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Peter Beinart’s Controversial The Crisis of Zionism: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment

By Shaul Magid

…ority of Israelis’ “willingness” to end the occupation, when they go to ballot box as a collective, they indicate otherwise. American Jews need to take seriously the real likelihood that Israelis (not just Netanyahu) simply do not want to end the occupation for all kinds of reasons. For many American Jews this causes cognitive dissonance—but they may have to deal with it. While Beinart gestures to his leftist critics that he is aware of the argume…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…ly-Christian Christianity (at least, so far as I can tell.) I just started Polish Catholic philosopher Leszek Kolakowski’s Is God Happy? As for Jewish voices, I just read Harold Kushner’s The Book of Job. When I finished it, I started all over again. What other choice did I have? As an Anglophone Muslim, it’s a little harder to get the same range at your local bookstore’s Islam section. Firstly you might find Islam under ‘eastern religions,’ which…

Freedom Through the Eyes of Bishops and Filmmakers

By Peter Montgomery

…he San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. The festival features a number of religion-themed films not likely to be endorsed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In fact, there are 22 films tagged by festival organizers as having religious or spiritual themes. Among them: Joy: Portrait of a Nun profiles Sister Missionary P. Delight and other members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the San Francisco-based performance art / po…

Did Mark Driscoll Plagiarize the Wrong Person?

By Rob Shryock

…s own “authenticity,” his from-the-heart spontaneity that often leads to bizarre and problematic interpretations of Bible passages. This is because, in the minds of Driscoll’s followers, his directness, looseness, spontaneity, and lack of polish makes him more honest, drawing him away from theologically abstraction and allowing him to engage more directly with God’s truth. He’s a “straight talker.” Now that this illusion has been shattered, the Dr…

We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…ghtly-edited transcript of the interview, providing him the opportunity to polish and burnish his comments, his only response was permission to wield my editorial pen “a bit more fiercely.” Such was the gentle, unassuming, and unpretentious character of John Stott, who passed away this week at the age of 90. In an age of megalomaniacal preachers, Stott stood decidedly apart, and in an era when American evangelicals were rushing into the political…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ians, Muslims, and Buddhists and an interview with Krzysztof Charamsa, the Polish priest and theologian who lost his job at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Vatican after coming out in October 2015. From the introduction by Executive Director Evelyne Paradis: Of course, for years, we have critiqued the institutions and structures built up around different faiths when their actions and statements have caused people direct pain. But…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…the human condition is one that’s attached to waiting. But you also talk a lot about questioning as a mode of being. I still do a lot of it. I was going to say. I like the alignment there. Because that’s what you do: you’re a questioner. That’s exactly right. And I try to get at the whole roots of agnosticism to some extent. There’s a long skeptical tradition that’s embodied in questioning. Trying to seek truth. It’s what Socrates is all about. Th…

My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me

By Joseph Laycock

…I think it’s worth asking what that was. I also think these games can be a lot more than just “escapism.” I found a lot of cases of gamers who found these games to be transformative: they thought about the world and themselves differently as a result of playing these games. So the point is not to claim that D&D is a religion or that religion is a fantasy role-playing game, but rather to use the creative tension of this comparison to think about ho…

Why the World Needs Religious Studies

By Nathan Schneider

…, about the existence or nature of a God—and you’ll start noticing a whole lot of other things about what you’re studying: things held in common, or even differences that can be of mutual benefit. As a journalist, I’ve found that epoché is rule number one for reporting among people different from you. Lawyers often have to do something similar. It’s a basic part of how business works. For much of history, traders, rather than scholars, have led th…

Untethering Conscience From Religion: An Interview with Louisa Thomas

By Jeremy Kessler

…t love should be the animating force of human interaction. It meant that a lot of ministers were going into tenements and trying to bring about the Kingdom of God on Earth. Norman was very much influenced by the writing of various social gospelers; he was also skeptical of many of them, because a lot of them were pretty sentimental. Some of them were more socialistic. So Norman was straying from his religiously conservative background? He came to…