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Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…ther religious faiths, too.” (Like the Prime Minister using his office to promote his Christian faith.) But then Cameron reveals his politician’s circumspection, arguing on the one hand that advocates of “secular neutrality fail to grasp the consequences of that neutrality, or the role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary n…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…from Wikipedia). New Testament scholars have noted that since The DaVinci Code became a cultural phenomenon, there’s been a surge of conspiratorial claims about Jesus, the early church, and the influence of Pagan mystery religions. Authors such as Craig Evans and Bart Ehrman have written with bewilderment at the revival of “mythicist” theories of Jesus and “nineteenth-century philosophical hokum” that was long ago dismissed by serious scholars wh…

Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

…es. And for anyone who thinks that it’s a big breakthrough for the pope to promote “responsible parenthood,” here’s Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae: Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same time should be rightly understood. Thus, we do well to consider responsible parenthood in the l…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ys Sunil Khilnani in The Idea of India “recoiled from the vision of nationalist Hindus… He rejected the idea that past history was the source for defining future possibilities or orienting present action… ‘I believe,’ he wrote, ‘that a nation is happy that has no history.’” Gandhi’s Hindu nationalist assassin and his supporters were not going to “forget history.” They would kill him for betraying their “Hindu ideal.” Buber too was against religiou…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…eal of trust exists between us. Just as we do not plagiarize, we honor the code of privacy and do not make public that which was meant to remain private. For me, that trust was broken in the midst of this passionate debate in a way that tells me we have crossed a line. Writing a Facebook wall comment in response to a May 3rd debate between Gordis and Peter Beinart at Columbia University, I referred to Rabbi Gordis as a “tribal fascist.” The tribal…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…in on the panel’s agitprop. When none other than the former director of intelligence worries aloud about the “creeping erosion of our rights,” the CPAC audience sits up and listens. And they were also listening to someone who thinks that a far-right nationalist in Europe is someone to admire….

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…rts which, Gaffney maintains, is happening as we speak. Khan and other panelists were confronted by followers of Gaffney, equipped with video cameras, about their supposed ties to jihadists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other assorted bogeymen. Here, at Faith and Freedom, Breger and Gaffney were on the same panel, described in the program as “Defeating Terrorism and Jihad,” but which was much more about the supposed threat of shari’ah than terroris…

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

By Eric Reitan

…e following: the Inventor of the laws of physics and Programmer of the DNA code decided to enter the uterus of a Jewish virgin, got himself born, then deliberately had himself tortured and executed because he couldn’t think of a better way to forgive the theft of an apple, committed at the instigation of a talking snake. Since I live in Oklahoma (the purported Buckle of the Bible Belt), one might expect that Dawkins was envisioning a neighborhood…

Racial Justice and Queer Masculinity: The Gospel of Frank Ocean

By Josiah Daniels

…contexts?” In times like these, who can say anything about Good News? As I listen to Blonde, these questions bubble to the surface with every introspective verse, each ambient guitar riff, and the dark, mysterious longings for intimacy (With people? With God? Uhh, with himself?). Searching for Good News in Ocean’s album is a bit like trying to hear and see the good in the world right now—the darkness leaves you deaf and blind. “It is evident the p…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uko, the heterosexual executive director of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, was part of the case that Sexual Minorities Uganda and the Center for Constitutional Rights have brought against American anti-gay activist Scott Lively, JJuuko sais it could put an end to “evangleicals coming here and importing homophobia,” adding, “You can’t promote hate in other countries. You can’t export hate.” Jjuuko is optimistic about the long-term…