Religion Dispatches
…hristians.” Now, obviously, Lane is close with the Perry camp. He played a central role in organizing and promoting The Response. His organizations have supported Perry, dating back to 2005 and his leadership of the Texas Restoration Project, which boosted Perry’s reelection race for governor. As the emails Coppins obtained make clear, he’s anti-Mormon. But there’s no evidence that he coordinated with the Perry campaign to put Jeffress front and c…
Read More…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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…science” were not yet anxious and antipathetic competitors. The spirit of republican individualism unleashed revolutionary forces that would lead to the execution of a king, an atrociously violent civil war, the Cromwellian protectorate, a restored monarchy and the eventual institution of a Bill of Rights of sorts under the aegis of a “Glorious Revolution” in 1688. On the far side of the Atlantic, these same forces, grounded in the rejection of t…
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…rceptive review and publishes it, I am on the verge of giving out hugs for free. But sometimes another feeling settles in… a quiet desperation when—after having written one’s fingers numb to make a fairly simple but important point—that very point has not gotten across. Jake Meador’s review, online at Christianity Today, is a case in point. I truly appreciate the favorable things he has to say like “Schweizer has written an engrossing history.” At…
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