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Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…esent wars as much as any cutting-edge science. Both contributed to the fatal mix of brash arrogance and blindness to politics on the ground that permitted the invasion of Iraq to take place and set the stage for a disastrous occupation. Ironically, the terrorists and insurgents who have made the occupation so vicious appear to grasp the scientific ways of warfare without the benefit of the Pentagon’s billions. “This enemy is better networked than…

Pagan Outrage Machine Fires Up in Response to Time Halloween Article

By Joseph Laycock

…ing at one’s computer. Baker suggested that America’s renewed interest in Salem might be a product of the war on terror which has been used to justify the erosion of civil liberties and a culture of spying on civilians. This, in turn, has caused Americans to identify with those killed in Salem. In other words, Baker claims we all feel like the victims of a witch-hunt. The point of contention arises when Baker explains how the Puritan belief that d…

What are We Going to do About American Women?

By Shabana Mir

…them. Women and young girls are sold on streets, in magazines, and on the internet. Pimps and porn industry owners claim that these women are “free” to choose to sell their wares. They’re objectified, raped, pimped, and battered. A million women are raped each year. Millions of women are battered. How do we know this? We see it rooted in scriptural language about women. We see it in statistics. We see it loud and clear—in Hollywood movies, in Vog…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…e of more and more explicitly democratic movements in the Muslim world. We also miss the fact that Tunisia’s oppressive regime also oppressed religion. There’s undeniable, broad, and non-partisan popular frustration with a corrupt government, which Tunisians are rightly sick of. Tunisia’s dictatorship—Ben Ali was in power since 1987, back when the Soviet Union existed—also strictly controlled Tunisia’s religious life. Religiously active Tunisians…

The New God-Fearers (FKA “The Nones”) and Where to Find Them

By Carlos Wilton

…strategy was to seek out God-fearers wherever they happened to be. These half-committed, outside-looking-in seekers eventually formed the nucleus of the Christian church.” Among that crowd was Lydia, a “seller of purple.” Lydia was an entrepreneur in the new economy of that day: a merchant whose niche was marketing the costly purple cloth that was all the rage at the imperial court. Strong, self-sufficient women like Lydia felt marginalized by th…

Mental Health is a Spiritual and Religious Issue

By Joanna Brooks

…ue leadership. Stricter gun control regulations? Slim chance. Improved mental health services? An impossibility in cash-strapped states like Arizona. I’m sort of ashamed to admit it now, but in the first hours after the shooting, I went to the internet—then awash in conflicting reports about the fate of Gabrielle Giffords—with one question in mind: was the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, a Mormon like me? In Arizona, where 6% of the population is LDS…

What Should Truly Disturb Us About Game of Thrones’ Child Sacrifice

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…clothes in mourning, but also engages in some heavy-duty victim blaming: “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low … for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.” She answers him: “My father, if you have opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth,” (Judges 11:36). A seemingly willing victim, she asks only that she be given two months to wander the mountains and mourn her v…

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…ll kinds of studies show that even people who study biology have systematically misinterpreted or misunderstood basic aspects of evolution theory. You also see it, for instance, in history of science, if you take a look at the way that Charles Darwin represents evolution in his notebooks. And then maybe 30 or 40 years later, you have this representation by Ernst Haeckel: he draws evolution like a tree that grows up in the air, and you have man at…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…ords, is it the Jesus who appeals to the effeminate preachers and their female flock or the Billy Sunday-Billy Graham [version represented today by] Tony Evans? He is this black football-playing advisor to the Promise Keepers, and they stress that they’re excessively butch. In fact, one of my more playful lines is that muscular Christianity devolves into the image of Bishop Eddie L. Long posing on his smartphone. In recent gospel, [the trend has b…

Jews and Baseball: A Reflection on a Longtime Love Affair

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…working on for the past ten years, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball. Along the way, I have also taught a “Jews and Sports” course, written several academic articles on Jewish baseball themes, and appeared as a talking head in a documentary, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. I have even become a serious baseball fan again, having lapsed since my childhood. Although I never stopped following the game after the Dodgers left Brook…