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Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.

By Lucas McCracken

…n show that “modernized” or “modernizing” nations, like the United States, China, Australia, Thailand, Czech Republic, and many more are becoming less religious by the day. Plus, the authors see good reasons to believe that this trend will continue for years to come. Beyond Doubt is written like a victory speech. It delivers a comforting message to nonbelievers and anyone else worried that Christianity—particularly its evangelical iterations—will…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…rocess their discriminatory work permits. These “guest” workers, who today number between 250,000 and 400,000 (half of whom are illegal) did not only toil. They fell in love and established families and had children, probably more than 2,000 children, who were sent to state-run schools like Tel Aviv’s Bialik-Rogozin to learn with young Israelis their age to read, to write and to add and subtract—in Hebrew. They also were taught about the miraculou…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…. So far, it’s the best season yet. Past seasons certainly inflicted some fairly can-they-even-do-that-on-basic-cable moments on the tender-hearted. Still, this time around there’s plenty going on in just the first episode that competes with the Minotaur sex of yesteryear. Ghosts in rubber bondage suits now seem so 2011. Lady Gaga somehow managed to upstage herself in an early scene that opens as a highly stylized outdoor viewing of Nosferatu and…

Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…, a giant in scholarship and stature, was Salo Baron, who held the first chair in Jewish history at an American University (Columbia University). Baron trained generations of students who rose in the ranks of American academe. Baron dedicated much of his career to correct what he felt was an inaccurate assessment of Jewish history as “lachrymose.” The lachrymose approach presented Jewish history as just one bloody antisemitic act after another. Th…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…, in publishing early pictures of war’s death and destruction in Spain and China, Life stated, “Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.” This last line is crucial, and applies as well to today’s wars as it did to the conflicts of a half century ago. By the 1960s, it was film that brought us images of death. Abraham Zapruder’s visual documentation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination creates one type of image: a single…

A Former Christian Coalition Activist Tells All

By Sarah Posner

…beloved Southern Baptist missionary who spent forty years evangelizing in China. “Going into all the world, sharing the faith, and making disciples,” she now says, echoing the missionary line, “that sounded very exotic.” Nearly twenty years later, White found herself in Mexico, the wife of a young man she met at church soon after she enrolled at Baylor University, where the two would work as missionaries for a controversial charismatic group, sin…

Secret Treasure, Bible’s Real Housewives, & ‘Dear Lord, please don’t let me f-up’

By Michael J. Altman

…officials are conflicted over how to deal with the rise of Christianity in China. Investigators found billions of dollars worth of treasure in the vaults beneath a southern Indian temple. The Vatican is opening up its Secret Archives to reveal 100 previously unseen documents to the public. The documents cover the period of Pope Pius XII’s World War II papacy and the trial of Galileo. Speaking of Pius XII, a woman has claimed he miraculously cured …

A Call for Heresy

By Anouar Majid

…the Chinese be interested in my book? I am not sure. I wasn’t thinking of China or Vietnam when I was writing. I was thinking of Muslims and Americans, perhaps Westerners in general. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? Just inform—although I can’t control the last two outcomes. If I had to choose between pissing people off or giving them pleasure, I’d rather do the latter. But someone is still bound to get pi…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…th stories claim that Hvistendahl’s extensive research on sex selection in China, India, and Korea (countries where sex-selective abortion is an actual problem) supports a ban on abortion in America. I contacted Hvistendahl about her work. She seems frustrated with the way sex-selection abortion is being leveraged in America for political gain. She told me via email, “It’s a shame that anti-abortion activists in the U.S. are coming at this with th…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…re and more important research takes place in non-Christian countries like China and Japan and by their nationals working in the West, a totally theology-centric narrative seems less and less plausible. But even an anecdotal survey of what ways of thinking uphold the everyday habits of science today don’t quickly draw one’s mind to religion, nor do they necessarily stand in opposition to it. As in any profession, there are professionals competing…