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The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…s and temporal obedience,” Butler looks at how belief shaped these women’s understanding of self, community, and God, enabling them to “negotiate for and obtain power” in ways that defied expectations for women of their race and station. Butler writes concisely and accessibly, telling stories of women you will be glad to have met. * * * My USC colleague Josh Kun is co-author with Roger Bennett of the best bar/bat mitzva gift, Hanukkah present and,…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…, “This is the Religion Ambassador?” The Washington Post is carefully tiptoeing around the question of Rev. Cook’s appointment, quoting the first Ambassador-at-Large, Thomas Farr, who called Cook an outstanding pastor, but also lamented her lack of experience. Yet her friend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lauded her as “an experienced religious leader with a passion for human rights and an impressive record of public service.” Coming from th…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…Some of them have no age set, and this is a huge problem. Some cases are being contested for families marrying off their daughters before they even hit their teens, or just barely into it. We have multiple strategies to employ on keeping some kind of age limit, but it happens. Using 7th- or 8th-century logic or precedent is not acceptable for our work. The interest of the girl is. There is such a thing as too young, and we know this today because…

Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…pace of the White House’s responses to the report. The White House action comes one day before a hearing scheduled by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee on constitutional issues related to the OFBNP. According to the White House press release, the Executive Order: Requires the government to protect beneficiaries of federally funded social service programs by providing referrals…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…add that the Pope’s worry that digital communication is marked by “the tendency to communicate only some parts of one’s interior world, the risk of constructing a false image of oneself” also betrays a certain unfamiliarity with communication practices in daily life generally, digital or otherwise. When are we not communicating “only some parts of [our] interior world” (that with a big dollop of latitude on the notion of “interiority” itself)? Wh…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…own research appears to undermine the argument. Not Enough Social to Go Around The relationships among the undergraduates in Beck’s research were not formed on Facebook, they were enriched by students’ continued digital contact. The problem with regard to churches and other religious communities (and we see this over and over again with Facebook group pages whose only visitors are the minister and the technophile parishioner who championed the chu…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…past to better understand the present. Long before the religious controversies surrounding JFK, Joe Lieberman, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and Sarah Palin, Americans wrestled with the issue of high-office candidates being connected to beliefs or believers outside the mainstream. Back in 1902, Reed Smoot, an apostle of the LDS Church, was elected to the US Senate. The Senate refused to seat him for four years while it conducted hearings and investi…

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

By Jessica Weisberg

…ining camp for atheists. For some critics, the school’s atheist links only compounded its elitism. Academic institutions are well-known bastions of the wealthy, white, non-believing, and smugly rational. Grayling’s school almost looks like a parody. Grayling, whose long, gray hair looks almost like a barrister’s wig, is defensive about the economics of his new education venture. In interviews and editorials, he points to the fact that government c…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…oking for some clerical training? A couple of reitirees in Oklahoma run an online Bible college, the Apostolic Faith Online Bible Institute. A study finds that more education does not drive you away from religion, but instead liberalizes your religious beliefs. Israel’s basketball league is attracting Jewish American players skipped over by the NBA. Florida Marlins baseball manager Jack McKeon prays to St. Thérèse during the national anthem before…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…t University law school, or her exposé on the approach currently taught students at Liberty’s law school. On a recent exam, for example, students were asked about a case — one which Liberty Counsel lawyers were currently involved in — regarding a woman had renounced her homosexuality and was refusing to honor the court-ordered custody arrangement for a child she’d had with a former partner. The exam asked whether students, as Christian lawyers, wo…