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New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…to a permissive culture or surrender to relativism, individualism, hedonism, etc., etc. “But still more daunting is the fact that these theological essays are in fact genuinely theological. . . . The essays, even where they attend to empirical and cultural issues, make God and God’s self-revelation, whether in Scripture, creation or tradition, the framework for their judgments. “This is not, in other words, psychology or sociology or political phi…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…o imagine what might happen next. That claim probably needs to be qualified, however, since in fact our security apparatus has long been organized against precisely an event of this kind. Ever since Janet Neapolitano’s notorious pronouncement that “the system worked” on December 25, debates have swirled about what failed, about who failed, about who bears the responsibility for such failure, and what might be done about it. There will be full acco…

Is Covid-19 Introducing a New Generation to Fears of ‘Jewish Contagion’?

By Amanda Furiasse

…tagion have a very long and complicated history with public health and have, at times, played a dominant role in shaping American history and politics. Louis Harap, in The Image of the Jew in American Literature traces the installation of social distancing measures against Jewish contagion to the colonial period. During the 20th century, older discourses of contagion were revised around growing hysteria over unclean Jews in urban industrial factor…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…f Phrenology. The idea there was that by studying the human head—its size, shape, and general morphology—you could tell a lot about the intelligence and even the moral character of the person under consideration. There were criminal craniums; that was the main idea. Naturally, the Nazi pseudo-science of racializing the human head and face dealt a deserved death-blow to such nonsense. But in studies like this one, Phrenology’s back again in a new…

Defending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…cans are homeless in a given year. My other concerns come from Vest himself, who, in the course of his 700 Club interview made it clear that part of his goal is not just to “give a handout” to the needy, but to proselytize them as well: “That’s why we feel like any kind of charitable organization that is Christian has to be so attached to the Bible. The American Bible Society is all about scripture, but we are there alongside the relief agents to…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…ddhists in America are few when compared with our sisters and brothers from, say, the Judeo-Christian religious traditions; the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey found that those who identify as Buddhist comprise 0.7% of the US population. Still, according to the think tank’s findings, of the five major world religions, Buddhism has the third largest following in the United States, with more adherents than Islam…

Invoking God’s Name Like a Bludgeon

By Lauri Lebo

…2009 Chancellor’s Opening Session, Wagner, acting as the District’s officer, agent, and official representative, invited the assembled faculty and staff to stand for an invocation “[i]n recognition of this country’s rich religious heritage.” Trustee Williams then declared: Before the invocation, I thought I’d tell a little Biblical story. Today’s story is about Jonah. In grade school one day, a little girl spoke to her teacher about Jonah and how…

5 Reasons Why Obama Shouldn’t Negotiate with the Bishops

By Sarah Posner

…oday: That means removing the provision from the health care law altogether, he said, not simply changing it for Catholic employers and their insurers. He cited the problem that would create for “good Catholic business people who can’t in good conscience cooperate with this.” If I quit this job and opened a Taco Bell, I’d be covered by the mandate,’ Picarello said. 3. The Bishops falsely conflate birth control with abortion. 4. The Bishops refuse…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…eople in attendance. After one member sang an original song, “God Save the USA,” accompanied by a video montage blending patriotism with images of Jesus and the Bible, Federer took the stage. Though he calls himself a historian, he has no training in that field nor does he have any education or expertise in Islam or the Qur’an. Federer, who has a bachelor’s degree in accounting/business administration from Saint Louis University and an Honorary Do…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…nt who’s currently in the ordination process with the Presbyterian Church (USA), notes: Religious viewpoints and attitudes affect how people interpret and interact with medicine, politics, neighbors, and money. At a macro level, religious views influence geopolitical relationships and trade relationships…Theology is an oft-neglected but invaluable vantage point from which to look at our past and current relationships… Broad theological questions…