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Religion and Science: Busting Assumptions

By Annie Hardison-Moody

…al education to science and religion could help to develop students’ critical skills in thinking through these complex issues. These examples highlighted the ways that students can become a part of the “story” behind science. Professors stressed the importance of primary texts, and of history. Creative pedagogical models that partner researchers and students were also emphasized. Dr. David Lynn of Emory University highlighted Emory’s On Recent Dis…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…it is far from alone. An entire extended universe of conservative evangelical talk radio, podcasts, television programs, articles, and Internet forums perpetuate the narrative that their consumers are under attack by a wicked world whose methods change from day to day, but whose goal is always the downfall of Christianity and Christians. Why was I the only person wearing a mask at the Answers in Genesis conference? Because this sophisticated web o…

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Is Muslim. So What?

By Sarah Posner

…at a Republican congressional candidate in Florida, Allen West, a retired mililtary officer, issued a statement on the massacre headlined “Terrorists Are Infiltrating the Military.” Muslim groups were quick to condemn the shootings — as if they were obligated to much a special effort to do so merely because the alleged shooter was Muslim. The Muslim Public Affairs Council-DC, the Islamic Society of North America Office for Interfaith and Community…

Gay Republicans Question Conservative Credentials

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…esbian couples for whom there is no marital exemption.” They opposed the health care bill, and again according to their own website, because it “does indeed discriminate against gay families.” Which is sort of a strange complaint since Perkins and the religious right oppose or support laws simply because they directly affect their families and friends personally in some way. I thought that’s what advocacy work, on either side of fence, was all abo…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…biography of Malcolm X and you have all the core books for a course on modern Islam in America. Since MMK is an autodidact, he does not see what is happening as unique to Islam in America, but part of larger trends in Islamic intellectual thought. He weaves in references to al-Hallaj, the malamati—Sufis who sought disapproval, lest all they seek was approval—and various theological debates. In the fall of 2009 he will be starting a Masters program…

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…riests via Facebook, email, or, for the hopelessly disconnected priest, snail mail. “Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today’s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?”…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…n the score,” inferring that Sam should take out Amanda Greystone. This moral dilemma will undoubtedly loom large for the brothers’ relationship. Kudos to the writers, however, for making Sam’s sexual preference and marriage a matter of course, not any different from any other relationship on the show. What is both refreshing and puzzling to me so far about Caprica is the openness with which the monotheistic STO religious world is revealed, while…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…seem trivial in scale. Nevertheless in the 1980s allies of Reagan, funded illegally through the Iran-Contra connection and related schemes, were carrying out sadistic massacres in parts of countries they considered to be too leftist. Congressional Democrats were trying to stop the violence; which is what led Reagan, Oliver North, and others to develop illegal channels. Robertson cheerfully presented his piece of this puzzle as an opportunity for…

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…eds The thrust of Steven Cahn’s notable essay in the April 1969 American Philosophical Quarterly can be grasped well enough from its title: “The Irrelevance to Religion of Philosophic Proofs for the Existence of God.” Abstract formulations about a divine being, he suggests, really have nothing to do with the things that matter about religious belief: what goodies await us, what’s naughty or nice, and when, so to speak, He is coming to town. One sh…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…rms, as a post-divorce quest for self-recovery, inner healing and existential balance; her 108 chapters correspond to 108 beads on an Indian prayer necklace. Travel is a sort of prayer, she more than hints, but it’s prayer of a particular sort—with rich experience replacing an outward focus on a transcendent God. Gilbert thematizes these experiences by country. She luxuriates in the rich food of Italy; tries to still the “monkey-mind” at an Indian…