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Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ong the things we’d intended to do in July and August of 2003—an ambitious list that included things like getting married, moving to a new state, buying our first house, starting a doctoral program (me), and trying to find a job (my husband)—we had not planned also to conceive a child. It seemed like a bad time to do that, under the circumstances. But there our son was, announcing his presence with a second pink line on a pee-stick, in stubborn de…

The Way of the Brother: How Critics Missed the Boat on Tree of Life

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…n Nature and Grace By suggesting we see Tree of Life not in terms of a dualistic choice, but as a “middle way,” I also mean to trigger a Buddhist sensibility to the film that runs alongside the more overtly Christian one. There is no space to develop a full account of this here, but it is worth mentioning that a “Buddhist reading” is entirely plausible. In fact, many of Malick’s films—in terms of cinematography, mise-en-scene, soundtrack, and edi…

‘Republicanity’—The GOP Transformation is Nearly Complete

By Gary Laderman

…antorum (okay, this last one is short on charisma but people still seem to listen anyway)—is critical to the success of this religious movement, with the primary sacred textual sources legitimating the moral universe drawn from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. What is the operative creed for Republicanity? This is, by no means, an exhaustive list: Money rules and wealth is the greatest good; the natural world is at the disposal o…

The Perry v. Bachmann Primary at Liberty Unversity

By Sarah Posner

…anwhile, Perry’s supporters are going public. After news broke of televangelist James Robison’s secret meetings with Perry and religious conservative leaders, Robison released a complete list of those leaders on his blog. Referring to his September 2010 and June 2011 meetings as “supernatural gatherings,” Robison was obviously trying to rebut speculation that the group was supporting Perry for president, but rather that they were just feeling the…

Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

By MaryAnn McKibben Dana

…epent of “any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin”—a list that includes transgressions as varied as usury, “undue delay of marriage,” and “immoderate use of meat.” (What now for patrons of Brazilian steakhouses?) Of course, the struggle for full acceptance of LGBT people began way before efforts to repeal the so-called “fidelity and chastity” rule. Many folks mark the 1974 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church as the…

Triple Fundamentalism: The New American Conservatism

By Julie Ingersoll

…m the era of conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, to today’s populist anti-intellectuals (my term). He writes: In all three cases, the pattern is the same. There is the eternal Truth that never varies—the will of God, the principles of the Founding Fathers, the so-called laws of the free market. There are the scriptures which explain the eternal truths—the King James Bible, in the case of religious fundamentalism, the Constitution or the…

Devil’s Bookmark: How Not to Defend God

By Bernard Schweizer

…rding to that line of reasoning, what would the “practical God,” the gradualist God, the God-who-is-ready-to-lower-his-standards say about the treatment of victims in the German concentrations camps? Meet the Nazis halfway? Let’s spare the children and only send adults to the crematoria? Or feed the concentration inmates on better food and clothe them more decently before exterminating them? And here’s the problem: God is excused on grounds of “gr…

Creationist Theme Park Gets $43 Million in Tax Rebates

By Lauri Lebo

…on. “The state of Kentucky should not be promoting the spread of fundamentalist Christianity or any other religious viewpoint,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “Let these folks build their fundamentalist Disneyland without government help.” Of course, building the Ark according to biblical specifications should be a piece of cake thanks to this explanation by Creation Science Research: The first objection assum…

Virginia Attorney General Tells Pastors to Get More Involved in Politics

By Julie Ingersoll

…warning that “Virginia Pastors are Losing the Culture Wars.” VCA’s website lists its heroes, several of whom have Christian Reconstructionist ties, including David Barton, the late D. James Kennedy, Ken Ham, Roy Moore, and Pat Robertson. The other event sponsor, Fredericksburg Christian Schools, (FCS) claims that parents bear the God-ordained responsibility for education and the schools and churches are to assist them in that role. Conspicuously a…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…smaller brains” (Houston Chronicle) In fact, that’s a somewhat selective list of stories on the findings of a highly selective study. Involving less than three hundred people, the study looked at the brain volume of a group of people it divvied up according to religious affiliation (Protestant, Catholic, “born again” and unaffiliated). (Un)born again Protestants apparently won the brain volume prize. Bracketing the question of who devises studi…