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“Profound Delight in Being”: Remembering John Hick

By Amir Dastmalchian

…equented. The gathered sat in the U-shaped rows of the spacious hall, constructed in 1970, with bare white walls and high ceilings. The pipes of an organ dominated one corner of the room. The service followed the Quaker custom of a series of addresses (including video messages from Keith Ward and Desmond Tutu) and then an extended period of silence. The gathered were then invited to reflect and, if they desired, to share their reflections or to re…

Web 8.0: The Return of the Human

By Beatrice Marovich

…’t God (or the gods) rather akin to a “pimply faced nerd in the sky who is running a cosmic copy of The Sims, who are us”? The concept of a fabricated (but divine) creation is no more thrilling than a video game. Addressing the intensifying religion-and-science debates several years ago, he charged that it’s futile for scientists to get deeply involved in debates over the existence of a God. “People are afraid to die,” he wrote frankly, “and they…

The “Pro-Family” Crowd Should Welcome Polygamy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t of those who are single with children: “If you’re single you get nothing today, you get no benefits. If you’re single with kids you’re at the low end of the totem pole,” Ingraham said. Which, of course, begs the question that if you’re so concerned about single people with children, why are “pro-family” legislators so intent on cutting or eliminating every single government benefit single parents may get? Note to Ingraham: If you want single peo…

Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…cceptable to kill newborns, infants, even toddlers. It’s not true, but the rumors are taken for fact. They are reported as news and treated as outrageous and, at the same time, just what one would expect. Pro-choicers, the story goes, are slipping down their slippery slope all the way to infanticide. Links are then shared and re-shared regularly in on- and offline social networks. The most recent example popping up on social media is a report from…

Atheists Who Don’t Like “Under God” Can Leave

By Rob Shryock

…place in his broad vision of American religion, emphasizing in 1957 the “fruitful relationship” between Christians and Muslims, which was quite progressive for the time. Unfortunately, Eisenhower’s idea of the religious basis of American Democracy has historically denied true political legitimacy to atheists. And even as American atheism has been totally disassociated with communism, the idea that atheists aren’t real Americans has persisted. …

Can Jewish Funds for Justice Oust Glenn Beck?

By Joanna Brooks

…campaign delivering more than 10,000 letters calling for Beck’s ouster to Rupert Murdoch at Fox News headquarters. Last April, JFSJ launched a “twitterstorm” against Beck’s comments on social justice. And as we reported here at RD last fall, JFSJ first voiced strong concern about Beck’s anti-semitism in response to Beck’s malicious attack on Holocaust survivor George Soros, who Beck called a “Puppet Master” and accused of conspiring with Nazis….

Doubting Ourselves Through the AZ Shooting

By Julie Ingersoll

…I’m guessing few readers of RD know what those who get their news from Fox News know: there was a similar fundraising appeal from the Democratic Leadership committee in 2004, only with bullseyes instead of crosshairs. I am sympathetic to the counter-arguments that it not the same because liberals don’t bring guns to rallies and so on but debating who is right about this gets us nowhere. Worse yet, we end up sounding like kindergarteners arguing ov…

Christian-Bashing Air Force Officer Story is Just That

By Rob Shryock

It seemed a dream story for the Christian right. A Fox News article titled “Airmen Punished for Objecting to Gay Marriage,” tells the story of Lackland Air Force Base’s Phillip Monk, who, according to his own testimony, stood up for a military trainer who had publicly announced his disapproval of gay marriage. His superior, who Monk notes is “openly a lesbian,” wanted the trainer punished, which led to a rift that eventually caused Monk to be “re…

CPCs Hire Christians Only With Federal Funds? Thank Obama

By Sarah Posner

…gainst Religious Discrimination, Obama has refused to eliminate the hiring rule, opting instead for a vague “case-by-case” look at whether there has been discrimination in hiring or firing. What’s more, on the campaign trail he promised to strengthen constitutional protections in faith-based funding, but as the ACLU’s Dena Sher pointed out just last week, promised protocols to ensure that the constitutional rights of citizens served by taxpayer-fu…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…ver encountered it as a child. As president, Nixon amplified existing antidrug structures and reshaped national narratives, therefore it seems highly likely that he himself was influenced by Hobson’s work. There’s more: 1920s–1930s Los Angeles was also home to Daryl Gates, perhaps best remembered for his role as police chief during the 1992 unrest over police violence against Rodney King. Gates was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and would have grown…