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Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Mississippi and Louisiana coast, packing 125 mph winds and strong waves and producing a storm surge of 10-20 feet. The winds and flooding left New Orleans without power and submerged in as much as 20 feet of water in some areas. The treacherous physical and social circumstances faced by the 10-20 percent of largely black New Orleanians that were unable to evacuate the city visited horror and dea…

A Secret History of Satan

By W. Scott Poole

…t Poole on Satan in America: The Devil We Know What inspired you to write Satan in America? What sparked your interest? I’ve joked that I wouldn’t have had to write a book about Satan if my parents had let me go see Ozzy back in 1985. I’m not sure I’m entirely kidding since I grew up in the 1980s when, as I describe in the book, the culture was seized with what scholars call “the satanic panic.” Evangelicals’ insistence that dark powers are at wor…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…s author: HOW I SURVIVED IT HOW WE CAN END IT That survivor, of course, is Aayan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who fled to Holland, before landing in the United States. Her husband is the British historian Niall Ferguson (an Oxford-Harvard professor of empire). There are many differences between the two articles and between the two authors. Ghosh is a professional journalist with a commitment to neutral reportage, while Ali is a professiona…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…white space. Short sentences that force you to stop. And think. And start again. What would Rob Bell do to fill up eight hours in person? The message of the book is simple: look around at your life, decide if it’s what you want, then devote all your energy to living the best life you can. Don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do. Just do it. Even if that thing is being an assistant regional manager of an insurance company—he actual…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…t studying religion. Early on, he made his reputation with works on Kierkegaard and Hegel, and during the 1980s he helped to bring the ideas of Jacques Derrida into American theology and religious studies. Starting in the late 90s, though, Taylor ventured far afield with books on architecture, computer networks, economic markets, and even Las Vegas. In 2006, he released a book of photographs of animal skeletons in the desert. Taylor’s most recent…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…rest? Back in January of 2007, a colleague gave me a photocopied page from a book and asked me to evaluate it as if it were a student paper. The page contained a summary and cursory criticism of the first three of Aquinas’ “Five Ways” (arguments for proving the existence of a transcendent being). As I looked it over, I noticed that the author got Aquinas’ arguments wrong… and then criticized them at precisely those points where he got them wrong….

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…also left institutional Christianity because my faith in God had changed dramatically. I no longer believed what I had once believed. I also told people that I lost faith in God, but I realized that isn’t exactly right either. I didn’t lose my faith. I left it. Writing this book I had to face deep parts of myself that were hard for me to look at, hard for me to admit. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That there is more to G…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…t to Makkah you should go straight to Masjid al-Haram, entering gate al-Salaam. There I will perform the tawaf, circumambulate the ka’abah seven times, starting at the corner with the black stone. Then I will perform sa’iy, walking and running seven times between Safa and Marwa. I only know that I arrive in Jeddah at 9:30 p.m. No other real information from that recalcitrant tour company about how long we will be at this transition point before mo…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…share the same journey. The biblical call to repentance is a call to make a 180 degree turn. It grieves us that many in The Episcopal Church have again rejected this call. While we desire to walk together, until there is true repentance, the reality is that they are deliberately walking away from the Anglican Communion and the authority of Scripture at a distance that continues to increase. The recent meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

On the cover of Today’s Zaman, a Bosniak woman is crying over one coffin among dozens. The paper identifies them as the remains of 613 recently identified victims of the Srebrenican genocide, found in the many places Serb forces tried so hard to hide them, ripped apart in some cases by the bulldozers used to bury them. That’s the English-language edition of Turkey’s top-selling newspaper; the story is big news in Turkish, too. It means something…