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Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…emy and outside of it. What drew you to the big stories, and how did you become comfortable writing them? And relatedly, might the Charter for Compassion be a kind of plea for us to tell ourselves a different kind of “big story?” Well, I am an academic outcast. I wanted to become a professor of English Literature but failed to achieve this. And I think it was a good thing because, as you so rightly say, I am drawn to the Big Story, which is not in…

Should We Believe ‘Bombshell’ Report on Pope’s Knowledge of Sexual Abuse?

By Daniel Schultz

…ts on display are tens of thousands of ruined lives and case after case of higher-ups abusing the trust given them to sweep it all under the rug. Viganò and his friends might like to scapegoat gay priests for this, and maybe take out their detested Francis while they’re at it. They should be careful what they wish for. A thorough investigation of sexual abuse in the church might turn up more than a few issues in their own ranks, for one thing. For…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…mply flattens him to sound-bites that can be deployed to promote his Israel-as-Goliath narrative (admittedly Leibowitz makes himself vulnerable to such distortion). If Blumenthal actually sat down and read Leibowitz, preferably in the original Hebrew but even in the English translations that are readily available, he would have a better sense of Leibowitz’s more complex position on these matters. Sloppy comments like these sink this book of detail…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…Hurok Enterprises, causing a fire that injured 13 employees and killed a 27-year-old employee, Iris Kones, from smoke inhalation. Hurok was an impresario who often booked Russian acts to perform in America. The bombing, widely believed to be the work of the JDL, resulted in many of those who disagreed with Kahane, but who defended his right to speak, distancing themselves from Kahane and the JDL. It was in many ways, his “Waterloo.” But he still r…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…ough which they have donated more than 55,000 books since 2009. Their most high-profile campaign to date was HPA for the Win in June 2010, during which HPA mobilized huge numbers of online voters from across fandoms and online communities to win a $250,000 grant from the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. Then there’s the current “Deathly Hallows” campaign, which centers on the release date of a Harry Potter movie—in this case, The Deathl…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…sence, shaped God as one who answers to buttons that are pressed. Osteen’s feel-good messages have long been an easy target for progressives who feel his soft, easy-going “Aw shucks” personality is not enough in the face of conversations around race, racism and LGBT inclusion. And Osteen is inclined theologically toward prosperity gospel—the idea that the sign of one’s faithfulness is best measured by material possessions and wealth. In a recent e…

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…, you have destroyed the concept of an excellent woman.” By posing this all-or-nothing approach to gender and using cherry-picked Bible verses to justify it, Merkle sets up viewers to accept her worldview without understanding the context from which this ideology originates. So who is Rebekah Merkle, and why is she the expert on how women should live? Unsurprisingly, Merkle is the daughter of Doug Wilson and the wife of Ben Merkle, the president o…

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…. Do we even realize how odd that is? The opposite is usually the case: low-income workers often work more than one job and are among the hardest-working people in the country. Add to that the fact that most of these workers never had the opportunity to attend elite schools and colleges and that they do not have the social networks that provide business opportunities, and it should become clear that their predicament has nothing to do with their m…

Romney’s Christian Nation Conundrum

By Sarah Posner

…will govern. But don’t judge their road to salvation. 1 Gingrich (Catholic-come-lately): Don’t judge how someone believes in God, just judge them based on whether they believe in God, because if they don’t, you shouldn’t trust them. 2 Perry (evangelical): I can’t help it if Jeffress went off on his anti-Mormon rant. There’s freedom of religion in this country, and Jeffress is therefore free to go off against Mormonism if that’s what he believes! 3…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…ecostal movements, especially those emphasizing spiritual warfare and round-the-clock prayer and worship, and which have produced another sort of army. That one is not particularly intrigued by the horse race of politics, but rather focused more exclusively on the supremacy of Jesus and preparing for his return. That caused some controversy for the organizers of Perry’s event, which included speakers and endorsers who follow the New Apostolic Refo…