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A Nazi, a Jewish Prisoner, and a “Magic” Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong

By Julia Seymour

…e that romance between a Jewish prisoner and a Nazi commander violates any spirit of consent. In the portions of the book when Stella/Hadassah wrestles with her feelings about Aric, I was reminded of the guilt rape survivors sometimes feel when their bodies responded to the act of violation in a different way than their heads and spirits were. No matter how humane the Nazi in question was made to seem—he had the power to kill her or those she love…

Trump Gives Davos Press Credentials to Racist Conspiracy Outlet. Again.

By Gordon Haber

…d, a “kosher cover-up”; that fellow pseudo-journalist Ben Shapiro has “the spirit of anti-Christ”; that Mark Zuckerberg is of “the synagogue of Satan”; and that abortion in America is the fault of “powerful, rich Jews.” Yet the White House still let TruNews “cover” this week’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. TruNews’s “reporting” from Davos won’t disappoint its critics: hard-hitting segments include, among other things, the details of…

Life as a Game Show: Reading Slumdog Millionaire

By Paul Courtright

…ed Fox Searchlight more than a hundred and thirty million, is nominated for 10 Oscars (including Best Picture) and already boasts 60 awards from various academies and guilds. European and American audiences have embraced it, though Indian viewers—in India and abroad—have had a more ambivalent response. Some celebrate the film as a long-overdue recognition of Indian cinema, while others found that the attention to Mumbai’s slums and underworld mere…

The Morning After

By Amina Wadud

…s right now. For one thing, I really did take this as a good thing, in the spirit of the early warning system. Since the time my friend said, you have to be invited by Allah to make the hajj; I have been in various states of preparation. I’ve been preparing to receive the invitation, preparing to recognize it when it is given, and preparing to accept it. I considered it a mandate to do whatever was necessary to put me in the right place for it all…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…n the Heritage Foundation began reaching out to social conservatives in the 1990s to win support for tax cuts even for the wealthy, and the success of that outreach can be seen not only in McClusky’s work at FRC Action but in Mike Huckabee’s support for a national sales tax, and the antitax politics of Christian conservatives like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Trickle-down economics has trickled down to Christian conservatives, as a September…

Seventh-Day Smackdown!

By Daniel Schultz

…people try to step around real conflict with mushy criticism “offered in a spirit of reconciliation and dialogue.” It’s healthier and more efficient sometimes to spell out simply and directly what it is that you think people have done wrong, and why. That way it can be discussed openly and honestly and without a lot of passive-aggressive nonsense. Extra points for marshaling scriptural evidence, while we’re at it. Yes, there are many ways to read…

Why Christians Should Not Host Their Own Passover Seders

By Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy

…r year. It is possible to study the celebration of Passover as a Christian spiritual group if it is done with respect and knowledge. My own church hosts a Mediterranean potluck with hummus, pitas, falafel, and we read the Passover story from the Bible, look at haggadot of all types and discuss the elements—but do not actually go through the ritual of the seder. We leave speculation of which prophecies Jesus fulfilled for a different time and focus…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…the upstart Protestants” during the Eastern Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem in 1672. He also quotes at length from a confession written at that synod. But it was Eastern Orthodox leaders who gathered at the Eastern Orthodox Synod, not Catholics. Still, I found myself unexpectedly moved by this book. In aggregate, all these stories of cannibalism—ravenous fish mothers eating their fry; doomed Donner Party pioneers roasting their dead—make for a kind o…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…donism), and biodynamic farmers, whose movement grew out of the explicitly spiritual work of Rudolph Steiner, are quite comfortable with spiritual, cosmological language. Scholar Melissa Caldwell points out that in Russia, “‘natural foods’ philosophies represent the natural environment as a source of sociability and spirituality,” and Russians feel nature “not only produces but also nourishes and protects the Russian nation.” Personal gardening is…

Deifying Pope Francis Obscures Where He’s So So Right, So So Wrong

By Daniel C. Maguire

…r on his grandchildren. The crowds grabbing at the pope’s garb were in the spirit of the sickly woman in Matthew’s gospel who knew she would be healed if she could but touch the hem of his garment. Paul and Barnabas were impressive figures also and they had a devil of a time convincing the people of Lystra that they were guys and not gods. But pause and peek through the pious papal haze and you will see that Francis is a man; a truly great man in…