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No Presidential Magic When it Comes to Oil Spill

By Gordon D. Newby

…w ben Bezalel, the chief Rabbi of Prague in the sixteenth century, did not fare quite as well. During his time, the Jewish community of Prague was besieged by persons bent on killing all the Jews and destroying their community. Rabbi Yehuda decided to build a Golem, a magical creature of immense strength and power, to defend them. He prepared a large figure from clay, and with the help of others, combined the four elements, air, earth, wind and wa…

Methodist Clergy Pledge to Defy Church in Blessing LGBT Unions

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…r commitment. Now, I wonder, with our denomination losing members in large numbers daily, how we will fare as we begin to see the groundswell of clergy facing trial and having their orders defrocked for their commitment to justice? Of course, I know the Church that is the body of Jesus Christ will not fail. I am not so sure that our denomination, The United Methodist Church, has not entered a juncture where it can continue much longer as it now is…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…g scientific research, New Age and other metaphysical spiritualities might fare better anyway than intelligent design Christianity. Among their practitioners, evolution and progress are not bywords for heresy but, by and large, cosmic law. Quantum mechanics, which Christianity either tolerates or ignores, feels more intuitive to them than staid Newtonianism. And, while Christians grapple to find their notion of the soul in the latest neuroscience,…

Michigan Dem Attempts to Resurrect ‘Democrats Don’t Get Religion’ Trope — The Real Question is: Do Dems Get Nonreligion?

By Chrissy Stroop

…r diversity as a sign of “the infinite creativity of God”—is just standard fare for American political discourse. Pundits and Democratic operatives alike have long argued for—and attempted—“faith outreach” to White conservative Christians, despite the fact that, apart from individual local cases where peeling off a tiny number of voters at the margins can make the difference in a race, such outreach is counterproductive since it alienates the Demo…

A ‘Vows’ Piece in ‘The Times’ Shows How Doctrinaire Christian Celibacy Has Become Compared to its Ancient Roots

By Joseph Amar

…Style section of the New York Times was a notable departure from the usual fare of wedding and anniversary announcements. Titled ‘Far From Galilee, a Joseph-and-Mary Sort of Marriage,’ (or ‘One Chaste Marriage, Four Kids, and the Catholic Church’ in the online version) the article concerned the highly unusual decision of the author’s parents to forego sexual intimacy for a period of nine years in what is euphemistically referred to as a ‘Josephite…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…rist draws us humans to God, this too has been done already, and done to a fare-thee-well; to the point that most reasonably literate Christians can easily reel off the names of some key figures along this path: philosopher and historian Rene Girard, Gil Baillie (Girard’s foremost Catholic expositor), Walter Wink, James Alison, S. Mark Heim, Rita Nakashima Brock, and others. Jones acknowledges the importance of Rene Girard’s profound reflections…

The Nones are Alright: An End-of-the-Year Open Letter to Pearl-Clutching Pundits

By Chrissy Stroop

…eresting to note that both evangelical and mainline Protestants are losing numbers, while Catholics are holding steady at 21% of U.S. adults according to Pew, which is where they were in 2014. Protestants now make up 40% of the adult population, a decline of four percentage points over a five-year period. In light of the above, would it be too much to ask for a change to the way elite pundits and journalists approach American secularization in 202…

Can Anti-Mormon Prejudice be Compared to Anti-Black Racism?

By Joanna Brooks

…y. They are on par socioeconomically with the rest of America, and in fact fare slightly better in terms of education and affluence.” “African-American women, according to statistics released yesterday from the Center for American Progress, have an unemployment rate of 13.3%, nearly double that of white women, and make up 53% of those with no health insurance.” “White Mormons have no history of enslavement.” Amen, and amen. One of the ways schola…

Only The Good Die Young: The Moral Universe of Game of Thrones

By George Schmidt

…nd them, to disaster. Not that strong and noble figures like Aragorn would fare much better; for as Martin’s novels make clear, defined principles and the strong conviction to adhere to them can often be tantamount to stupidity. Ironically, Sean Bean, the same actor who played Boromir in the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, plays the central protagonist of the first season—in so far as a protagonist can exist in such a series. In place of…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…of the Empire State Building last month, about 100 college students toting fare from Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods attended a brown bag lunch whose speaker revived the dread of the Cold War, ominously asserting that communism continues to threaten America. It could have been ripped from the headlines of the sensationalistic conservative site World Net Daily, but the setting was far more staid. The speaker, David Noebel, part of The King’s College D…