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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…licit enough to make most founding fathers uncomfortable with its public expression of private matters—how can this view be so widely held? Is it because, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama has been sitting in his office, snipping away with his scissors and cutting out the relatively few passages of the Bible that he has deemed worthy of inclusion in his own expurgated text of trustworthy Gospel sayings? Is it because, like Andrew Jackson, he has opened…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…ten are, there is no protective benefit against deep danger and slide into profound problems. Do you think that spiritual people are ever uncomfortable seeing belief described in such pragmatic terms? The person who was most moved by this of anyone was a deeply devout priest. I think it’s a tribute to the hunger of people to understand spirituality through our lived human existence. I just wonder if I’ll be standing in synagogue one day and sudden…

Mother (Nature) Will Eat You: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rk Film Festival, along with about 700 other attendees. I wish I had their phone numbers; even the disgusted dozens who walked out halfway through. I’d like to call them at 3:00 a.m. and ask what they are thinking about, what they are dreaming, if indeed they are sleeping. I need some therapy. This is one messed-up film. The beauty of Antichrist is in distinct contrast to many of von Trier’s previous films. From the early 1990s until now, his film…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…id as so many other observant Mormons: she searched her heart and mind and prayed earnestly for guidance. Then, she received an answer that she should not support the proposed ban on same-sex marriage. On the internet, she found Mormons for Marriage, a website founded by Laura Compton, a California Mormon and mother of two, to offer community to LDS people who respectfully opposed their church’s stance on Proposition 8. When Mormons for Marriage s…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…ue the truth. I think people appreciate that. The two nuns that were there probably went home and prayed for me, but they also came and had champagne with me. The bond was not broken. That’s a good sign of maturity in the culture. You have a lot of historical information and theological background in this book that religion students would already know. So was this for a more mainstream audience? I wrote it because I was annoyed with some writers b…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…nd commitment that he was looking for a nominee that supported the right ofprivacy, specifically reproductive rights, and this nominee is consistent with that commitment of his and her statements when she was before the Senate on the Solicitor General confirmation. So we feel comfortable about her commitment to reproductive rights, to Roe v. Wade, and to stare decisis, and we feel confident about President Obama’s commitment to find a justice that…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ic heart of the thing—if it were not so, then why should death play such a prominent part in the very ceremony from which we should most wish to protect it? “Til death do us part,” we say, reminding ourselves in the very moment of joining that we are committing ourselves equally to an inevitable parting. How should we look upon the smiling faces, the desperate notes, the brief snippets of biography, the inspiring hopes, the sense of infinite possi…

Joyless Primaries Grind On

By Joanna Brooks

…West, Santorum the Bible Belt. Ohio turned out just about the way the best prognosticators in the game predicted. There’s been nothing so dramatic to punch up the storyline as the anti-Mormon flare-ups we witnessed late last summer and fall. In fact, while evangelical Christians continue to opt for Santorum as the not-Romney, there is little solid data that isolates anti-Mormonism as the cause: region, social conservatism, and economic class also…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…big goals: Happiness, Purpose, and Meaningful Relationships. Once a year, Oprah makes sense to me. This process confused me until I read Paul Froese’s On Purpose: How We Create The Meaning of Life, which is released in hardback by Oxford University Press today. Froese, a sociologist, combines social theory and survey data to explore how people derive meaningfulness from their lives. You might think of On Purpose as a meta-self-help book, and a fas…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…m Chad, had asked Brewster’s husband not to attend, saying it would be inappropriate given that the constitution of the Dominican Republic does not recognize marriages by same-sex couples. United Kingdom: Church of England tells priests not to bless same-sex weddings Bishops of the Church of England adopted new guidelines this week instructing priests not to give their blessings to same-sex weddings, which will become legal in England and Wales in…