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Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…xclusion, and Protestant whiteness was often a key component. With greater numbers of Jews and Catholics on campus in the 1940s and 1950s, one fraternity even changed its charter to limit members to “Caucasian Christians.” Jews and Catholics challenged these discriminatory practices, but also defended their own autonomous organizations. As Schultz so nicely shows, fraternity struggles highlighted the problems of enforced integration. Jewish and Ca…

Creationist Rumblings in Louisiana

By Lauri Lebo

…tant that we do the correct thing for the children we educate.” Meanwhile, Barbara Forrest, a Southeastern Louisiana University philosophy of science professor and one of intelligent design’s most damning critics, responds to the Livingston Parish discussion, providing some interesting context and delivering a dead-on blow-by-blow account of the religious motivations of those behind the law this week in the Hammond Daily Star. The Louisiana Family…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…be after we have separated materialistic prejudice from scientific fact.’” Barbara Forrest, who as an expert witness for Dover’s plaintiffs so damningly exposed intelligent design’s creationist roots, says McLeroy’s position has evolved in keeping with creationists’ latest strategy. His is merely relying on what Forrest calls the “code words.” But their long-term goals remain the same: To get God into science class. The full statement in the Texas…

Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

By Christopher Douglas

…or the bacterial flagellum to supplement the natural process of evolution. Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross offer a devastating portrait of Intelligent Design in Creationism’s Trojan Horse, in which they see Intelligent Design much more cynically, with its purveyors knowingly perpetrating a fraudulent conservative think-tank funded public relations campaign on a mostly scientifically naïve public. Intelligent Design textbooks and curricula were a…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…Spirits Walks Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (Belknap Harvard), Barbara Dianne Savage argues, “Despite common usage, there is no such thing as the ‘black church’… Yet the ‘black church’ lives on precisely because it is political and cultural shorthand and an all-purpose stand-in for the dearth of other black institutions, especially in the twentieth century when large institutional responses to racial inequality were required.” This par…

Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence

By Kathryn Joyce

…“Eve Syndrome,” ever since. Another of Moss and Andersen’s contemporaries, Barbara Roberts, Australian author of Not Under Bondage: Biblical Divorce for Abuse, Adultery and Desertion, even calls herself a complementarian. Though Roberts believes that complementarianism too often has “an undue emphasis on female submission and too little emphasis on the husband’s duty to protectively lead his wife,” she still agrees with large portions of classic c…

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…atalog the immense damage done by “think positive—you can do it” trumpery; Barbara Ehrenreich already did that job, and did it brilliantly, in 2009’s Bright-sided. Instead, I want to place Louise Hay within the family tree of religious science. The many and varied ramifications of this peculiarly American religious movement make it look more like a forest than a tree, and because this forest has thrived in the suburbs of Christianity, its sheer sc…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…regular ordination by 1976 and the consecration of the first woman bishop, Barbara Harris, in 1989. Roman Catholic women began ordaining themselves in 2004 after an initial irregular ordination by a male bishop in 2002. While these women (who number about 50 priests and five bishops) have been excommunicated, they are living proof that the institutional church has only the power we give it. They go about the business of ministry and service with s…

‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition

By Celia Wexler

…rofile Catholic activists such as “Nun on the Bus” Sister Simone Campbell; Barbara Blaine, herself a sexual abuse survivor and the founder of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests; Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignityUSA, which advocates for LGBT Catholics, and Frances Kissling, who served for 25 years as the head of Catholics for a Free Choice, now Catholics for Choice. But in these pages you’ll also meet an African-…

Court Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email

By Lauri Lebo

…sign from her position. The issue? The email was about an upcoming talk by Barbara Forrest, a philosopher of science and one of the creationists’ most hated enemies. Forrest wrote, along with her co-author Paul R. Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse, a damning and carefully documented account of “intelligent design’s” creationist links. In the 2005 intelligent design trial of Kitzmiller v. Dover, Forrest was the defendants’ most feared witness, who…