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GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…ming be any different? Indeed, divergent religious groups can often agree that in order to progress on issues that so greatly impact society, spiritual and cultural traditions must be considered. Hundreds of millions of people around the world practice the religions surveyed in this collection, which should make their preferences all the more salient for legislators. Believers may disagree on many things, but our collective health and well-being,…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…rence had little knowledge of evolutionary theory and thought incorrectly that Darwin put forth the idea that man came from monkeys, according to the New York Times. (In fact, he said we share a common ancestor.) According to the Times, “the British Council framed the conference to seek middle ground, more than to promote confrontation. While challenging a religious society to think seriously about evolution, it emphasized the possibility of recon…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…is diary, Eisenhower referred to Israelis as ‘‘Israelites,’’ and it seems that he imagined that these modern Israelites were deeply religious. When an aide explained to the president that the Israeli leadership was assertively secular, he was astonished. This ‘‘biblical’’ reading of modern Israel also surfaced in American popular culture. Ten years after Israel’s establishment and five years after Truman’s Cyrus comment, Leon Uris published his no…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…im was started by students at YCC.) This is truly a revolutionary change. What does it look like? What does it mean? Social Activist Jews Studying Talmud? On a Sunday morning in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, twenty people gather around a table to study Jewish texts. The texts are out of the classical canon: the Bible, of course, but also the third-century Mishnah and its sixth-century commentary, the Babylonian Talmud, and the medieval…

How Intelligent Design Advocates Helped Shape the Christian Right’s Texas Curriculum Standards

By Lauri Lebo

…tion” even though they forgot to mention that concept in the one document that outlines the code by which this nation would be governed. In the article, Dunbar outlines a proposed legal strategy to defend linking the two documents: Dunbar began the lecture by discussing a national day of thanksgiving that Gen. George Washington called for after the defeat of the British at Saratoga in 1777—showing, in her reckoning, a religious base in the thinkin…

Israeli Right Demonizes Israeli Left, With American Money

By Diane Winston

…ettlements. Im Tirtzu’s Web site calls for “a second Zionist revolution.” That begs the question: who and what will be overthrown? At the very least, the flap over Chazan has trained a spotlight on two American nonprofits that are channeling millions of dollars to support two very different visions of Israel. Sounds like a story in the making. But it’s also salient that Israel—long heralded as the only American-style democracy in the Middle East—m…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…doubting the role of humans in climate change is because he doesn’t think that humans actually have that much impact on the earth. “I think we like to think we do,” he said. “I think we tend to think we’re more important than we are.” Though Kopp, a forester by training, presents himself as well-versed in the scientific debate, there are religious roots at the heart of his arguments. His research as a forester was on fire-dependent plant species,…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…the faithful are leaving the Church—for the most part, they aren’t. It’s that the hierarchy itself is cracking. “What I would like to see is actually Christian honest people running the shop,” said Sinead O’Connor, speaking on CNN about her faith as a Catholic woman and the need for governmental change in the Church. “It seems to me that the Vatican don’t actually believe in God at all. They’re certainly not acting like they believe in a God that…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…world. The Reconstructionists possess a “postmillennial” view of history. That is, they believe that Christ will return to earth only after the thousand years of religious rule that characterizes the Christian idea of the millennium, and therefore Christians have an obligation to provide the political and social conditions that will make Christ’s return possible. “Premillennialists,” on the other hand, hold the view that the thousand years of Chri…

Alums Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Christian College

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s,” repealing the policy is apparently not one of the steps on the table. What that really means is, no matter what administrators might do, gay and lesbian kids will still be terrified to be who they are on campus, whether they are “practicing” or not. There are many Christian colleges and universities around the country who have these kinds of policies. So many, in fact, that Soulforce—a gay and lesbian Christian justice organization—has organiz…