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A Seminary for Nonbelievers: Is A. C. Grayling Creating His Own Religion?

By Jessica Weisberg

…s Fraser, a philosophy professor at Oxford, complained on Twitter that the New College of the Humanities was a “new atheist school.” The Church Mouse, a popular Christian blogger, suspects that it will shut out religious students and faculty: It seems difficult to imagine how they would consider the CV of a religious professor seriously when looking to fill teaching roles. And how would they respond to a student candidate in an interview who profe…

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Still Sound

By Lauri Lebo

…ine that a new volcanic island erupts in the Galápagos chain. Suddenly an expanse of new, un-colonized land is available; new food sources will grow there. How will this new land affect finch diversification? That’s the kind of question being addressed here. But in the rush to deadline, the media all too often misses the point. And instead of an writing about an exploration of the different ways mass environmental changes impact life’s diversity,…

God in the Inauguration: JFK, Bush, and Obama

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…and response to the situation of the day. It may therefore be read as the new (or newly reelected) president’s sermon to the nation, presenting his understanding of the American creed, setting the tone for his administration and its policies, and attempting to mobilize the audience to support his proposals and his vision. Since Barack Obama is one of the most religiously voluble and theologically sophisticated of modern American politicians, I wa…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…rches opposed to same-sex marriage could be threatened with losing their tax-exempt status, and suggests that children in public schools would be taught about same-sex marriage.” A new poll conducted on behalf of four California television stations on Oct. 4 and 5—after the Yes on 8 campaign had released its Newsom ad—has seen an up-tick in support for a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in California. The San Jose Mercury News reported…

Post-Zionism or Post-Judaism?

By Brian Britt

…ss, tell remarkably similar stories of Israeli soldier-assassins who start new lives in New York. By normalizing the image of soldiers and patriots leaving Israel, The Zohan and Restless (like Steven Spielberg’s weightier Munich [2005] both normalize the difficult questions of post-Zionism. Restless, directed by Amos Kollek (son of the longtime mayor of Jerusalem), depicts the reunion of Moshe, a down-and-out Israeli poet in New York, and Tzach, t…

Mormon-Baiting Pastor’s New Fame Should Help Him Sell His New Book

By Joanna Brooks

…0 Restoring Honor rally on the National Mall and wanting to follow Beck’s example. (Jeffress also uses chapter one, by the way, to revel in the controversy he caused after using his pulpit to denounce Islam as a religion that “incites violence” and “promotes pedophilia.”) So in case anyone was unclear about the opportunism of Jeffress’ Mormon-baiting, let’s get this straight: according to the Pastor, nobody should vote for a Mormon presidential ca…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…blic school system. Meanwhile, earlier this year, conservative activist Alex Newman told the NAR-aligned Truth & Liberty Coalition that public schools are teaching a “wicked religion from the pit of hell.” Newman, whose nonprofit recently held its annual fundraiser at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, told a crowd at the NAR-influenced Turning Point USA‘s Educators Summit that “Satan wants your kids” and that children in public schools are under spiritua…

Disney’s Lump of Coal

By Anthea Butler

…all of the facets that make New Orleans and Louisiana the wonderful, complex, and sometimes exasperating place that it is is a crime. Disney’s princesses, once again, may have big beautiful eyes, but while kids are enjoying the view, Disney’s hack job of deconstructing history by making it “cute” is just as destructive as a category 5 hurricane. Fun and truth do not have to be mutually exclusive to sell a movie, unless of course you’re just bankru…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…embling dancing mania.” Witnessing the Strasbourg pandemonium, and without better explanation, the German humanist Otto Brunfuls compared it to a variant of ancient Dionysian cults that would drunkenly rampage, remarking “What else is it but Korybantism … when, transported into delirium, they were led to dance in union without cease?” Anxieties of an uncertain era naturally led to mass hysteria. Alsace had been illuminated with strange portents in…

Confession Fail: iPhone App Controversy Muddies the Sacramental Waters

By Elizabeth Drescher

…would rather not talk with a priest about a tendency to engage in, say, sexual acts that were not open to the transmission of new life (a sin against the 6th commandment)—would not assume she or he had, in fact, been granted absolution by through, if not by, the app itself. The app, that is, relies on a certain level of theological understanding, liturgical compliance, and spiritual will that we might be hard-pressed to find in even a relatively…