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Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…a touch of ethnic/racial cleansing? Right-wing ranters like Limbaugh say that it does because they worry that liberal guilt regarding Liberia might cause us to foolishly admit more of “them”—the Ebola- contaminated ones—to our homeland hospitals. I say that it matters because, as a practical matter, our shared history with Liberia ought to make it possible for us to be more strategically helpful in the Ebola crisis rather than pretend that Liberi…

Yeshiva is Likely to Win Its Battle Against LGBTQ Group — But Do Jewish Orgs Really Want to Empower a Militant Christian Movement?

By Orit Avishai

…, in recent years, this sweeping illiberal agenda has weaponized religious freedom to promote a militant, literal, and illiberal Christian ideology that embraces Christianity as a bedrock American identity. This agenda not only claims a special place for religion in American culture but demands that the laws of the land be based on Christian morals, ethics, and history. In other words, it has its sights set on the rights and liberties not of relig…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…their politics or business philosophies as “based” in the Bible, I detail what that statement and interpretive behavior entails. In one of my favorite moments of self-admission, Ziglar referred to his take on the story of David and Goliath—which he interpreted as supporting pull-your-bootstraps-up striving and meritocratic work—as “slightly Ziglarized.” That he was applying a personalized reading of a text gets at the dynamic, multi-faceted relati…

Mark Twain’s Blasphemy

By Michael A. Elliott

…of an adolescent boy, Tom Sawyer, who knows that Jim has already been set free by his owner. That Twain’s riotous vernacular—its mixture of sly comedy and broad parody, its thick nostalgia for a fading river culture—somehow makes it possible to read this cruel narrative with pleasure constitutes an artistic achievement of the highest order, but a deeply perverse one. What other word better describes a story in which an escaping slave is drawn by…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…f her outspokenness before. Come on! I am hoping there is more to it than that, because at that point, it becomes a plot device and little more. I am hoping she knew what she was doing and that there’s a certain degree of calculation behind the public confession. It becomes clear with each installment that Caprica is a soap opera with science fiction elements, while Battlestar Galactica was space opera with melodramatic elements. It’s hard to thin…

Biblical Capitalism, Tony Perkins Edition

By Sarah Posner

…l corporations and Wall Street hucksters? But here’s the kicker: The fact that Jesus chose the free market system as the basis for this parable should not be overlooked. When the nobleman returns, after being established as king – a stand-in for Jesus – he calls all his servants together to see what they had accomplished in his absence. Ah. The kingdom Jesus is expecting upon his return is a free market system? Novel. Perkins goes on to argue that…

Why I’m Not An Organ Donor

By Kristel Clayville

…I don’t think we need our organs for some kind of bodily resurrection, if that’s what you mean. [I’m performing my own PLOF-iness.] PLOF: Aren’t religions pro organ donation? Me: If you ask a rabbi, minister, priest, or imam if saving someone’s life is ok, then they usually say yes. PLOF: So they’re on board. Me: As long as organ donation is framed as “saving someone’s life,” then sure. But it’s not really so simple. Organ transplantation in the U…

Porn, Abuse, or Just Plain Incompatibility… Is Divorce Ever a Sin?

By Daniel Schultz

…you stay married no matter what. Otherwise, it’s a sin. Gushee might say that’s not what he’s arguing, that of course spouses can leave abusers, but his rhetorical strategy is exactly how battered women get the idea that the church wants them to stay in violent relationships. When the emphasis is all on the sin of divorce without an explicit proclamation that abuse is not acceptable, that IT breaks the covenant of marriage, what do you expect the…

The Economy is Sacred, Stupid

By Gary Laderman

…is populated by voting citizens who idolize financial success and believe that a free market and the pursuit of individual wealth is ordained by a God who favors the rich over the poor, free market over social justice, capital investment over government services. But these religious values are not simply tied to such trite religious notions as “belief” or “worship.” No, the religious cult that is taking over local politics and church pews, state…

In Vitro v. Dignitas Personae: Teacher Fired for Fertility Treatment Sues Diocese

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ht in any principle external to man, or superior to him, but simply in the free will of individuals; that the authority in the State comes from the people only; and that, just as every man’s individual reason is his only rule of life, so the collective reason of the community should be the supreme guide in the management of all public affairs. In Libertas, freedom—like genitals and sperm and eggs—is “ordered” to something by God. It’s not just a p…