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Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…no pleasurable parts of this book. In fact, it’s really grim. People with relatively good intentions did bad things. But even worse, inmates are subject to dreadful and debasing treatment. Reading about their experiences can be rough going. This book might piss some people off. Readers with a strong commitment to an overly simple narrative of evangelical political engagement won’t like the book. Readers with nostalgia for the early republic or ant…

Obama Reverses Bush Stem Cell Restrictions, Time to Step Up

By Frances Kissling

…vocate of this research in the Senate and incurred the wrath of anti-stem cell religionists. A positive result of the President’s decision to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research will be greater government oversight of the research; ethical guidelines will be developed. Will we permit embryos to be created exclusively for their stem cells? Will we only use embryos that are to be discarded in assisted reproduction? What about embry…

Will SCOTUS Call the “Bluff” of Religious Liberty Activists?

By Kara Loewentheil

…laims had ruled against them, but then the 8th Circuit upheld a grant of preliminary relief in one of these cases, and now here we are, with the Supreme Court granting cert to several of the consolidated cases to consider a variety of questions involving NPROs’ objections to contraceptive coverage and RFRA’s requirements. At bottom though, the question is fairly simple: Is the Supreme Court going to call the objectors’ bluff? I don’t say “bluff” b…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…usands on top of thousands coming out to worship Jesus and to hear the gospel of music. The promoters had the greatest integrity and fought very hard for this to continue on, but the mayor office systematically and continuously shut it down…. This is unfortunate, this is intolerant, these are bully tactics simply because of stances I took; never ever demeaning, never ever derogatorily addressing any, any lifestyle. But this is a civil rights infri…

Massacre Of Islamists By Egyptian Military Likely Strategic

By Haroon Moghul

…ite the hand in creating. Be sure to consider, too, in America’s reaction to the violence, that every Islamist movement across the world is paying close attention, shaken in their assumptions and sense of security, while jihadi movements likely feel themselves to be vindicated. Ayman al-Zawahiri had condemned the Brotherhood for deciding to take part in elections, and you can bet he, like so many other cynical actors, greets this bloodshed with gl…

India’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”

By Murali Balaji

…too simplistic to say that it’s a Left-Right conflict, although the Indian elections helped to cast it as such. Instead, this debate has been shaped across philosophical, ideological, political religious, class, and caste lines, in which sides that have competing interests occasionally join forces or those with similar goals find themselves as enemies. The story begins in the final years of the Indian independence movement, when the divisions amon…

Will Hate Crime Laws Redeem Us All?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…religion (regardless of whether compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief), speech, expression, or association…” Despite the exception, the religious right continues its “hair-on-fire” hysterics about how the law discriminates against them. Their chief complaint is that all crimes are “hate crimes” and such special laws are not needed. But, as David Saperstein wisely reminds us, hate crimes are often not just directed at the parti…

Way Beyond Atheism: God Does Not (Not) Exist

By Paul Wallace

…mocks. In this work, Thomas employs analogical language in order to speak freely of God’s attributes without the possibility of confusing them with the attributes of, say, fire or kingship or love or being. Finally one may say that negative theology is just a mind game that has nothing to do with reality; certainly people who do such theology never really stop believing in God. If only this were true. The language of the apophatic theologian is t…

‘Good Wife’ Alicia Florrick is an Atheist (and Drinks a Lot)

By Lisa Webster

…same episode, equally direct: Alicia: I can’t believe in God, Grace. Grace: I know… why not? Alicia: I don’t feel it the way you do. I don’t feel the need. Grace: Then what’s the struggle? Alicia: … Politics. Good writing (which is why I watch, I always tell myself). Or maybe it is the red wine. Anyway, the thing that’s interesting is that the writers don’t seem to be coming down hard on either side. Unless of course Alicia ends up getting God. Bu…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…retrogressive, exclusionary, and misogynist. Quite an agenda to defy. “I feel both helpless and urgent,” she says. But life, wisdom, is in the community. “Catholicism is an important expression of historical Christianity in the West, and its reform is vital to many around the world who are part of this church, and others affected by its presence and power.” As one who witnessed the machinations of the Vatican delegation at the United Nations aroun…