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Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…a people for a people without a land’’ was popularized by Anglo-Jewish novelist Israel Zangwill. From Zangwill’s writings the phrase, translated into many languages, became a mainstay of Zionist polemics. The phrase was utilized in a number of ways, some more sophisticated than others. While some advocates of Zionism used it to imply that Palestine was empty of people, that suggestion was contradicted by the reports of many Western visitors. The…

Racial Justice and Queer Masculinity: The Gospel of Frank Ocean

By Josiah Daniels

…ally laments, “Bloodshed follows bloodshed.” Ocean, like Hosea, puts his feelings of hopelessness in verse, “That’s the way everyday goes/Every time we have no control.” Barbarity and chaos cause God to cry out, My heart is turned within me, My compassion grows like a flame. God’s burning compassion is on display in the Exodus story as the slaves cry out. It looks nothing like a directed prayer, but their groaning compels God to protest their pain…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

By Galen Watts

…wn and widespread program of recovery from the disease of alcoholism (a widely-held concept it helped to normalize) in the world today. AA has recently received a wave of criticisms which, in different ways, target what have been perceived to be its religious components. Some have argued that AA lacks scientific credibility and offers a treatment for alcoholism that is thoroughly “irrational.” The claim is that evidence-based research has proven t…

A Real-Life Truman Show?

By Lauri Lebo

…hrough the gate leading to the water, one must punch in a combination pass code. The town’s elegantly manicured gardens belie its state’s housing market collapse. But just outside of town, realtors advertise “Free Foreclosure Lists!” Sitting along a commons of lush grass, an attractive young couple casually dressed in designer sunglasses, khakis, and expensive sandals led a group of fair-haired children in prayer. The young blond woman urged the c…

Talmud v. Torture: The Jewish Case Against “Enhanced Interrogation”

By Benjamin Weiner

…iple known as kavod ha-briot (“human dignity”), contrasting notions like tselem elohim (“creation in the image of God”) and hamalbin pnei heviro b’rabim (“whoever shames his fellow in public has spilled his blood”) with the depredations of Abu Ghraib. Jewish law does clearly place preeminent value on the preservation of life, and articulates circumstances in which a rodef (a “pursuer”) may be harmed or killed to prevent his murder of another. But…

Final (Probably) Thoughts On The Aqua Buddha Ad

By Sarah Posner

…oach has been, especially since about 2006 or so, to try to make themselves out to be the “authentic” Christians who truly care about their neighbors and all that. The Aqua Buddha ad may have been a bad strategic move in Kentucky; we’ll never really know. But Conway — without, as far as I can tell, invoking treacly religion — takes positions on economic issues that would, if enacted, actually help his constituents. Rand Paul does not. But Democrat…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…think tank in Washington, DC (full disclosure: I am currently a Visiting Fellow in Religion at Third Way.) He was joined by a panel of leaders representing this emerging center: Dr. Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action and the Evangelical Environmental Network; Rich Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals and leader of the Creation Care movement; and Sam Rodriguez, founder of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Co…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iders, counselors, landlords, and others to turn LGBT people away, citing religious beliefs. When the law excuses discrimination in one aspect of daily life, that “exception” can end up swallowing the rule. Romania: European Court of Justice takes up marriage case; opponents push for referendum The European Court of Justice has begun to examine a case brought by Adrian Coman, a Romanian man seeking legal residency for his American husband, which t…

Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?

By Eric Reitan

…de decided to enter the uterus of a Jewish virgin, got himself born, then deliberately had himself tortured and executed because he couldn’t think of a better way to forgive the theft of an apple, committed at the instigation of a talking snake. Since I live in Oklahoma (the purported Buckle of the Bible Belt), one might expect that Dawkins was envisioning a neighborhood like mine when he assessed the chances that my next-door neighbors believed t…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…. For real? Either Beck has never watched the movie, or he’s so conservatively deluded that he thinks Mr. Potter is the hero. Check out Jimmy Stewart’s take down of Potter here: And, what was Pottersville, this place that Beck thinks Wilmington would become if they accepted government aid? The clips are long, but gosh darn it, they’re so worth watching—again. And at homes around the country during the holidays, it was always so nice knowing that w…