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Double Helix: Science & Religion as Cultural Kindling; A Response to The New Republic

By Arri Eisen

…ntroduce her from all angles. I do not mean teach creationism in a science class or endorse stem-cell therapy in a church. Don’t teach creationism, teach about creationism, recognize it, use it as a teaching opportunity. To not do this exacerbates the very statistics about Americans cited by Coyne; we need to do this because of those statistics. When we do, people actually learn better, see that there are usually more than simply two sides to an a…

AIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…VI, who is after all, simply one link in a charismatic chain. By contrast, American teens fainted in the presence of the Beatles because they were…. well, because they were the Beatles. There was no office to hold, and they did not belong to the machine. Not yet. (John Lennon never did, and George Harrison never cared to try; Ringo signed on pretty early, and Paul, well, Paul is a figure about whom fans continue to disagree). Weber had a distinctl…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…the prayer or lead the prayer. But if students want to get together before class or after school or at recess or whenever to pray, they can. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I was hoping to write a book that would be attractive to all sorts of people who are interested in religion, law, politics, education, etc. Two particular groups I hope will read the book are atheists and other nonbelievers who don’t like religion, becaus…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…se events as a college student in the early 1980s. Paul Weyrich will be greatly missed by conservative Christians across this nation. He worked tirelessly behind the scenes to advance the conservative agenda.” Grover Norquist, president of the anti-regulatory conservative Americans for Tax Reform, said “Ideas alone do not have consequences. Ideas, even—or especially—powerful ideas are like seeds. If they land in fertile soil and are cultivated, th…

Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…. Barton goes on to write that these five points are key to what he calls “American Exceptionalism”: Students must understand that American Exceptionalism is the result of the five distinctive ideas set forth in the first three lines of the Declaration and subsequently secured in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Separation? There is a confounding literal-mindedness to Christian fundamentalism. Just as the Bible is the inerrant word of God, the…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e opposition around them. The idea for the book came in 1998 when I took a class in the martial art of Aikido. There are no offensive moves in Aikido—no kicks or punches. There are only defensive moves—using the momentum of your attacker to disable them. I thought it served as an excellent metaphor for “spiritual self-defense” for LGBT Christians. I also came across the Bible verse that became central to the book, 1 Peter 3:15-16: “Always be ready…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…part campaign memoir, part policy statement, and partly a challenge to all Americans to stop being so fat, lazy, and mean. But mostly it is a means for Huckabee to settle scores with all those who failed to support his candidacy, see its genius and, consequently, to save America from itself. More “Touched By an Angel” than “Desperate Housewives” From the very beginning, Huckabee makes no effort to conceal his disdain for his presidential rivals an…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…y who claimed the pulpit as their gendered birthright. Whether in Oakland, Atlanta or Russia she reached beyond the African American community and across gender lines to teach what W.E.B. DuBois suggested over a hundred years ago, “The black preacher is the most unique personality developed by the Negro on American soil.” Rev. Ella P. Mitchell did this like none other. May her unmistakable Christian witness live on in the lives of those blessed by…

RDBook: Christian Culture Clash

By Krista Kapralos

…and, to some extent, boring. It’s somewhat sophisticated and upper-middle class aesthetics. The sermons mention scholarship and Time Magazine as much as it mentions the Bible. Are northwest evangelical churches aligned with the religious right? With evangelicals, we never found a theocrat or a fascist. They’re very loyal to certain politicians, but very suspicious of politics. Some evangelical pastors were exceptionally critical of the politician…

Op-Ed: Ramadan and Religious Freedom

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…incompatible with American values. The Pew Research Center has found that American Muslims are mostly middle-class and mainstream; Islam is one of many American faiths. During the Ramadan that fell in December of 2001, Pope John Paul II urged Christians to fast for one day in solidarity with Muslims. I was so moved that I felt a rush of gratitude and awe. The “solidarity fast“ was evidence that, instead of using Ramadan—a holiday that reminds us…