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Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…if they wanted to commit. My first thought would always be, “Why don’t you come to church, pray, read your Bible? Just test it out and see if this adds any meaning to your life.” So in the same way, I’m asking: what would the world be like if there wasn’t any God? The only way to find that out is to just go there. What authors have influenced you? Merold Westphal, a theist and a professor at Fordham University, wrote a book titled Overcoming Onto-…

McCullen v. Coakley and the Meaning of Protests

By Sarah Posner

…a Planned Parenthood clinic as a “sidewalk counselor,” not a boisterous protester. She only offers “compassion” and “care,” her lawyers argue, and the law, which requires her to stand beyond the perimter of a 35-foot circle outside the clinic, compels her, in order for her “compassion” to be heard, to become something she is not: a shouter. A “protester.” It’s framed as a free speech case, but at its core McCullen is about religion, and, more prec…

New Creationist Museum Undermines… Religion

By Joseph Laycock

…about what constitutes a scientific worldview. Karen Armstrong has framed Fundamentalism as a confounding of mythos–a way of knowing that deals with meaning and the experience of being human–with logos–a pragmatic and empirical way of knowing. By pitting Genesis against scientific theories, Creationists have tacitly conceded to materialist claims that scripture is only of value if it is true in a historic and scientific sense. By claiming Creation…

Palin’s Prayer Shield

By Anthea Butler

…Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, released this week. Bailey’s book is also competing against Geoffery Dunn’s latest book, The Lies of Sarah Palin. With the unflattering books and criticism from her boss at Fox, you’d think that she would back off from running for president. Au contraire! Should Palin enter the race (and I am betting she will), it will fill a gap left by Huckabee’s decision not to run. Palin will not appeal to all evangelicals or c…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…pe Francis that gives us hints about who he is. The most recent revelation comes after comments he made at a working class church San Cirillo Allessandro, on the outskirts of Rome on the first Sunday of Advent. According to L’Osservatore Romano, the Pope told parishioners he had once been a bouncer, but that his work later in life teaching psychology and literature taught him how to get people back into the church. No surprise then, that Pope Fran…

Pastor Implicated in Sex Abuse Scandal is Back

By Rob Shryock

…the last day what a difference this conference made.” But he saved his greatest praise for Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, architect of the “conservative revolution” in the Southern Baptist Convention, and the top-billed speaker at the conference. Comparing Mohler to legendary American pastor Jonathan Edwards, Mahaney rhapsodized about how smart Mohler is by gushing over his “stack of books”: I’ve seen his stack…

In OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative

By Joseph Laycock

…erent Satanic group) has campaigned to erect a monument to Satan on the grounds of the state capital to complement the current monument of the Ten Commandments. After Michael Tate Reed II rammed his car into the Ten Commandments monument on October 24, shattering it, the Satanic Temple released a statement condemning the destruction. Headlines initially described Reed as a Satanist, but he has now been identified as someone who suffers from severe…

Republicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…e that I’m right: Zeke Miller reports in TIME that all Republican National Committee leaders are being offered a free trip to Israel, thanks to the American Family Association and the American Renewal Project: The 168 members of the committee, three from each state, district, and territory, have been invited to visit the country from Jan. 31–Feb.8, 2015, paid for by conservative political operative David Lane’s American Renewal Project and the Ame…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…can be understood as—citing Proust—“giving rise to what is ‘real without being actual, ideal without being abstract.’” Tweeting the Real We live in a time of lies, and endlessly deepening, circulating suspicion. This is also a time of exhaustion, powerlessness, anomie, and drift. The performance and demonstration of “truth” is thus everywhere assailed, but we still demand that it remain a central category (if not for politics as such, then for ou…

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rise of Billy Graham (his famous New York City crusade was in 1957), the founding of Campus Crusade of Christ (1951), and other evangelical groups aiming to fulfill the Great Commission. Elliot’s story emerged at the center of the wave of these movements. As global capitalism began to make middle-class life more and more comfortable, something was needed shake people out of their settled religious ways. Human effort, to the point of imperilment of…