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Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…ists to rise up against an Empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young men and women to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom’s cause. Hope is what led me here today—with a father from Kenya; a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. It is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our dest…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…stalls queer rights, supports a ban on abortion, and sanctified the war in Iraq. Historically, only the defeat of this stream has served to expand democracy. (Sekou, 2009) This self-righteous attitude that takes aim at enemies who must be defeated has always been one of the temptations of the prophetic religious tradition, with its iconography of the lone, persecuted prophet. Taken to its extreme, this posture on the religious left can paradoxical…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…M. Hutchens of the Christian Zionist “Jerusalem Connection,” who has been promoting the piece. Why? Bartholomew: “I can see why Freund would enthuse over this, but it’s less clear why a conservative evangelical like Hutchens would want to promote the idea of 500,000 to 1 million Portuguese and Spaniards embracing a religion other than Christianity. Such are the mysteries of Christian Zionism.” Coral Ridge Ministries Produces Is Jesus God?: Since…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ddle years of the 20th century survived as the language of Kurdish Jews in Iraq. Setting off to his father’s homeland at the worst possible time, Sabar tells the story of Aramaic as well as the unique set of circumstances that brought his family to Los Angeles, where his father is now not only a scholar and preserver of the language of his raising, but occasionally shares his knowledge of Aramaic with Hollywood directors hungry to add a little lan…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…ing to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and justifying the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the ambivalences and valences of Abraham Lincoln’s invocation of God during the torturous American Civil War is miles away from current President Barack Obama’s easy evangelical sensibilities about faith in his God. God is My Homeboy Of course beyond all of these vexing theological questions on the political scene are the numerous ways the term is…

Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e placed next to the nativity display and the sign posted by atheist group Freedom From Religion. Westboro’s sign rewrites the lyrics to popular holiday tune “Santa Claus is Coming To Town” to proclaim instead that belief in Santa Claus is responsible for the faltering economy and soldiers’ deaths. If you haven’t had a meal recently, you might take a gander at some of the lyrics the creative brain trust at Westboro has cooked up, like: Don’t leave…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…blems in the economy, end the armed incursion into the sovereign nation of Iraq, catch Osama bin Laden, turn water into wine, fix the health care system, give negroes their 40 acres and a mule, end our dependence on foreign oil, fix the public school system, bring jobs back from overseas, resolve the housing crisis, restore America’s reputation around the world, increase the minimum wage, get crunk in the White House, ensure equality among all peo…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…lar, the knowledge of the early Islamic world, especially as it is used to promote proper behavior, remains in the anecdotal, atomized form, and should only be put into narrative history by those qualified to do so, the educated, religious elite. The first attempt to write a full narrative biography of Muhammad was begun toward the end of the first Islamic century and completed shortly after the centenary of Muhammad’s death (632 C.E.). The author…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…azine or Bill Moyer’s television reporting. Consider, for example, how the Iraq war was opposed by most sectors of world Christianity, including most US mainline Protestant leaders. This was less a failure to speak than a resistance to listening. Although George Bush claims to be Methodist, he refused to meet with Methodist bishops to discuss the war. In 2006, the United Church of Christ tried to buy television ads promoting religious diversity un…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…heir seventies, so far have refused to relinquish their hold on the movement. Nor is it clear that the rising generation of leadership has the imagination or the fortitude to move beyond the old issues of abortion and homosexuality to embrace other “moral issues” such as the war in Iraq, this adminstration’s persistent use of torture or the despoiling of the environment, God’s creation, in the interest of corporate profits. The failure of the gath…