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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…at, telling the story of all the most precious Bibles in the possession of California’s Huntington Library (for whom she was curator of a 2003 museum exhibition). But this book also offers a luxurious visual walking tour through the manifold ways in which Bible-books are made, and how the people who make them also make them meaningful. Dancing between texts as diverse as the gloriously illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels, to the resplendent mechanical…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…Los Angeles Times, Elsa Prince, Eric’s mother, was a “major proponent” of California’s Proposition 8, giving $450,000 to support to the Yes on 8 campaign: Mother and son sit on the board of a family foundation that donated $8 million in 2006-07 to Christian groups involved in the Yes-on-8 effort, including $300,000 to Focus on the Family, on whose board she sits. Focus on the Family gave $450,000 to Proposition 8 and $1.35 million to the 22 same-…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…pport for Israel dehumanizes us.” Christian and Jewish leaders in Southern California have formed an organization called Christians Concerned About Christian Zionism. They held a conference on the issue: “Christian Zionism: Rapture and the Holy Land, Theology, and Politics” on October 4 at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. “We have to wake up Christians,” said the Rev. Gwynne Guibord, of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. “We have to show Christian…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…executive elder of the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church of Berkeley, California, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating an Oakland law mandating a buffer between protesters and clinic patients. Hoye, who targets women entering abortion clinics to “draw attention to the devastating impact abortion has had on the African-American community,” was given the option of serving his 30 days through community service and a $1,100 fine—a sente…

RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…ncisive philosopher, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. By connecting Martin Heidegger’s understanding of life in the shadow of death with how certain Christian mystics thought of life under the gaze of God, he uncovered their common approach to human nature. To be made in the image of God, a God whose likeness we see only incompletely and through its absence in the world, means that our own definition…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…San Diego rescinded an invitation which had been made to her (she lives in California now) to teach ecological theology part-time for a semester at the school. The provost gave in to a right-wing group which had objected to Ruether being on the board of Catholics for Choice in Washington. Two thousand letters flooded the provost’s office upbraiding the university for its decision. “It signals,” Ruether says mildly, “something very disturbing about…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…g) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She’s the author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army and co-editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture. Call me an ass-kisser, but my money is on Jeff Sharlet’s The Family (Harper) as one of the year’s best and most important books about religion and politics. Sharlet’s in-depth investigation o…

Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…terview with the Reverend Rick Warren, founder of the Saddleback Church in California. Though it may have begun as a publicity tour for Warren’s new book on Christmas, it ended as a surreal biblical sojourn into fictional foreign policy. Watch it here, courtesy of Think Progress: And here’s a transcript of the crucial moment in question (my emphases in bold): HANNITY: Can you talk to rogue dictators? Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, wants to wipe…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ugh she began her career in the 1940’s directing choirs in the Bay area of California, her status as an educator cannot be reduced to her role as trailblazer for African American women. Her six-decade career includes teaching Christian education at the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School (now American Baptist Seminary of the West), Colgate Rochester Divinity School, the inaugural dean of Sister’s Chapel at Spelman College and professor of homiletics…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…ependent writes that after spending a half a million dollars in support of California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, Focus on the Family is preparing for a second round of layoffs, having laid off 46 workers just two months ago: This is the third year that Focus has laid off employees due to budget cuts. In its heyday, the ministry, which relocated to Colorado Springs from Arcadia, Calif., in 1991, employed more than 1,500 people. Many of thos…