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Sure, Evangelical Numbers are Steady… But at What Cost?

By Jonathan Orbell

…he latter. If we assume the phenomenon is largely generational, then those looking to affect change within the evangelical camp need only wait until the oppositional strategy falls out of fashion. If, however, there are other, social-psychological reasons for believers to adopt approaches like Shrum’s, we may be waiting for a long while. More broadly, articles like Shrum’s are further evidence of the fact that evangelicals need to conduct some ser…

Good News For Bad News Addicts

By J.J. Goldberg

…ge. That turned out to be wrong, too. And again, nobody noticed. Now comes news that Jews actually number 6.3 million, or maybe 6.7 million, proving…that we’re increasing? That the previous surveys were off by a million? Where did things go right? Does anybody wonder? Not a chance. The hot news is that Jews are detaching from religion at a terrifying pace: 22 percent say they’re Jews without faith. At some point someone will remember that the same…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…, Romney seems reticent to discuss Jesus. Perhaps this is because he fears looking particularly at Jesus may expose tensions and differences between his Mormonism (and the Book of Mormon as “another testament” of Jesus Christ) and conservative evangelicals who battle all the time over their Bible, how to read it, and its importance. For various reasons (of course neither one could say this publicly) but I think Obama would go with the “Wales Windo…

Watching Man of Steel in Istanbul

By Haroon Moghul

…and a dream assignment for beleaguered Middle Eastern studies departments looking to convey how the clash of civilizations conversations is sustained—movies, as against books, are easier for our twitchy generations to process. And now another one! Snyder has—how can I explain the wonderfulness of this?—probably entirely inadvertently incubated a movie whose animating tension was settler colonialism, racism, and genocide; giving away much of the s…

Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…cies that, due to a trick of quantum physics, can only move when no one is looking (even if, as the title of “Blink” indicates, they’re only unobserved for a moment). The Weeping Angels are pretty darned scary, and “Blink”—written, incidentally, by new show-runner Stephen Moffat—was widely acclaimed, winning two BAFTAs and a Hugo. Needless to say, their return was much anticipated. There’s a bit of a parallel in this episode between the Angels and…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…h husbands or lovers” (p. 236). I am confident that this came as unwelcome news to many of the men gathered. But the fact that they would dwell on it speaks volumes about their ethics and their rapidly eroding power. Sexual power is power, and more and more women have it. Apparently the struggle to wrest it back is high on the agenda of those who live on the 110 acres called the Vatican. A more adequate understanding of Farley’s theological projec…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…the issue in that discussion largely surrounded the phenomenon of families looking, for better or ill, to borrow from other traditions’ toolkits. For interfaith families on the other hand, Passover and Easter, or “East-over” as my sister has taken to calling it, is, in many ways, more of a balancing act, as families seek to honor competing observances and traditions even as they try to steer clear of everything from anti-Semitism to the potentiall…

Quiz: How Would Jesus Respond to the Evolution Question?

By Paul Wallace

…by the powers that be. There would be a camera. Someone would stick a microphone in his face and ask, “Hey Jesus, Creation or evolution?” Question: Which of the following describes how Jesus would respond? (1) “Creation. Moses said it. I believe it. That settles it.” (2) “Evolution. Haven’t you morons taken biology?” (3) “Bring me those 70 million-year-old feathers encased in amber that were discovered a couple of weeks ago.” [Holding them up] “T…

Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)

By Becky Garrison

…ent Books) by Nadia Bolz-Weber For that holy hipster friend in search of a new kind of a/theistic Christianity who doesn’t want to go back and read the works of Phyllis Trible, John Boswell, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, bell hooks, and other pioneering scholars who’ve written on the intersection of human sexuality and Christianity for decades. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Vintage paperback issued in 2019) by Anand Gi…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…adison University and a chronicler of our peculiar dietary culture. In his new book, The Gluten Lie, Levinovitz digs into the fear and moralizing that surrounds dietary fads, including gluten avoidance and the MSG scare. Reached by Skype, Levinovitz spoke with The Cubit about paleo dieters, grain-free monks, and why Fitbit represents a cultural descent into profound moral vacuity. You’re a scholar of classical Chinese religions. How’d you end up w…