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A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…They are all destined for the United States, where Pi’s father intends to sell the animals so that the family can make a new life for itself in America. But the ocean liner shipwrecks, and Pi is left to float in the cold, tumultuous water with the few creatures who have also survived the wreck. The feisty hyena kills the lone zebra and the orangutan. And so Pi eventually finds himself alone with Richard Parker: the massive Bengal tiger. The kinsh…

Ex-Gay Org Loses Tax-Exempt Status

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ts are clear indications that the tide is turning against those who try to sell the lie that gay and lesbian people can simply “pray away the gay” or get enough “reparative” therapy to change their sexual orientation. If all this isn’t proof enough, Peter Montgomery has already pointed to a new poll here on RD, conducted by conservative Christian pollster Lifeway for the Southern Baptist Convention, that shows 64% say it’s “inevitable” that marria…

In the Lewinsky Redux, a Religious Message

By Sarah Posner

…with the Christian right’s business as usual, which many of them saw as a sell-out to party politics and an abandonment of true biblical values. Their extreme anti-government views often get them mislabeled as libertarians—but biblical authoritarianism is their guide. The elder Paul built this movement with former Bush evangelical outreach architect Doug Wead, who also claimed disenchantment with the very political apparatus he played such a cruc…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…a month. We found that if people who come to speak happen to have books to sell, we don’t find it’s appropriate for them to market their books in this venue. We’re trying to weed out the person who wants to just get in and bang the drum. Also, if you look at our accreditation process, it’s a bit like a trade association. Let’s say if someone starts getting a bit Islamophobic, we can tell them they have the freedom to say what they want but we won’…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…nfusions. It’s also, for those who are keeping count, a New York Times bestseller. More plausible than the arguments of 6,000-year-old-earthers, and much slicker than the earlier, bumbling efforts of intelligent design-ers, creationism 3.0 has arrived. Two things about Darwin’s Doubt are misleading from the start. The first is the book’s billing as a study of the Cambrian explosion (which, for those who dozed off in paleontology class, is a perio…

Affordable Care Act Needs “Fix,” Clergy Say

By Daniel Schultz

Ed Kilgore has a good catch at his blog today: it seems that a number of churches have been asking for a fix to the Affordable Care Act. So far, they’ve been getting a receptive hearing from Democrats on Capitol Hill—but not Republicans. Here’s the nub of the problem they’re trying to solve: Without the requested “fix,” as many as one million clergy members and church employees now enrolled in church-sponsored health plans could soon face the cho…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…mple, King Henry III taxed Jewish moneylenders so heavily that they had to sell their debts at steep discounts—to members of the royal court, who pocketed the profits. Such situations were damaging to Jewish moneylenders and Christian debtors; nevertheless the Jews would be labeled as “bloodsuckers” and the king as a “Jew-lover.” In this manner, “Jewishness” became a way for Christians to both solidify and criticize worldly power. Some of the stro…

Hipsters vs. Hasids, Round: Yawn

By Evan Derkacz

…s so that they can withstand this difficult test and so that they will not sell for the lure of money. Please, our Father God of Mercy, have mercy upon our generation that is weak, and remove this difficult test from these people, these immoral antagonists that by their doing will multiply, God forbid, the excruciating tests and the sight of the impurity and immorality that is growing in the world. And here we live in fear that owing to the encr…

The “Prophetic” Voice of Jim Wallis Jumps on Marriage Equality Bandwagon

By Sarah Posner

…ing year, Wallis took a sabbatical, and now he’s back—with another book to sell, On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good. In an interview with the Huffington Post’s Jaweed Kaleem last week, Wallis described what motivated him to write yet another book about How Everything Would Be Divine If Everyone Listened To Jim Wallis. (Especially you, ladies!) “The vitriol. The screaming. The polarization…

Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century

By Michael Schulson

…e taught, ‘Do not board cattle in the barns of gentiles,’ yet every day we sell cattle to gentiles and make partnerships with them and are alone with them and entrust our infants to their households for nursing and teach Torah to gentiles, for see, there are [Christian] clerics who know how to read a Jewish book.” Donin’s charges, though, focus entirely on the text, and Yehiel’s arguments must return again and again to the particularities of Talmu…