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Fox News Needs to Get a Grip on its Affiliate’s Issues with Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…ed the Fox logo. If ridiculing minority religions and cultures isn’t official Fox News policy, if it’s just, say, an unseemly aspect of their corporate culture, Fox might want to do something about that. Maybe it’s time to get the word down the line to hundreds of other Fox News affiliates nationwide that minority-baiting is unacceptable. Because we’ve got fifteen months left until November 2012. And it already feels like it’s going to be a long c…

Interfaith Alliance Criticizes Fox News Anti-Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…News for its recent segment ridiculing Mormon beliefs. In a letter to Fox News Memphis reporter Ben Ferguson, news anchor Darrell Greene, and station manager John Koski, Gaddy expressed his concern over the way “religion” was being made an “electoral tool” in a segment that “seems simply to make a joke out of a major religion’s doctrine.” “To the benefit of absolutely no one, your segment simply perpetuated misperceptions and misunderstandings of…

Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

By Chrissy Stroop

…opponents “hate religion” and “hate God.” Since the early days of his 2016 run when Trump’s “Two Corinthians” gaffe made many mocking headlines, he’s actually learned to speak evangelical reasonably well—at least for someone with such a limited ability to express essentially coherent thoughts. As I’ve belabored before, clearly recognizing White evangelicals as his most supportive demographic, Trump did more to advance the Christian Right’s agenda…

Sikh Prof. Prabhjot Singh Was Not The ‘Victim’ of a Hate Crime

By Simran Jeet Singh

…ge—the native tongue in the Sikh homeland of Punjab—doesn’t even contain a word that equates to the concept of “victim.” Rather, most Sikhs see the spirit as enlivened by chardi kala (perpetual optimism), a notion expressed in the Sikh scripture by the fifth Guru, who writes: “No one is evil, everyone is good. There is no defeat—all is victory.” The optimistic orientation expressed in this scriptural passage, is likewise illustrated in the followi…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…, but they believe that all of it must surely add up to some single great truth. It is a worldview that flourished in the Enlightenment, in which occult science and a deep sense of mystery surrounded the rise of modern rationalism. What today might appear to be a contradiction between reason and occult mysticism was once a natural relationship, and no other movement illustrates this marriage so fully as the Masons. Ceremonial Aprons and Pseudoscie…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…e doing something right because the fallen world is not ready to hear the true word of God. Of course, we don’t really live in that theological universe anymore. For the most part, we are Jews who are fully children of the Enlightenment; we fight for justice and equality for everyone, and we don’t live in a world where we assume everyone hates us. Or do we? The tweetstorm in the wake of bedbug-gate and the new book by a public Jew on the ubiquity…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…te the most theologians, or who has access to ultimate, divinely inspired truth. The condo controversy is about empty vessels and soulless institutions. It is about admitting that the word “liberal” is a hollow placeholder, an empty signifier. The liberal position believes compromises must be made, and that the “good” people—presidents and administrators—making those compromises should be absolved of guilt because they are taking the “sacred middl…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…ts of the values and norms that guide human actions. In our modern secular world science is the arbiter of truth about the natural, material world. From a Jewish perspective, science, and especially its application in technology, can be used to solve legal problems and alleviate legal restrictions, and science and technology should be used to heal and alleviate human suffering. But science does not provide us with the values and norms necessary to…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ploaded to iTunes. Only a handful of segments on an even smaller number of news and opinion shows on mainstream media from the historical network channels to the cable news networks actually call on the academy for trained theologians to offer their view on the social issues of the day. This is, in many ways, a slap in the face to academic theology—those same networks would never call on a law school drop out to comment on the legal ramifications…

Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?

By Robin Globus Veldman

…ssessed whether respondents believed the Bible “should be taken literally, word for word.” Consequently, the study did not assess how much of the indifference to taking action on climate change might derive from a host of other beliefs. Perhaps most important to consider is whether suspicion of scientists and scientific research may be spilling over from the creation-evolution debate (as Katharine Wilkinson found in her qualitative study of the ev…