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Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?

By Eric Reitan

…therapy. The account isn’t one that Browning invented—it’s far older than that. What Browning did was use the metaphor of psychotherapy to elucidate this old and profound understanding of how the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus could have a truly redemptive power in the world. Browning begins by noting that all of us desire to be judged as valuable by some standard of achievement—something that earlier theologians called “works…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…sistent static core—I, too, would be skeptical. I want to argue, however, that the reason I believe Dionne is right is that a more thoroughgoing and measurable shift is happening within the evangelical community, one that represents not simply a broader agenda but also a significantly different spirit and worldview. Last week, Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University and author of The Future of…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…dent of the kind you bring forward. Now, do you know or do you not know, Mahatma, what a concentration camp is like and what goes on there? Do you know of the torments in the concentration camp, of its methods of slow and quick slaughter? I cannot assume that you know of this; for then this tragicomic utterance “of almost the same type” could scarcely have crossed your lips. Indians were despised and despicably treated in South Africa. But they we…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…‘higher power,’ and his doubts about the afterlife.” Smith also reported that Mansfield said in the interview that he entered Trinity having heard “that Obama’s church was a cult, something un-Christian, that Reverend Wright was a nut,” but emerged with the view that it is “a pretty solid Christian church.” In the context of the 2008 election, at at time when there is a great fear on the right that Obama might lure some evangelical voters away fr…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

…And there are those “anonymous Christians,” or involuntary Christians…was that Rahner who devised that category? Does anyone outside of seminary or grad school read mid-century German Catholic theologians? We all might as well, if we’re going to debate terms. It might open up some possibilities. Anyway, Margaret Cho is a Christian. And she has delivered a gorgeous, eloquent rant to that effect—“I’m a Christian, you F***ers.” It is too profane to r…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…a 1998 ban on same-sex marriage, which she defended by saying: “I believe that honoring the family structure is that important” — an emphasis on structure that surely rings true to “pro family” advocates of complementarian marriage roles. How does Palin square these nods to traditionalist family structure with her national aspirations? Through a disclaimer familiar among the women leaders of the antifeminist movement (like Phyllis Schlafy, the gra…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…. They are locked up, they have nothing better to do, and they share only that one joke-book. But what explains the constant number-calling around homosexuality in so many American churches? Why do we rehearse arguments most anyone active in church has already heard dozens of time? Why do we behave like prisoners? I don’t think that long-term veterans of church debates have much hope that undecided people will be persuaded by the repetition. Most…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…ority, simply put; and when he wrote from the “stuff inside” he channeled that hate into blistering condemnations of corruption that resulted in at least two prison sentences for the deserving. When Sarah Palin, reading a speech by McCain speechwriter Michael Scully, declared “A writer declared: ‘We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity,’” she passed right over the stuff inside to stand blinking behind her $36…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…beyond the argument that evolution doesn’t answer everything. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they are not actively promoting the use of “supplemental materials” like pro-intelligent design textbooks such as Pandas and People, used in Dover, and its follow-up, The Design of Life. Evangelicals may not realize it, but such an approach is a risky strategy. It’s not just bad science, it’s bad theology. Such dichotomy forces students to choose betwe…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ically and presently occur around the world. The reality of the matter is that what we see in religious studies classes across the United States is the great variety of manners in which religions happen in and through their rituals and practices, through their symbolic and communal exchanges, and, yes, in light of and sometimes in spite of their in-the-head beliefs. Two of the more usefully analytic definitions of religion that I offer my students…