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On the Economy, it’s the “Keystone Kops” vs. the Democrats

By Daniel Schultz

…lternative to the gospel of austerity and beating up on unemployed people. It really isn’t that difficult. Big Money is Pharaoh, average citizens are the Israelites, and you, you dear Democrats, you get to be Charlton Heston with the fake beard and the twin slabs of rock. Given what else is going on this summer, I thought you might like that role. As always, take it for what it’s worth. Yours sincerely, blah blah blah, Pastor Dan P.S.: thanks to J…

The ‘Hastings’ Decision Unpacked: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…State of Belief host Welton Gaddy and RD associate editor Sarah Posner discuss the Supreme Court’s recent ‘Hastings’ decision (officially Christian Legal Society v. Martinez), a blow to the religious right’s twin desires to tear down the wall between church and state and to discriminate against lesbians and gays while retaining all privileges. Read the article referenced by Posner in the interview here. (Segment begins at 1:57)…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…much more support from the European states than it does from America. In a number of countries, Catholic schools are subsidized by the state and in some Catholic agencies even receive a defined share of taxes for overseas development projects. The European Union and the Overseas Development agencies also provide large amounts of money for Catholic projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. There have been sporadic attempts to cut off such funds…

Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…r experiences as the partner of a man who is killed in the collapse of the twin towers, and who struggles with the various institutional forces which seek to appraise and evaluate her experiences of grief, judging whether she has acted appropriately in response to her lover’s loss. Some seek to mobilize their victimhood as a resource for political action, while others seek to escape from the public view to suffer in silence and heal in private. Ag…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…c mind during the late nineteenth century. Spencer’s many followers, whose numbers comprised a virtual social register of the Anglo-American moneyed elite, typically embraced Darwinism as well. In his Autobiography, for example, Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie recalled the day in the 1870s that his reading of Darwin’s Descent of Man, Haeckel’s History of Creation, and various books by Spencer transformed his life. “I remember that…

Why Taking Offense at Santorum’s “Tri-Faith” Nation is a Good Sign

By Rachel Gordan

…eagerly quoted Christian and Jewish theologians who described the two as “twin religions” constituting “one system” and “[n]ot, fundamentally, two different religions but one.” Herberg argued that Judaism and Christianity were interdependent; united, notwithstanding their differences. Was there a whiff of something fraudulent in these postwar claims of sudden intimacy between Jews and Christians? Probably. But these goodwill, ecumenical efforts r…

Justice Denied by the “Culture of Life”

By Tom Davis

…words, “she is more righteous (more just) than I.” (26) She gives birth to twin sons and restores her economic security and self-respect. Quite simply, the story says that justice is more important than sexism. In a world that is often an ocean of injustice for women, we can see how this story resonates with the lives of equally desperate women today. The woman whose partner abandons her when she is pregnant is Tamar. The woman with no health insu…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…or not those ends are explicit or even known. Many scholars have shown how twin rhetorics of “tolerance” and “pluralism” back a range projects—noble, benign, and horrifying. Kelly Baker has written eloquently about how Ku Klux Klan members constructed themselves as acting out of “tolerance” and “love.” Meanwhile, we see organizations like Interfaith Worker Justice using the cultural capital of the term “interfaith” to fight for a living wage and u…

NY Subway Killing a Case of Blind Hatred?

By Laurie Patton

…s because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.” A native of India, Mr. Sen had saved enough money to open a small copy shop. While he had no family in the U.S., he had friends and associates who were part of this new life. While he was a Hindu, Sen had a Muslim roommate with whom he frequently discussed matters of belief. And when they did, Mr. Sen expressed his deep disappointment…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…complete,” Barbara Holmes, President of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and professor of ethics and African American religious studies, wrote in an email. “All over Africa you find people dressed as Quakers of a past era, wearing formal Presbyterian robes in the middle of the desert, singing ‘Amazing Grace’ instead of their own drummed invocations. It’s weird and sad.” Across these desecrated geographies, colonizers forbade traditio…