there are actually several different Bibles. Among them is the Jewish Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, which is (arranged in a different order) either the whole or part (depending on which stripe of Christian we’re talking about) of a Christian Old Testament, which composes the bulk but not entirety of Christian Bibles, which also include a New Testam…

RDGenerations: Religion in the Academy

By Lucia Hulsether

…s, and about teaching. The chance to listen in on father-daughter religion talk struck us here at RD as a unique opportunity. In this first installment of what we hope will be an ongoing feature, Lucia and her father Mark talk about what it’s like to study and teach religion in the Bible belt, about referring to God as “She,” and about the theory that Obama may be the antichrist—we are so glad they have agreed to share their correspondence wit…