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Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…ips. According to the tricky and treacherous text of the final book in the New Testament, the book of Revelation, when the end time of the world dawns, a scroll with seven seals will be opened. With each seal a new horror will be unleashed against humanity. First, a great dragon will appear; this is later identified with Satan. Next will emerge a monstrous beast ominously rearing its seven heads and ten horns. Finally, a servant of this beast will…

RD Book: Faith and Faithfulness

By Diane Winston

The Party Faithful, Amy Sullivan’s new book is a must-read for academics, journalists, and just about anyone interested in the recent entwining of American politics and religion. In lucid, elegant prose, Sullivan explains where we are today (or were pre-2008) with Republicans claiming to be God’s Own Party while atheists, secular humanists, and other ‘others’ found safe haven in the Democratic party. Sullivan begins her account of how the Democra…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

You remember the set-up for the old story. A single joke-book circulates in a prison. Since everyone knows it by heart, there’s no need the recite the whole joke. Prisoners can just call out the joke’s number to provoke raucous laughter. Or not—because some people just can’t tell a joke. Some days I wonder whether we shouldn’t adopt a similar system for church arguments about homosexuality. Not the raucous laughter (though there are plenty of cau…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…the novel is, in the judgment of some scholars of early Islam, neither well-researched nor well-written. One of the modern scholars, whose reading of Jones’ manuscript for the press started much of the criticism, is a professor of early Islam who has written about Aisha (Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of Aisha bint Abi Bakr). Denise Spellberg, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, is reported to have objected to th…

The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

By Murali Balaji

…anding ramifications for America’s racial and religious landscape, Joshi’s new book White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America takes a blowtorch to the long-held idea that all Americans have equal access to religious freedom and shows how White Christian privilege subordinates religious and racial minority groups. She took some time to discuss the book with RD contributor Murali Balaji. This interview has been edited…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

I will not see The Help. Because of all the “You’ve-got-to-read-about-these-black-women” that was made of it, I did purchase and read Kathryn Stockett’s book. I was skeptical because of the title, and because I learned it was a book by a white woman about black women servants. These details immediately brought to mind thoughts of the movie The Long Walk Home (the 1990 drama starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg) and NBC’s series I’ll Fly Away…

A Nazi, a Jewish Prisoner, and a “Magic” Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong

By Julia Seymour

…al realism, a Bible appears and she learns to find some consolation in the New Testament—instead of in the Hebrew Scriptures of her childhood. All ends with a happily ever after as our lovely Jewess marries the Nazi commandant, who helps Jews escape the camp in question. Presumably, they raise lovely blond Christian children. I think I need to wash my hands after typing that. The to-do over this book is that many, many people—Jews and non-Jews—bel…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ok with an odd title. The translation renders Friedrich Christian Lesser’s book as Insecto-theology: Or A Demonstration Of The Being And Perfections Of God, From A Consideration Of The Structure And Economy Of Insects. Insecto-theology. What word and imagination. The book sits as a note in the annals of natural theology, and revels for hundreds of pages in the intricacies and glories of insects. The book meditates on human relationships with them,…

Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)

By Eric C. Miller

…as shown that the concept of a traditional family—breadwinning father, stay-at-home mother, and children who enjoy a lengthy and protected childhood—is a fiction. In fact, even idealizing this version of the traditional family is a fairly recent phenomenon. Democrats in the 1970s agreed with Republicans that they ought to promote families, but they wanted to broaden the concept of family to include single-parent families, multi-generational househ…

Controversial Feminist Theologian Speaks at Nuns’ Final Assembly Without Vatican Oversight

By Patricia Miller

…e,” and that “[d]espite my efforts to give and get clarification,” the face-to-face meeting that she sought with the bishops was denied: It seems the committee reduced the rich Catholic tradition to a set of neo-scholastic theses as narrow as baby ribbon, and then criticized the book for not being in accord with them. But as Richard Gaillardetz said in this year’s presidential address to the Catholic Theological Society of America, the committee’s…