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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…say and the many angry responses to it. The president of the university, Joel Seligman, said that Gandhi’s statements about Israel and Jewish identity were “fundamentally inconsistent with the core values” of the university and requested his resignation. For many readers the posting’s parenthetical remark about a culture of violence in which “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” was the most offensive line in the essay. Also troubling to m…

Religious Right Panic: “Anarchy” will Result if DADT is Repealed

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd water. The question we should be asking ourselves is whether you would tell somebody putting themselves in harm’s way for you that they should be denied the spiritual counsel of their chaplain and their God as they are looking at death. There are several underlying assumptions going on here. One is the false dichotomy of gays versus God. There are plenty of gay and lesbian Christians in the world, and some of them even serve in the military. Be…

Know-Nothing Christians Irate Over Obama Comments

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…why this was so: because we do not derive our foreign policy from exclusively religious or Scriptural sources. Rather we have “a set of ideals and values” enshrined in other founding documents: the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In short, President Obama assured his audience that we have nothing to fear from each other, and that we have a great deal in common. Such was the peace-making message of this…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer,” Hazel tells us. Green, who is now the parent of two children, told The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot, that his own experience with anxiety has its benefits: “from a novelist’s perspective, the ability to cycle through all the possibilities and choose the worst is very helpful.” I take this quote seriously, but in other interviews and in the words of Hazel’s parents, he expresse…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…e got on my hip.” And I was thinking, “that’s right, you don’t want to be self-reliant for anything, do you. You’re a little liberal to the core, liberals want the government to do everything for them,” and certainly it starts with the protection of life, the most important thing an individual can do. Let me just give you an example—this goes on year after year—Dr. Paul has been a consistent promoter of Second Amendment legislation. He’s already m…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…n’t answer everything. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they are not actively promoting the use of “supplemental materials” like pro-intelligent design textbooks such as Pandas and People, used in Dover, and its follow-up, The Design of Life. Evangelicals may not realize it, but such an approach is a risky strategy. It’s not just bad science, it’s bad theology. Such dichotomy forces students to choose between faith and science. After Dover’s tria…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…gion writers listened to Sarah Palin’s convention address expecting heavy religious code, the scriptural allusions that have come to be standard fare in speeches by Republicans and Barack Obama. There wasn’t much—“a servant’s heart,” a prayer for her son sent off to war. But there was, for those with ears to hear it, a far more disturbing allusion: to Westbrook Pegler, a mid-century Rush Limbaugh, and then some. At the height of his popularity, he…

“Traditional” Marriage or a Break with Tradition?

By Stephanie Coontz

…nd religious history of Western marriage. It is true that Western law and religion have long held that marriage must consist of one man and one woman. But this represented a profound break with tradition. The most commonly preferred model of marriage through the ages (and the type of marriage mentioned most often in the first five books of the Old Testament) was not one-man, one-woman, but one-man, many-women: polygyny. Even where polygyny was not…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…n violence in the U.S., as intimated by President Barack Obama, is unparalleled anywhere else in the world; it defines a uniquely American experience. The gun is one of the American gods, and its holy canon is the Second Amendment. We look through the warped window of the religion of America and find guns affixed to its throbbing heart. In 2013, Public Religion Research Institute reported that only 38 percent of white evangelical Protestants favor…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…son-based thinking on every conceivable topic of human interest—including religion and religious dogma. As such, conservative Christian teachings are not immune to the academy’s critical attention. But for those who view these teachings as identical with the revealed truth of God, such critical attention will be seen as nothing but hubris; nothing but the vaunting of human pride over God’s word. Learning is, in this view, a spiritual vulnerabili…