Religion Dispatches
…mney. Dave thinks so—he says Jeffress is the outlandish demagogue sent via central casting that will turn off even evangelical opponents of a Mormon candidacy, but I’m not so sure. I think evangelicals will turn not on Jeffress, but rather on his critics, for reacting too harshly to what they believe is his truth-telling. Via Erik Eckholm at the New York Times, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler, whose views are conside…
Read More…and the mountain of solid science that depends on it. One of relativity’s central ideas is that nothing can travel faster than light. Related to this idea are a host of counterintuitive (and experimentally verified) results. Time and space are relative and not absolute. Your one mile is not one mile for everyone. Your one second is not one second for everyone. Twins, taking different paths through space and time, can rejoin one another only to di…
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…ns of society—not just the margins of Islam, but of the whole community—is central. These narratives of faith and wealth are the architectures of new dreams—not fantasies, but dreams—of an inclusive wholeness and a common stability. Thus, in each of the world religions, advocating on behalf of those harmed by oppression, exploitation, illness, or other circumstances that leave ordinary people in the dust is a basic faith practice. We are meant, in…
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…seen why such vagueness is indefensible. It seems to me that he fudges his central task—of convincing us that it could really happen—because he does not quite believe it himself. Rejecting the Fatalism of Conventional Wisdom So why, if I am right that he doesn’t quite believe in the practical possibility of Marxist revolution, does he advocate it? Because he sincerely believes in Marxism as a critical tool, as the authentic critical viewpoint. But…
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