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Philadelphia Man Blames Bible for Stoning Death

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ent once and for all is a terribly naïve way to read a very complicated text. Instead, one must be trained to actually read the Bible in a responsible manner – preferably, as Hauerwas states, within a community dedicated to taking the Bible seriously. As Jennifer Wright Knust writes in her latest book, Unprotected Texts, “The only way the Bible can be regarded as straightforward and simple is if no one bothers to read it. The Bible was not a colle…

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…al of Serbians from the province’s public institutions. The dispute is the latest in a series of escalations in the region which, though eerily reminiscent of the 1990s, have been widely overshadowed in the Western media by the war in Ukraine. Yet this is an oversight that could have dire consequences in the near future, as a second war, not entirely unrelated to the current war, threatens to break out in the heart of Europe. The lack of sufficien…

“Ex-Gay” Common Ground More of a Killing Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

On the surface, Dan Gilgoff is right in his latest US News column to tout famous “ex-gay” Alan Chambers’ new interview with Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink as “striking.” But, when studied, the interview is simply more of the same from the “ex-gay” camp. What striking is that Chambers is not promoting so-called conversion therapy, which some religious conservatives claim can convert gays and lesbians to a straight sexual orientation. Rather, he…

No More Mosques

By Daniel Schultz

…lash out and hurt somebody: Normally I would think we could ride out this latest wave of nativism and racism, but there are two factors that make it more dangerous than usual. The first, of course, is the economy which looks like it’s not going to recover smartly thus giving this impulse more oxygen than it might otherwise have. The second is that the right wing demagogues have an entire industry now devoted to creating and nurturing these wedge…

Dawkins and Hitchens Hope to Arrest the Pope

By Evan Derkacz

…ceedingly difficult to say anything but ‘amen’ to the new atheists in this latest quest. On the other hand this move could backfire and spark ire among Catholics causing them to circle the wagons and dull their own criticism. It’s a fine line. The problem was caused by the inability for the Church to police itself adequately. While it’s preposterous to believe that any institution—whether it be the US financial services industry or the Catholic Ch…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…tes were “importing” poor Jewish migrants to Christian Britain. The Jewish-coded monster who plots to colonize Britain with a demonic undead species now lurks, barely disguised, beneath a host of right-wing nightmares: the Right’s depictions of an omnipotent George Soros; QAnon’s talk of blood-drinking Democrats; and Herschel Walker’s recent bizarre reflections on the 1985 movie Fright Night—a rant that culminated in his comparing opponent Raphael…

Are the Culture Wars Over? Look at the States

By Sarah Posner

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, in the latest Democracy: In 1943, Allied forces achieved a hard-fought victory in the North African campaign, captured Sicily, and began to fight their way up the Italian peninsula. Victories in places such as El-Alamein, Salerno, and Anzio gave America some confidence that the Allies would ultimately prevail in Europe. That confidence allowed the American public to shift more of its attention to the Pacific Th…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…ific concern. Camping has been buried by subsequent news cycles and is the latest member of a cadre of religious leaders whom the Apocalypse passed by. But while May’s Apocalypse seems to have skipped over most of the world, it did land squarely on a hilltop in north-western Vietnam. It would behoove us to take notice of the complex and unexpected ways in which this spring’s apocalypticism rippled across the world—in short radio waves, to be preci…

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”

By Ed Simon

…roying priceless artefacts that are thousands of years old, in the group’s latest rampage…” As is the case in the Guardian‘s coverage, the story is often accompanied by Islamic State video showing black-clad, bearded extremists taking power tools to ancient Assyrian and Akkadian statues. We watch in horror as ancient statues of massive winged bulls have their faces erased by jack-hammers and we see statues being toppled over. According to the Guar…

Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…ampaign on Facebook. This small gesture in support of gay marriage was the latest in an ongoing evolution of my thought. Like a handful of others, I’ve only recently “come out of the closet” as a straight, married, (quasi-)evangelical Christian who supports the right of every person to marry the person they love. Not surprisingly, my small gesture sparked a bit of online controversy. Because my Facebook friends mirror the various chapters of my l…