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Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…il engineering from UC Berkeley, but felt his true calling was as a Bible teacher. He taught the Bible at his Dutch Calvinist church in Alameda, California, the Christian Reformed Church—starting in the 1940s while he was still a university student. He started Family Radio in 1958 to reach a wider audience with his teaching—a deep conviction that nothing was accidental or coincidental in the Bible and that it was a unified, logical whole. Camping…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…ed from a humanist, spiritual-but-not-religious perspective. They engaged readers with Montgomery’s core belief, illustrating again and again a central value of human agency and responsibility. “It’s finally saying to you, you’re involved,” Montgomery said in one of the few interviews he did on the subject. “What are you doing and why are you making these choices?” Montgomery, who died late last year at his home in Vermont, was largely known for h…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…Roman Catholic theology and knew that the church made no exception to its teaching that Catholics could never use artificial methods of contraception. The only acceptable form of birth control for Catholics, both then and now, is natural family planning, which relies on calculating a women’s infertile period during her menstrual cycle and only having sex on those days. The “rhythm method,” as natural family planning was called in the early 1960s,…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…tor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014. Vincent Gordon Harding Historian and theologian Vincent Gordon Harding died at 82. Harding founded Atlanta’s Mennonite House with his wife Rosemarie in 1961, a headquarters for…

Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included

By Andrew Aghapour

…lities. If we consider autism a natural part of the cognitive spectrum instead of a contemporary disorder, we could shift our focus from magic bullet cures to more meaningful modes of assistance and care. (The Lovaas model, for example, involves education and behavioral training within customized environments.) Why Science Needs Neurodiversity Silberman also tells the story of a second historical group: the progenitors of bad autism science. If Ne…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…attained fame by blasting the moral idealism of liberal Protestant church leaders. In the 1920s he chafed at Social Gospel idealism while calling for more of it, not knowing what else to say. In the 1930s he urged church leaders to throw off their moralism to join the class struggle against a dying capitalist order. In the 1940s he urged church leaders to throw off their moralism to support the armed struggle against Fascism. In the 1950s he urged…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…Roman Catholic theology and knew that the church made no exception to its teaching that Catholics could never use artificial methods of contraception. The only acceptable form of birth control for Catholics, both then and now, is natural family planning, which relies on calculating a women’s infertile period during her menstrual cycle and only having sex on those days. The “rhythm method,” as natural family planning was called in the early 1960s,…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…Silence: Essays 1958-1966 that “We come after. We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.” 2001’s Grammars of Creation was an idiosyncratic, almost Kabbalistic theory of what in the context of art and literature the word “creation” could possibly mean, going beyond both materialist explanations and conservative reductionism. The critic’s…

What’s In A Bible Version? Trump’s Choice of Photo-Op Bible Tells its Own Story

By Daniel Schultz

…sm for an unpopular president given to bouts of authoritarianism, but I already know. It was Ivanka, apparently trying to cheer Daddy up after bad press about his weekend stay in the White House bunker. She even dutifully toted the prop Bible along in her $1500 purse. And what a Bible it was! Despite some scuttle on Twitter that Trump was holding it upside-down, you can clearly see in photos by Washington Post journalist Sergio Peçanha that he doe…

Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)

By Anne Linstatter

…prayers failed. She lived a long and healthy life, born in 1932 and dying peacefully on September 25 at her home in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. Today her 2001 book Omnigender: a Trans-Religious Approach (Pilgrim, 2001) continues to give hope to transsexual and transgender Christians such as Sister Paula Nielsen and David Weekley, the first openly transgender clergy serving the United Methodist Church. “S/he opened so many doors for so many people,…