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Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer

By Christine Wicker

…ght now And if we see people in those terms, we’re going to be speaking in ways that seek to persuade and not just in ways that seek to score points and to vaporize our opponents. But he’s a long way from declaring universal brotherhood. When I referred in passing to his stated wish for evangelicals to remember that their opponents were brothers and sisters in Christ Moore corrected me firmly: “…potential brothers and sisters in Christ.” He freque…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…of eating tomatoes with olive oil has now been understood by science as a way to ease digestion of the lycopene-rich tomato because it is oil-soluble, as Pollan learned, cultures, too, come subtly and tightly interwoven in ways that “rationalism” continues to miss. “To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history,” he writes. But while Pollan wants us to eat more ethnically, learn our culinary history and…

Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises

By Eric C. Miller

…e you, and vice versa. Based on your experience in the South, do you see a way out of this? Is there a way that people from different political persuasions can better communicate with each other? Yes, I think there is actually a movement started by Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn.org, called “Living Room Conversations,” in which left and right get together, break bread, have respectful conversations, and then see if there are some things they ca…

How A Cat Saved My Life

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…myself so long ago. Mr. Mohler, that cat by the side of the road had no theological agenda, no venerated holy book—it merely persisted in remaining with me until I was out of harm’s way. That’s the only way any of us should treat someone in pain—not with preaching, or “truth,” but pure, unconditional, persistent, love….

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…s understanding, compromise, and shared humanity. These cozy themes have always worked their way into my writing, despite any pretense at restraint. Reading Roose made me wonder, Why not embrace it? Time to put aside the earlier, battle-stations posture of the Bush years and welcome the new, harmonious era of Obama. The news has stopped me in my tracks. Despite all the fanfare for a new liberal—pardon me, “progressive”—religious movement, the old-…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…s. CK: If an evangelical Christian is watching the film, I hope they come away from it shocked at the way that their data has been harvested and that they have been targeted, even if they agree with what the targeting was trying to do. We’re anything but anti-Christian. KGV: I grew up evangelical myself, and I’ve been very happy to hear from the Christian communities that have seen the film; from Christians who have been shocked at the level of ex…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…ging, Yale theologian Willie James Jennings brings needed attention to the ways in which the White Way of Thinking perpetuates itself in academic settings where what’s called “rigor” is really an unexamined allegiance to a certain ideal of white masculinist self-sufficiency. Jennings gives eloquent voice to his own anger and to the melancholy that he and other nonwhite scholars often feel on account of this seemingly ineradicable mass of whiteness…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…in post-1989 Eastern Europe, where they expressed dissatisfaction with the way that communism had ended, and with the way that a new liberal democratic order had arisen, which many of them understood as anti-national and global in scope. In recent years, I’ve really been struck by how these issues have become a continent-wide and even an American concern. You suggest that much of this is traceable to the “Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” in twentieth cen…

Papal Profanity: The Vatican’s Pagan Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Crete where I excavated for five years. I want to use Cretan history as a way to illustrate a very different way of conceptualizing identity, a more cosmopolitan way, than the one promoted by multiculturalism. Odysseus’s favorite lie in the Odyssey asserts that he is a Cretan pirate. The longest description of the island comes during his luminous nighttime conversation with his wife, when he is still in disguise. He describes Crete as a very stra…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…the entire place is constructed for you to have a specific experience, the way you sit, the way you face each other, the way you talk about going inside to ‘greet the light.’” I mean it’s all a fully sensual thing. Just because you’re not looking at a picture of Jesus doesn’t mean you don’t need your body. Even deciding not to have incense is a sensual decision. I was happy to see you working against the search for origins, for authentic beginning…