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The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…elist James Robison, to continue to plot what Kaylor describes as a “behind-the-scenes strategy” to defeat Barack Obama in 2012. In the second part of his two-part article, Kaylor reported: A group of pastors and other conservative Christian leaders from across the country continue to plan their behind-the-scenes strategy to defeat President Obama in 2012. However, the group does not seem likely to support a Republican during the primary race or e…

Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis? [Updated]

By Jay Michaelson

…tions. There are bloody, vindictive religious traditions (as today’s not-so-new atheists insist on reminding us), and there are those which soften the human tendency toward vengeance and violence. Religion does not have the answer, because it has all the answers, the right and the wrong. Religion is less a glossary of terms (justice means this, righteousness that) than a grammar, a framework for moral reasoning. It is a language in which to think—…

The Debt Ceiling Crisis and Biblical Economics

By Julie Ingersoll

…y will at last decide to adopt a simple system of honest money, along with competitive free market principles throughout the economy.” In fact Gary North (who at one time worked for Rep. Paul) is currently describing the debate over the debt ceiling as political theater. But that’s because he is sure Congress will vote to increase it and, ultimately, he doesn’t think it matters. For North, default of the U.S. economy is inevitable; he argues that…

Why Your Mood Should Not Depend on Polls

By Sarah Posner

…itutions should get an exemption from covering contraception for their employees? Or, to put it another way, how many Americans think all women regardless of where they work, should have insurance coverage for co-pay-free contraception? Or whether certain religious groups should get special treatment from the government? The only thing the polls tell us is that people are open to being persuaded… based on the phrasing….

The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…lebrate together joyously. I had visited the homes of my sister and brother-in-law’s Palestinian friends, where I had been welcomed graciously as an honored guest. These were just ordinary people. When Jews extended even a tentative hand of friendship, they responded with exuberant hugs. Why, I wondered, couldn’t that happen throughout the land? I’ve gathered plenty of answers to that question over the intervening years, and Miko Peled’s book add…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…se boards, like most governing bodies, do not involve themselves in the day-to-day operations of the school, as long as accreditation, usually overseen by ATS, remains secure. The Dean, in some instances statutorily a priest, is also president of the institution. S/he has the title of Very Reverend, and, should s/he be so inclined, may run the school according to her or his vision, without input of students or faculty. Faculty may find themselves…

The Birmingham Church Bombing: How Will We Remember?

By Edward J. Blum

…our public memories of the civil rights movement, could anything be more un-King-like? Wasn’t the civil rights movement about reconciliation and hope? Wasn’t it called the March on Washington for Jesus and Forgiveness? (Nope, it was for “Jobs and Freedom.”) Three weeks ago, we were celebrating the March on Washington; we were watching and listening to King as we do each January on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday created in the conservative e…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…to murder its Negroes systematically instead of little by little and catch-as-catch-can. If Coates is right that reparations at least partially correlated with German societal and cultural reckoning, then one can see their fruits in Germany today. Last month, following a number of horrid, hateful slogans chanted at Jews (in the context of otherwise legitimate protests against Israel’s attack on Gaza), and a number of violent incidents, there was…

Making Space For All on Aronofsky’s Ark

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…in. The answers were just as fantastical as I had hoped: a terrifying burnt-out post-paradise landscape, a feverish retelling of the necessary prehistory that gets boiled down to just three shots: snake; apple; fist of Cain. An invisible God, never named as such but always called “The Creator” or “him”, a jolly if terrifying Methuselah, has in his possession magical seeds from Eden that grow an entire forest for Noah to chop down and build the Ark…

Times Public Editor Slaps Down Unscientific Claims About Emergency Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…of unintended pregnancies or abortions. Aside from being ineffective, over-the-counter access to emergency contraceptive is harmful to women’s health. It isolates the most at-risk women (teenagers and those in unstable relationships) from getting the medical care they need to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases and access appropriate contraceptive counseling. And in certain situations, emergency contraception may act by blocking a newly concei…