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Talmud v. Torture: The Jewish Case Against “Enhanced Interrogation”

By Benjamin Weiner

…iple known as kavod ha-briot (“human dignity”), contrasting notions like tselem elohim (“creation in the image of God”) and hamalbin pnei heviro b’rabim (“whoever shames his fellow in public has spilled his blood”) with the depredations of Abu Ghraib. Jewish law does clearly place preeminent value on the preservation of life, and articulates circumstances in which a rodef (a “pursuer”) may be harmed or killed to prevent his murder of another. But…

Final (Probably) Thoughts On The Aqua Buddha Ad

By Sarah Posner

…oach has been, especially since about 2006 or so, to try to make themselves out to be the “authentic” Christians who truly care about their neighbors and all that. The Aqua Buddha ad may have been a bad strategic move in Kentucky; we’ll never really know. But Conway — without, as far as I can tell, invoking treacly religion — takes positions on economic issues that would, if enacted, actually help his constituents. Rand Paul does not. But Democrat…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…think tank in Washington, DC (full disclosure: I am currently a Visiting Fellow in Religion at Third Way.) He was joined by a panel of leaders representing this emerging center: Dr. Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action and the Evangelical Environmental Network; Rich Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals and leader of the Creation Care movement; and Sam Rodriguez, founder of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Co…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…of. But these dreams are important—they make up for a lot.” The idea of “religion as feeling” resonates in this context. Even with 90 minutes counting down on the referee’s watch, “a sense and taste for the infinite” impresses itself. The game feels deeply personal that way. You dream of possibility, enwrapped in the process. Each minute an opportunity for equalization, victory or loss; yet each minute fleeting all the same. Seeing the human body…

GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…here. But it seems today’s disciples are not furthering the Lincoln-Roosevelt gospel. With federal tax dollars, Lincoln expanded western settlement, subsidized agricultural colleges, and sponsored the country’s first trans-continental railroad, the cutting-edge infrastructure of the day. He imposed tariffs and established the federal income tax. He set up a national currency, the Department of Agriculture, a system of national banks, and reviewed…

Racial Justice and Queer Masculinity: The Gospel of Frank Ocean

By Josiah Daniels

…ally laments, “Bloodshed follows bloodshed.” Ocean, like Hosea, puts his feelings of hopelessness in verse, “That’s the way everyday goes/Every time we have no control.” Barbarity and chaos cause God to cry out, My heart is turned within me, My compassion grows like a flame. God’s burning compassion is on display in the Exodus story as the slaves cry out. It looks nothing like a directed prayer, but their groaning compels God to protest their pain…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…tituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and Fundacao Getulio Vargas. Televangelists and religious leaders vocal about their opposition to gay-rights legislation are also commanding some political influence, with ties to politicians who filled more than 60 Congressional seats in 2012, according to a report in Americas Quarterly. [Researcher Sonia] Correa notes that people belonging to right-wing groups have made troubling comments commending t…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…hates me teaches me caution. The one who is indifferent to me teaches me self-reliance. Three people are my friends. Hospitality is the gracious acknowledgment of the sacredness of another person’s humanity. The persons to whom we offer hospitality are “messengers,” and even “friends,” with lessons to teach us, if we are humble enough to listen and learn. “Death and Life” So yes, “just words.” Womanist scholars Rosemarie Harding and Rachel Hardin…

Romney not Precisely Familiar with Questioning Obama’s Faith, but Stands By It

By Sarah Posner

…y shares the religion that Romney claims the nation was founded upon, is the one who is undermining the proclaimed official national religion by promoting religious pluralism….

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. The klansmen had expected to find Michael Schwerner, a field worker for the Congress of Racial Equality. Schwerner and two of his CORE colleagues—James Earle Chaney and Andrew Goodman—were actually in Ohio at the time, but heard of the Mt. Zion burning and came back to Mississippi to investigate. They were pulled over, arrested, released, tailed, and finally ambushed and murdered by klansmen. You can read the w…