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Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…Pankaj Mishra praised the work as “staggeringly comprehensive,” and noted that “it is impossible not to admire a book that strides so intrepidly into a polemical arena almost as treacherous as Israel-Arab relations. The book was published the following year in India and was critically acclaimed. The year it was published Doniger received one of what would become several awards in India. The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award was given…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…ditions change over time. However, to tell people of a different religion that they don’t know what their religious rituals actually mean is ipso facto not a historical argument but a sectarian one. The claim that Christians unknowingly practice a Pagan mystery religion has a long history combining sectarian claims with goofy pseudo-scholarship. It was Protestant Reformers, in fact, who first accused their Catholic rivals of adulterating Christian…

Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…, on April 24, the House voted in strong support of HR 1054, a resolution that affirmed that “ ‘person’ means a human being at all stages of human development of life, including the state of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning, or condition of dependency[.]” As HR1054 was discussed on the floor, its sponsor, Rep. Vaughan, wept openly as he exhorted his fellow legislators to support the non-binding resolutio…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…int here is not to engage these claims, in large part because we all know that little of what we say is likely to convince anybody of anything they don’t already believe. For professional public intellectuals like Gordis, this is a way to stay in the news. For academics such as myself, it is a way to feel relevant when most days we teach a small cadre of wonderful undergraduate and graduate students and toil away at scholarship that few people wil…

Tennessee Anti-Evolution Update

By Lauri Lebo

…lation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes intelligent design. David Fowler, head of the conservative Christian Family Action Council of Tennessee, which is affiliated with Focus on the Family, and is one of the bill’s primary lobbyists. In defending the bill’s language, he has tried to draw on comparisons to the famous Scopes monkey trial that took place 86 years ago in his state. “…[T]oday’s evolution…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…than act as an usher or sit on a church governing body. Moreover, my child hates church, almost as much as he hates vegetables, and I cannot readily explain to him why he has to go when I myself would rather not. Does this make me completely lame? Perhaps. It is certainly true, at least from a certain perspective, that it is easier to stay home on Sunday mornings (or Friday or Saturday evenings, as the case may be) than to go listen to the bland p…

Supreme Court OKs State Funding Scheme for Religious Schools and Bars Challenges

By Peter Laarman

…have a fine Christian education—so how bad can it be? Plenty bad. Worst of all is the “wink wink” element involved, as the nation’s highest court now chooses to lend its imprimatur to a scheme that was explicitly hatched as a shameless end run around Mr. Jefferson’s Wall of Separation. Where is Original Intent now, you might ask? Then again, don’t bother….

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…er on LGBTQ issues.” I think many of them are clear-eyed in the knowledge that that is not about to happen — not because of a coalition break-up, but simply because that’s not something Wallis wants to do. (It’s hard to be an “outspoken leader on LGBTQ issues” if you believe the Bible does not permit same-sex marriage.) They’re saying, simply, that the organization acted in a cowardly way by rejecting the innocuous ad. I’d add one more note to McL…

‘Soul of Yoga’ at Stake in Texas Regulation Push

By Andrea R. Jain

…late such a complex system. J. Brown, a yoga advocate in New York, argues that yoga is “sacred,” that it is an “all-encompassing whole Truth,” and that it functions to explore the “self, health, and life.” A broader evaluation of American society’s views on yoga also shows that a significant number attribute religious dimensions to it. Consider a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which found that 39% of liberals believe yoga…

Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

By Bernard Schweizer

…s actually want to be read biographically. Until recently, the idea of God-hatred was so explosive that to mention it publicly would have risked ruining an author’s career. But carefully packaged as the view of a character, an author could still give vent to his forbidden rage, perhaps in the hope of being found out by the more “discriminating readers.” Alternatively, authors may simply be conflicted or unsure about certain points of their own bel…