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There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…cts, images of a white dude who is supposed to be Jesus, and so on and on. Numbers appear through this book, sometimes with numbing frequency and volume. Thousands of Bibles in the early years of the ABS; tens of thousands some decades later; millions and millions through the course of the twentieth century. The numbers document the stunning capacity of the ABS to flood the zone with Scriptures. Through the book, the ABS accomplished exactly that…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…est amount in tax as a share of our personal income (17%) than we have at any time since 1971. It goes without saying that he could and should emphasize that taxes will not be going up for any but the very wealthiest—that cuts affecting working and middle-class families will be extended. As for the “job killer” rhetoric of Sen. Hatch and the rest, the president could actually have some fun poking holes in the fantastical idea that handing rich a…

I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…each in accordance with and not contrary to the Baptist Faith & Message,” any professor of color who seeks to understand the religion from their particular social location is muzzled. Denying those on Mohler’s margins the right to speak, the right to question, the right to challenge at his campus only reinforces the white privilege of controlling the conversation—what can be said, and what cannot. The search is on to recruit Black and Brown faces…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…e cosmological, the teleological. Also arguments against the existence of any God, given the wretched state of affairs down here on planet Earth, who could simultaneously be omniscient, omnipotent, and all-loving. I don’t remember the details. What I do remember are his questions, which cut through all the higher philosophical claptrap and jangled our nerves. He would look directly into our eyes and ask in his soft Irish accent, Who are you? Do…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…ar-old pastor who is the ultimate man of God and then, this 16-year-old horny boy who couldn’t keep himself together.” Add charges of hush money, and we find ourselves in very familiar territory. Scandal! Hypocrisy! This past Sunday, the Rev. Brady Boyd, who took over from Haggard as senior pastor of New Life Church in the wake of the first revelations back in 2006, stood in front of his congregation, visibly anxious, to announce that “the wound h…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…ersity has done by firing a vulnerable adjunct professor, a move that, if anything, further stokes divisiveness and Islamophobia in society. The message that Hamline has sent is that Muslims are an intolerant people who don’t value freedom of expression. And so, another example of a corporation indulging in PR damage control will be widely perceived as appeasement of an “intransigent” community. Additionally, the university’s tactic reduces all Mu…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…ink of it as the aura of a truly fearless human being. There aren’t that many. You got the sense that he had done the intellectual and spiritual work at such a deep level that it was in his bones. A telltale sign: when Howard began his Judson work, 99% of working clergy had no real feeling for artists, and most were even slightly afraid of them as some kind of alien species. Howard not only loved all artists but he gravitated toward the edgiest an…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e was unnecessary. He said “all you have to do is walk into a 7-Eleven or any shop on any street in America and have access to them.” Opponents of the mandate have consistently belittled the idea that contraceptives are a significant health care cost for women despite the fact that, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, birth control comprises between 30 and 44 percent of women’s out-of-pocket health care spending. For marginalized groups, th…

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

…aders caught up in sex scandals, and most commentators predicted this same cheap grace for Falwell when he was recently forced to take an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty after posting a picture of himself with his pants unzipped, his arm around the waist of a similarly (un)dressed woman who was not his wife, and a glass of something that looked suspiciously like alcohol in his hand. According to two experts on evangelicals and gender, how…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…eview, philosopher Thomas Nagel chides Brooks for believing and endorsing any old piece of data presented by a cognitive scientist, “however idiotic.” And, so, it seems important (to me) to underscore the extent to which Brooks is echoing and imitating the destiny-shaping ambitions of old school humanists like Rousseau. Indeed, a related article that Brooks recently penned for The New Yorker suggests that his synthesis of scientific research and f…