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Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…led last Halloween night in San Francisco—Michael Jackson on the MUNI bus, Barbara Streisand teetering on four-inch heels at Starbucks—was this one: comix artist Robert Crumb onstage at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, headlining the Jewish Book Fest at its sold-out opening event. Basically it was the usual Jewish Bay Area crowd, coming out in droves for Crumb, who had apparently become an honorary member of the tribe by illustrating tha…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…reds of evangelists and linguists, including Steve Campbell’s own parents, Barbara and Robert Campbell, as missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Under the directorship of William Cameron Townsend, the SIL/WBT signed contracts with U.S. government agencies and received funding by private enterprises with an interest in developing the region. As U.S. agencies and companies spread into Latin America, missionaries came under growing criticism…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…hristians, disrespectful and murderous of Christian identity. Writers like Barbara Kingsolver (in The Poisonwood Bible), Marilynne Robinson (in Gilead), Ishmael Reed (in Mumbo Jumbo), Gloria Anzaldúa (in Borderlands/La Frontera) and Philip Roth (think The Plot Against America) translated their critiques of conservative Christian politics into the language of multicultural disrespect for identities. But as it turned out, this language was also bein…

Creationist-Leaning Texas Sets Textbook Agenda

By Lauri Lebo

…of those ubiquitous drive-thru daiquiri stands, I’ll also be visiting with Barbara Forrest, the woman best known for irking the heck out of intelligent design advocates. Creationism’s Trojan Horse, the book she co-wrote with Paul Gross, details the statements of the movement’s leaders, providing inescapably clear evidence that the intelligent design movement is religiously motivated. A philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, For…

Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science

By Lauri Lebo

Barbara Forrest says there are two Louisianas. The southern half, a mélange of ethnicities of Spanish, French, Acadians and descendants of slaves, in which Catholic and African religious traditions intermingle. And then there is the northern half of the state with its white Anglo evangelical heritage. It’s this divide that has made her state a hotbed for the religious right. The Louisiana Family Forum, a state affiliate of James Dobson’s Focus on…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…ian ethos in black America. These theologically conservative communions outnumber and overwhelm the influence and theological visions of Christian traditions that are stereotypically progressive such as the United Church Christ and the United Methodist Church. The stark reality is that the overwhelming majority of black Christians have more in common, theologically, with Southern Baptists, the Church of God, and the Assemblies of God than with Epi…

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…crusading knights. According to the text (uncovered by Vatican researcher Barbara Frale), until 1354 the Shroud was safeguarded by the Knights Templar, a military order that was popular and well supported within the Church, even if they were occasionally accused of idolatry and sodomy. Dr. Frale’s document may explain such allegations. She writes of a young French Templar, Arnaut Sabbatier, who joined the order in 1297 after undertaking a ritual…

Mad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ed vision of the turn-on-tune-in-drop-out movement reminded me at first of Barbara Ehrenreich’s frustration with the “too-sweetness” of spirituality. Metaphysical matters do not have to be woo-woo; nor do historical eras have to be one-of-a-kind. When boomers come up to Weiner, as they often do, demanding to know why something they remember was left out of the show, “I’m like, ‘I’m not telling your story, I’m telling the story of your parents.’ Yo…

Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Laying on of Hands

By Lauri Lebo

…riously anti-science. Here is a link to the Family Forum article. If you scroll down to photo under “Let Us Pray!” you’ll see the laying on of hands on Gov. Jindal during the vigil. Hat tip to Barbara Forrest. Correction: This post originally stated that Gov. Jindal is a young earth creationist. It has been corrected to state that he is a creationist….

Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

…rend. Michelle Goldberg’s, “The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money” explores the history behind secular, corporate-friendly meditation. [The New Yorker] In “Mind Your Own Business,” Barbara Ehrenreich explains how “byte-sized” meditation has come to serve the needs, and economic self-interest, of Silicon Valley. [The Baffler]…