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Does McCain Have the Religion Rhetoric Down?

By Ira Chernus

…k like a loser. Will McCain take that risk? Or will he count on God, a winner by definition, to shore up his claim that American troops in Iraq are also winning? It’s something to watch for….

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…’s red Prada shoes and designer sunglasses than about his criticism of the Iraq war. This time around in Washington DC and New York City, we hear about the “Pope-Soap-On-A-Rope” but not the people who work in Catholic schools for low wages. We see T-shirts for papal teddy bears, but no hint of the impact of the Vatican’s policy banning the use of condoms, even for those who are HIV-infected. Whether it is a Sunday morning talk show, the front page…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…ned, all the examples that first came to mind started with the letter “I”: Iraq, Israel, India, Indonesia. Of course I quickly thought of exceptions to the rule, like Lebanon, Sri Lanka—and the United States of America. Europeans tell us that they don’t understand why we insist on bringing religion into politics. Their situation is certainly different from ours; according to a 2005 poll, only about half of the people in EU member countries “believ…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…associated with the name, from the pious side of McCarthyism to the War in Iraq, is their fault. Somehow, even in their midst, “we” are something else. And here lurks the danger in a master narrative: it promises a means of distinction between those who belong to it and those who don’t, as if the spiritual sons and daughters of Jonathan Edwards have inherited a special chamber in their hearts. But the truth is, especially in a country like this on…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…heir seventies, so far have refused to relinquish their hold on the movement. Nor is it clear that the rising generation of leadership has the imagination or the fortitude to move beyond the old issues of abortion and homosexuality to embrace other “moral issues” such as the war in Iraq, this adminstration’s persistent use of torture or the despoiling of the environment, God’s creation, in the interest of corporate profits. The failure of the gath…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…heir seventies, so far have refused to relinquish their hold on the movement. Nor is it clear that the rising generation of leadership has the imagination or the fortitude to move beyond the old issues of abortion and homosexuality to embrace other “moral issues” such as the war in Iraq, this adminstration’s persistent use of torture or the despoiling of the environment, God’s creation, in the interest of corporate profits. The failure of the gath…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…azine or Bill Moyer’s television reporting. Consider, for example, how the Iraq war was opposed by most sectors of world Christianity, including most US mainline Protestant leaders. This was less a failure to speak than a resistance to listening. Although George Bush claims to be Methodist, he refused to meet with Methodist bishops to discuss the war. In 2006, the United Church of Christ tried to buy television ads promoting religious diversity un…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…lar, the knowledge of the early Islamic world, especially as it is used to promote proper behavior, remains in the anecdotal, atomized form, and should only be put into narrative history by those qualified to do so, the educated, religious elite. The first attempt to write a full narrative biography of Muhammad was begun toward the end of the first Islamic century and completed shortly after the centenary of Muhammad’s death (632 C.E.). The author…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…blems in the economy, end the armed incursion into the sovereign nation of Iraq, catch Osama bin Laden, turn water into wine, fix the health care system, give negroes their 40 acres and a mule, end our dependence on foreign oil, fix the public school system, bring jobs back from overseas, resolve the housing crisis, restore America’s reputation around the world, increase the minimum wage, get crunk in the White House, ensure equality among all peo…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…elknap/Harvard University, put all of its considerable prestige behind its promotion—in 2007, that is, when Harvard published the book. The fact that the Times slipped the book onto its 2008 list is a clue that such lists aren’t so much a reflection of the best as of what the editors read and cared about that year. That can lead to a certain amount of cronyism—books by Times contributors are especially well represented on the Times’ list—which is…