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Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…the ground” in order to prevent any peace agreement that would include territorial compromise. To subvert any such agreement it needs to populate the territories (it refers to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria) as quickly as possible. In short, it needs bodies, Jewish bodies. To meet this need, Settler Zionism has successfully cultivated important alliances, even with those who do not share its theological assumptions. First, there are the secul…

Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…ing myths in competition with the equally – or I would say more – awe-inspiring discoveries of science. Gods and flaming chariots are nothing, they’re cheap comic book fare, compared to what we actually have learned about stars and galaxies and the like. I think that there’s a sort of mirror image, an opposite of scientism, which has a real tin ear for the breathtaking awesomeness of science. All you have to do is listen to David Attenborough or C…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…ve line of the book is about the ABS’s key role in “innovation, both in American Christianity and the nation as a whole.” Fea details these through the course of the narrative, including steam-power presses, Braille Bibles, talking Bibles, direct marketing of Bibles, “postage seals, music videos, and digital scripture products.” Yes, there’s an app for that. Moreover, the ABS was key to two new translations of the Bible—Today’s English Version and…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…ay stations are early Roman urinariums; #X: Edward Gibbon prophesied the Christian Right would be the straw poll that broke the empire’s back. Etc.) Beinart, a contributing editor for The Atlantic, has given considered attention (must-read) to a trend many Muslims have experienced for years now, and equally struggled for years to convince the rest of the world the reality of: Rampant Islamophobia, mostly but not always on the right. Vox’s Max Fish…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…tried to narrate his assassinations inside a story of psychosis and terrrorism sprinkled with racism, so that we will see his actions as extraordinary evil. But Dylann Roof’s act was not extraordinary evil, it was quite ordinary evil, the evil deeply embedded in the racial architecture of America. This young man yielded to the mind bending incoherent frustration born of whiteness, a frustration that has always misdirected its anger at black peopl…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…discussed nutritional biochemistry and explained how Soylent “fit[s] the criteria that people desire in their staple foods.” This attitude isn’t too far from the kind of decluttering ethic that Marie Kondo would recognize. To explain why he cut cooking from his life, Rhinehart told The Atlantic, “I would rather enjoy things because I want to, not because I have to.” And he reports seeing the most interest from young, educated males who are “busy…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…in minutes, and patrons can pay upwards of $70 per class in order to get priority booking. “Ultimately, this is what brand religion is all about: stoking emotion with a combination of scarcity and urgency,” writes Virgin executive Ron Faris, covering SoulCycle for the Harvard Business Review. “It’s irrational commerce at its finest.” In some ways, SoulCycle looks like a prosperity gospel church for secular coastal elites. Preachers in the prosper…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

…that misunderstands Francis’ amazing, charismatic realignment of Catholic priorities as a cheap publicity stunt to get hippies in the pew. He completely misunderstands Francis’ speech to Congress as plumping for liberal values—and I’m not entirely sure he gets that Martin Luther King wasn’t a Catholic. On and on it goes. Douthat snipes at “a liberalism that thinks it can impose meaning on a cosmos whose sound and fury signifies nothing on its own,…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…, crimson blood-red design. Supposedly this has enraged a portion of the Christian right, who view this decision as a rejection of Christian values. This portion of conservative Christians – exactly how many remains vague in media coverage – apparently views the crimson cups as evidence of secular humanistic creep, and the replacement of Christianity with a pluralistic perspective that these individuals view as an affront to their religious libert…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…e awe, I watched you hold congregations in the palm of your hand with rhetorical flourishes, giving a beat-down-people strength to live another day. Your words helped to re-constitute an assaulted black self—with respectability, dignity and self-determination. I studied how you mounted the sacred desk. The way that you ‘took and walked’ a text was a dissertation in performance and homiletical studies. I took avid notes. Elegant mothers wearing pea…