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

By Paul Harvey

…illustrated every day on his blog The Way of Improvement Leads Home. The book has already received two thoughtful and extensive reviews from the scholars Elesha Coffman and Candy Gunther Brown, at Religion in American History. In hopes of furthering the dialogue, what I’ve written here supplements rather than repeats some of what they’ve said there. The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society John Fea Oxford University Press April 5,…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…White House will end up conceding to the braying anti-tax forces. This looming fight offers a tremendous teachable moment for public ethics if President Obama would only seize it and lead us into a national conversation on the subject of wealth and taxes. Such a conversation could be filled with implicit theological content, inasmuch as what I like to call “good religion” has a big stake moderating extreme wealth for the sake of commonwealth pr…

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

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…cruit Black and Brown faces with white voices whose assimilation becomes proof-text proving that these six white men and their white institutions are not racist. As you probably know, Critical Race Theory understands racism not as biological, but as a social construct designed consciously or unconsciously to further the power, profit and privilege of white people. These constructs are naturalized and legitimized through social structures and insti…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…. The occasion for the profile is the upcoming release of his children’s book, The Magic of Reality. Near the bottom of the last page the article reads: [Dawkins] wants to raise questions—Why is there a sun? What is an earthquake? What about rainbows?—and provide clever, rational answers. He has toyed with opening his own state-sponsored school, though under the British system he would have to come up with matching money. But it would not be a s…

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

By J. Terry Todd

…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 has been re-opened.” Boyd said he had hoped the church “wouldn’t have to revisit the unpleasant parts of our past,” but at New Life as elsewhere, a buried past has a way of springing up…

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

By Junaid Jahangir

…ity, and Inclusion (EDI) is a cheap tactic if LGBTQ employees are treated poorly when it comes to pay, benefits, leave, promotion, and job security. Divide-and-rule is not a new tactic, for it’s well known in the Indian subcontinent that the British pitted one local Raja against the other based on tribe, religion, or caste—among other factors. The same applies to corporations as they stoke divisiveness in society by indulging in performative activ…

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

By Tom Davis

On September 13, when word came that my friend, the Rev. Howard Moody, had died at the age of 91, I remembered a self-description he loved to put out. He said that he came from a long line of “dirt farmers, renegades, and horse thieves down in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas.” Ordinarily, this is not a heritage that would seem to produce a man extraordinarily sensitive to the feelings and the lives of women, but that he was. In 1957, the first yea…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s. To unpack the deep historical, religious, and conservative culture war roots of this sweeping effort to roll back access to safe, effective birth control, I turned to fellow RD senior correspondent Patricia Miller, author of Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church, and RD’s Remapping American Christianities editor Anita Little. In this special roundtable, we talk about what’s in this new draft, how some Catholic leaders…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…August 24, 2020, was the first day of classes at right-wing evangelical school Liberty University. It also turned out to be the final day of the scandal-prone Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s professional implosion, much to the delight of liberals and moderates on Twitter, who followed the unfolding trainwreck closely all day. Indeed, the exciting conclusion of the Falwell “pool boy” saga upstaged the first day of the Republican National Convention to some ex…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…nswers. Back in the 18th century Jean-Jacques Rousseau published a little book he called Émile: or, On Education. This treatise—whose utopian propositions would go on to inspire figures in both the French and American revolutions—was not modest about its aims. Rousseau promised to do nothing less than shape the very destiny and life journey of his human reader. “To live is the trade I will teach him,” Rousseau baldly proclaimed. “On leaving my han…