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Eight General Seminary Professors “Resign” Without Their Knowledge

By Anthea Butler

…ssing a student’s educational details in the entire General Seminary email list. As a result of a limited response to these concerns voiced in a letter to GTS’ Board of Trustees and the Dean, the faculty members in question decided to stop working until they could meet with the board. In a letter dated September 25, 2014, the eight professors said that they would “discontinue teaching and performing all other academic and administrative obligation…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…dexed by the time-lapse close ups of violence in the cage. The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a “sport” through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness”; the “strength to stand up to evil, wickedness, and unrighteousness”; a “warrior ethos”; and, the ability to “be prepared in advance” for a “battle out there” against an “enemy” that is “trying to seek and destroy us.” While listening to suc…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…astised by her teacher for saying, “Bless you.” (“Bless you” appeared on a list of words that were considered distracting or inappropriate for use in the classroom, alongside words like “boring” and “hang out.”) According to Turner, she was told that “Godly language” would not be tolerated in school and that her Constitutional rights didn’t apply in the classroom. When another student stepped in and told the teacher she couldn’t “trump God,” Turne…

No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…aders get to the parts that talk about the music in depth, they can go and listen to it while they are reading. It is a pretty cool feature I think. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? That talking to the dead is somehow the same as seeing ghosts (and being haunted), or zombies! It is a funny thing how the moment you begin a conversation about the dead, people start making connections to ghosts and zombies. People who kno…

New Study: Three-Quarters of American Giving Goes to Religion

By Jay Michaelson

…gifts, most of us probably include religious institutions within a laundry list of good causes: Save the Whales, the American Cancer Society, and so on. In fact, three quarters of American giving—and three-quarters of the concomitant tax benefit – goes to religion. While law students still quibble over whether the Bible Club can meet in the school gym, our tax policy, school voucher programs, and “faith-based implementers” of domestic and internat…

Are Messianic Jews Unfairly Shunned by Jews?

By Sarah Posner

…th will have a deep impact on Jewish-Christian relations. The uproar over Bush is one of what I suspect will be a growing list of examples. …

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…omething about Kubota’s story leaves me unsettled. Call it my inner rationalist or my inner existentialist. Call it what you like, but I’m wary of a scientist who harbors (and who publicly exposes) such passionate feelings about something like immortality. There’s something a little madcap about a science that gets biological with its immortality. I’m a little uncomfortable about what this does to (and with) our actual world. What is biological im…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…Mexico also had zombie hackers co-opt their emergency systems. Add to that list states where aid in dying legislation has recently been introduced (New Mexico, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii) and states where it is already legal (Oregon since 1994 and Washington since 2008) and you’re likely to conclude that dead isn’t what it used to be. And you’d be right. Dead used to mean three things: you weren’t breathing, your heart wasn’t bea…

Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…we face in our relations with the mass media. What can we learn? Here’s my list of eight iron-clad certainties about how the media will cover events in which religion may play a role. Same Old Experts The media will trot out its “experts,” but none of them from the academic discipline devoted to studying religion in all its forms: religious studies. Psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and other wonky types will hold forth at lengt…

Pope Francis and the American Sisters

By Mary E. Hunt

…n the friendly but still largely cosmetic changes he has instituted. Gradualists will disagree with me, but I think it is time for Catholics to grow up and realize that royalty does not become us. The Church is a service organization whose primary stakeholders are people who are poor. Their needs, and not the whims of pampered prelates, are the priority. Nothing less is acceptable. Raise the bar for heaven’s sake. Second, on things that enthusiast…