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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rd G. Lugar, a Republican.” As Obama sets about filling a host of judicial seats in courts across the country, will liberals and progressives fight just as hard for his nominees as the religious right has fought for Reagan and Bush I & II’s nominees? Will the religious right wage an all-out war against each and every nominee, or will it hold its fire (if not its rhetoric) for the big battles; nominees to the US Supreme Court? Stay tuned. +++++++++…

New Study: Jews More “Spiritual” Less Ancestral

By Benjamin Weiner

…hasn’t been seen in the Jewish world since the first pages of the book of Numbers. And the reasons are similar. After the harrowing experiences of genocide and immigration, we find ourselves straggling through a new wilderness; anxious to know whether or not our demographics portend survival. But for the metaphor to be complete, we would have to imagine Moses, Aaron, and the elders, sitting under God’s cloud in the tent of meeting, asking each ot…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…ock fan, we stuck out because we didn’t know the words and remained in our seats. Here’s another detail that struck me as being really strange: after the bands finished playing, there was a sermon (I remember it was about Princess Diana, which was odd because she had died a year before). During the sermon, the crowd was quiet and attentive—except for the girl in our section who was returning to her seat with a big plate of nachos. It’s interesting…

A Jew in Church? No Big Deal

By Benjamin Weiner

…sk we all share as religious functionaries in a secular world: filling the seats. And journeys of discovery can seem less like the parable of the man who traveled to a far-off land to learn there was treasure under his house, and more like the tepid Rupert Holmes “Pina Colada Song,” in which bored lovers reignite their passion through a feint at adultery. I am by no means eager or nostalgic for religious conflict, but, had I been undercover as his…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…documentary informs us that the hair cut for temple sacrifices is now the number-one export out of India. The fact that tonsure, a religious act, has turned into a profiteering scheme is remarkable. But there also exist unscrupulous people who are stealing women’s hair, either while they sleep or in movie theaters where their braids or hair hang over the seats; while a woman is enjoying the latest from Bollywood, someone is cutting her hair and e…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…ed smooth jazz in the background. When Engle himself finally took the microphone at about 5 p.m., he dug almost immediately into the controversy, saying he hadn’t known about the bill and nearly canceled his trip over questions raised by his presence. But at no point did he contest Oyet’s support for the bill. “We know that Uganda has been under tremendous pressure—the church. We felt that same pressure. But I felt like The Call was to come and jo…

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…2 percent of the US population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity? If Kagan is confirmed, the Court will consist of three Jews and six Catholics (who represent not quite a fourth of the country), but not a single Protestant, though Protestants remain half the nation and our founding faith. If Kagan is confirmed, three of the four justices nominated by Democratic presidents will be from New Y…

David Barton’s New Get Out The Vote Effort

By Sarah Posner

…as the Potter’s House and the party’s ’72-Hour Plan’ that helped them gain seats in the 2002 congressional elections. The battle for Ohio, so the cliché goes, depends on turnout.” By 2010, the religious right’s messaging and get-out-the-vote efforts in evangelical churches has probably reached its saturation point. The Alliance Defense Fund and other religious right organizations have launched efforts like “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” designed to test…

Dining with Dawkins in the Humanist Bosom

By Edward J. Larson

…ut how thrilled they were to hear him. Some said they came to conference—a number of them from quite far away—primarily because Dawkins was going to speak. It was something akin to the excitement that I once noted among participants at an evangelical conclave before a sermon by Billy Graham. An appearance by the Pope must arouse similar feelings among Catholics. Too bad secular humanists don’t do healings or alter calls because it was the type of…

Water Water Everywhere

By Amina Wadud

…. For one thing, the faucets are about knee-high. In front of them are low seats made of waterproof materials, like marble or ceramic tile. Then in front of the seat is a long drain allowing the flow of water to empty out in a neater fashion. You don’t have to proceed to the prayer without drying off, but some people like this dripping of water, so they don’t. This adds to the mess; even with these really nifty wudu’ stations. When it’s hot and dr…