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Will The Bible Miniseries Correct Biblical Illiteracy?

By Sarah Posner

Last week, after watching the latest episode of The Bible miniseries on the History Channel, bible scholar Wil Gafney wrote on her blog: The bible is a wonderfully rich, complicated, challenging, illuminating, revelatory text. It is also horrifically violent and does not say what we want the way we want it to. We must take it in its entirety seriously as a cultural and historical artifact and as scripture – if that is our confession. But this ser…

Shifting Talk on Mormon Racism Reveals Divisions within LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…ically specific account of the LDS ban on black ordination worked into the latest edition of LDS scriptures by the Church’s professional historians. Gone too was the implicit acknowledgment that the racist ban may have been the product of human error rather than divine will. Sources report behind-the-scenes efforts to have the talk edited before its publication in the Ensign, the official LDS Church magazine, in its semi-annual Conference edition….

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…s: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah. In Schmidt’s latest contribution to this field, American Religious Liberalism, co-edited with religious historian Sally Promey, he misrepresents my trilogy on American liberal theology, so first a word about that. Schmidt says that “religious liberalism” should be defined more broadly than I do in The Making of American Liberal Theology. But I stressed in all three volumes that my subje…

Does God know if I cheat on a test in São Paulo?

By Michael Schulson

There are at least two ways to summarize the latest study out of the Canadian Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture. The nice way is rather technical. To quote the author, Benjamin Purzycki: “The present work is the first study to systematically compare the minds of gods by examining some of the intuitive processes that guide how people reason about them.” Another way to summarize it is this: our gods are more moral than your gods. O…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…he day, but the politics were just getting started. While checking out the latest update from Stand With Texas Women on Facebook, I heard Texas Sen. Donna Campbell on the local news declare that “Democracy was traded for mobocracy” during the successful filibuster. Mobocracy, really? Needless to say, the proverbial line was drawn in the sand, yet again. The orange-clad were directed to arrive at the Capitol the following day, July 2, ready to regi…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…tacking). These reflections came to mind when I picked up Lauren Sandler’s latest, One and Only: the Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One, released this month by Simon & Schuster. Why, Sandler asks, are prejudices about “selfish” and “maladjusted” single kids (and their parents) so widespread in our culture, despite much evidence to the contrary? Part of the answer has to do with myths about the happiness of singletons and the…

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists

By Beatrice Marovich

…s job at this moment in human history. As a lapsed Dutch Catholic, de Waal promotes what boils down to a version of secular humanism, suggesting that this should be a viable trade-off that could help human societies ease religion out of the body politic without ripping it out like the virgin’s beating heart. Secular humanism has, of course, also been accused of advancing forms of human exceptionalism by thinkers working with an eco-critical lens,…

Waging Patience, Not Violence

By Asma Afsaruddin

…stimes to browse the bookstores in airports in particular to check out the latest screed that had been published on the topic. All of this stoked a desire in me to write a book-length monograph soberly exploring the many dimensions of jihad as evident in different genres of Arabic language primary sources and to anchor these understandings in specific historical circumstances. Finally, after winning a couple of grants, I was able to go on two sa…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…nt in Canada who keeps a diary against veiling. And the site’s Art section promotes controversial photo galleries on beauty and veiling, cultural and gender identities in Islam, and the use of humor in the Syrian war frontlines, among other things. As a critical space, Free Arab should be commended for promoting individual rights and civil liberties in the Arab context. The site’s work is also significant because it tries to locate secularism as a…

Right-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nce again, on the wrong side of history. With their defeat imminent, their latest attempt to beat back the gay advance is a ham-fisted and ridiculous video produced by anti-gay group Faith2Action that mocks the very coming out process that is such a point of anguish and pain for so many gay and lesbian people. Instead of recognizing the heart-wrenching act of revealing one’s true self to those we love—and facing their possible rejection—the video…