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Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Eliot Raynor

…ose people initially knew me as the author of a book – but luckily they go way, way beyond that. On Human Connection: A Letter to Alexander Jenner This is a blow-up of a record cover from 1950 of Chopin’s Etudes, Opus 25. Alexander Jenner recorded this when he was twenty. In a certain sense, this is the most important record of my entire life, this first classical record that I ever heard. It happened, and just changed my entire life. Completely….

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…re finding that this period of quiet has energized their practice with new ways to worship. Jill Smith, a Modern Orthodox Jew from Cambridge, Massachusetts, attended a Zoom baby-naming service and joined in a virtual Birkat Hagomel, a thanksgiving prayer for surviving trauma, with a friend who recovered from COVID-19. Rosie O’Brien Richards, who worships at the Redeemer Church of Montclair, New Jersey, has found that her ten-year-old daughter, who…

Bloody Religious Conflict on the Way Out?

By Ira Chernus

…t to explain it. Industrial societies need to coordinate the labor of huge numbers of people. They can’t afford to have religious differences played out in the public sphere because that would gum up the works. For the sake of economic efficiency, they have to define religion as a private affair. In your free time, you can be religious (or not) in any way you like, they say in effect. But when you enter the public sphere, you must leave religious…

The Woody Allen Problem: How Do We Read Pacifist Theologian (and Sexual Abuser) John Howard Yoder?

By Stephanie Krehbiel

…If a case hasn’t come to a satisfactory conclusion, talking about it can always be labelled this way. People who spread gossip are supposed to be venal and petty. It’s a cultural idea with extraordinary power, particularly in religious contexts, although it’s deployed selectively in popular media as well. In The Daily Beast, Robert Weide writes, “I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.” This was in th…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ve had the most success in terms of the existing religious conversation. A number of conservative Christians have had to move away from making that any significant part of the foundation of their argument because it’s clear the matter there was gang rape when we’re talking about loving, committed relationships. The basic argument is sound. Where we struggle the most in the gay Christian conversation however, is in Paul in Romans 1. It took me awhi…

One Nation, Many Bibles: Obama vs. Dobson

By Anthony B. Pinn

…is always read in light of the reader’s historical and cultural context—always has been and always will be. That is to say, we bring our concerns and ourselves to the Bible. This is not a problem unless it goes unacknowledged, hidden behind a thin veil of religious self-righteousness and arrogance. And regarding this, evangelicals don’t have a direct line to the world of the Bible and the intent of the scripture message; but neither do those who…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…mpare him to the Nazis, isn’t that a tacit admission that there is a right way and a wrong way to treat people, including Australian ethicist/Princeton professors who feel that their benign intentions are being misrepresented? And what if the New Atheist agenda succeeded beyond Dawkins and his followers’ wildest dreams? Would everything work out perfectly? For instance, what would happen to the environmentalist movement? The appeal of the environm…

How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…she explained. “So it kind of encourages people to frame arguments in that way—so therefore baking a cake becomes a religious act.” By the same token, the growing number of self-proclaimed Christians who insist that their faith requires them to reject and resist marriage equality, (or, say, the legitimacy of transgender identities,) are performing a kind of public proclamation of faith. Proclaiming these convictions—which are by no means universal…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…nations which form part of this church. These liturgies also create a pathway for the people in such relationships to become ordained. Civil marriages between a man and a woman have long been recognised in law in both New Zealand and in those Pacific Island nations. In New Zealand’s case, of course, an amendment to marriage law came into effect in August 2013 – which allows same-sex couples to legally marry. The Way Forward Working Group (WFWG) r…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…to isolated communities to try to preserve and recreate their traditional way of life. Some are revolutionary and try to overthrow their oppressors. Scholars have reported on many nativist millennial movements among populations whose way of life has been disrupted by colonialists. Such movements include the Pai Marire movement among the Maori in New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s, and the “Ghost Dance” movement among Native Americans in the Weste…