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Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

…because nothing like that took place in American history. Still, the Daily News’ Jaime Uribarri drags Smith through the mud by recounting the cruelty of online critics: “You’re a f——— idiot” was one of the the more blunt responses to the head-scratcher of a post, while others, like Twitter user @j_weech1, tried enlightening Smith about the true meaning of the term. “It’s called Black Friday because businesses get into the black (profit) for the ye…

No-News News From Focus on the Family

By Daniel Schultz

…means he knows the battle is probably sunk for now, so he’ll have to try a new avenue. One other thing worth mentioning: there really is a generational difference between “old guard” leaders like Dobson, or Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, and newer folks like Daly. The older generation of leaders came up in a time when being an evangelical was not as well accepted in mainstream society as it is today. They felt like they had to fight to get their…

In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?

By Ivan Strenski

Recently, the New York Times’ religion writer appeared to throw up his hands in despair at trying to fix on a definition of religion—since the word seemed to cover everything from Pope Francis’ latest encyclical to CrossFit. As Mark Oppenheimer exasperatedly wrote, “If everything is religion then maybe nothing is.” As noted here in RD, Oppenheimer’s article drew a sharp and immediate retort from historian of religion, Damon Linker, who set out to…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…ng cultural narrative. In fact, the “rise of the nones” story is obscuring news of a different, equally fascinating trend in the world of religion. While small in total number, the fastest growing religious population in North America today (after Islam) is NOT the “nones” It’s “other religion,” a category that includes anything from Baha’i and Taosim to Wicca and Zoroastrianism. Part of the growth in “other religion” segment is being fueled by re…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…though the Vatican decided to play it cool and say the movie is okay, the New York Times’ novice conservative pundit Ross Douthat took it as an occasion to rail against theological liberalism. And now I’m going to treat it as a barometer for the peculiar state of religion-and-science these days. Here’s what happens (plot spoiler alert). In the basement of CERN, a secret laboratory run by a brilliant “theo-physicist” (as he calls himself in the bo…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…ook The Total Money Makeover, in various editions now, is a fixture on the New York Times bestseller list; and personal financial blogs frequently discuss the relative merits of his seven-step “debt snowball” plan to get out and stay out of debt and thus gradually become wealthy. Putting the whole package together, Ramsey should be understood as far more influential than better known financial gurus like Suze Orman, while the friendly tone of his…

Close Encounters

By Amina Wadud

…is the response we make to some things, some places, some persons or some times, that set those things, places, persons or times apart. We are the viewer and what we witness confirms that there is more to life than just what meets the eye or affects the sense, and we are awe-struck in this confirmation. Spiritual literature is mostly full of descriptions of this awesome encounter, which, again, can be anywhere and at any time. What matters is us:…

Un-Kosher Processing Plant

By Diane Winston

It’s not exactly new news—but the New York Times has an eye-popping update on abusive labor practices at a Postville, Iowa meatpacking plant. In case you missed it—in May, federal immigration officials raided the nation’s largest kosher plant, Agriprocessors, Inc. in Postville, which had employed almost 400 illegal immigrants, almost two dozen of whom were also under-age. The Times‘ Sunday story offers recently uncovered details about…

Cronus, Chronos, and Christ

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t continually. There is no belief in progress in Ovid’s topsy-turvy poetic world, the world of continuous-change-in-time. Saturn reigned at the very beginning of all these changes, and thus he was fast becoming the god for whom the word-play between Cronus (Saturn) and Chronos (Time) began to make sense, in a Latin world that did not speak much Greek. This is all important poetic evidence of what Saturn was becoming in the Roman mind after the con…

Red White and Blue No Longer

By Peter Laarman

…ing here and a virtual end to the in-migration of whites from abroad. The New York Times reported this in Column One noting only that, in respect to potential future conflict, at some point active workers of color will at some point support, via their payroll taxes, Social Security payments that are made primarily to white retirees. This observation implies that younger people of color might take counsel among themselves and decide that it’s not…