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Be Prepared: Preachers’ Daughters, Episode Eight

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ends both the Faith Trust Institute and the Religious Institute. The National Alliance on Mental Illness also has resources specifically for faith communities. 3. Really investigate what help is available in your area—both its presence and its quality. Getting the names and numbers for referrals is a good first step, but you can do much more than that. Which counselors in the area can be trusted not to blame a victim for his or her own abuse? Whi…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…. Just because you excel in the sciences doesn’t mean anything for your moral quality. The Soviet Union made tremendous leaps in science and technology, and actively contributed to the planet’s store of knowledge and capability. The first satellite in space. The first animal in space. The first human being in space. The same Soviet Union killed, in the name of scientific materialism and in the interests of atheism, millions upon millions of people…

New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

By Gordon Haber

…secret “Marxists” like Jim Wallis, and that humanism can be “traced to a philosophy called Modernism” (there’s a whiff of David Barton, who happens to have blurbed his book, in that one). Godonomics refers to Big Thinkers like Adam Smith and John Maynard, though Hovind displays so little understanding of their ideas that it’s clear he hasn’t read their books—the aforementioned “Modernists,” according to Hovind, are Darwin, Nietzsche and Marx. It i…

“I’m a Creationist,” Says Former Times Tech Writer, Heffernan

By Michael Schulson

…inars. Incuriosity may be a flaw in a journalist, but Heffernan’s bigger sin is to speak flippantly (not humorously, or cleverly, or angrily, but flippantly; with intellect but no care) about ideas that matter deeply to people. And that’s something no writer should do—especially when talking about religion. Then again, it’s never wise to take trolls too seriously. Heffernan has clearly mastered a strategy that’s been used by plenty of anti-evolut…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…itgeist draws on this skeptical tradition but blends it with a conspiratorial paranoia. The film offers a detailed step-by-step comparison between Jesus and various sun-worshiping cults of the ancient world. Comparing Jesus to the Egyptian god Horus, the film outlines how Jesus was a mythic figure derived from pagan sun worship. He was part of a long line of mythic figures including Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, and Mithra. They were all born of virgi…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…ctions—perhaps may even make it more likely.” The personal and organizational fallout for SGM and in the churches named as defendants—aside from legal consequences—remains to be seen. The second amended lawsuit named well-known, long-time members as well as a former pastor at CLC as perpetrators, and added graphic detail to previous accuasations that Covenant Life Church (CLC) harbored a “pedophilia ring” in which children were passed between perp…

Mental Health is a Spiritual and Religious Issue

By Joanna Brooks

…illness is a religious one. One in five families in this country face mental illness. Not only are resources for addressing mental health issues drastically limited in this country, but an incredible stigma surrounds its diagnosis and treatment. (God bless NBA player Ron Artest for doing his best to combat it.) From the time I was a little girl well into my young adulthood, I had serious bouts with depression: even at ten years old, I was so sad,…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…onal relations and statecraft taken by itself can and has obfuscated these parallels to a considerable extent, since political realism more than ethics and moral reasoning frequently informed such a genre. Consultation of a broader repertoire of sources allows one to retrieve multiple perspectives on the permissibility of military activity and allows one to better comprehend the historical reasons for the transformation of the Qur’anic defensive j…

Apoplectic about Abortion: One Woman’s Emotional Roller Coaster

By Donna Schaper

…as his potty room, the only place he is worthy of sex. Even if it becomes “illegal” in its reproductive consequences, people are going to have sex. Some will have it in bathrooms; others will have it on the internet when their married lives start to bore them. Republicans are also politically hypocritical. They say out of one side of their mouth, “less government,” and out of the other, “more moral policing by big government.” Did these electeds n…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…of life, and somehow it runs down one track and their sexual identity runs parallel. How they imbricate is a big question. That’s interesting, this question of knowledge, because what underpins almost any discussion of gayness in gospel music is the simultaneous operation of different kinds of knowledge: there’s orthodox or official knowledge (what people claim to know); privileged knowledge (a few really know and talk privately); tacit knowledge…