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Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science

By Lauri Lebo

…ation down here and stopped by for a visit. A philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, Forrest has been at the forefront of fundamentalist attacks on religion since she co-authored with Paul Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse, which connects the statements of the movement’s leaders, providing inescapably clear evidence that the intelligent design movement is religiously motivated. She is also a gracious host. As we drive, Forrest…

Yearning For A God We Can Live With

By Benjamin Weiner

…metaphysical treatise, blending traditional Judaism with the wisdom of the East. Both authors fit within the demographic of Generation X, though with widely differing biographies. Selmanovic, in his early forties, is Croatian by birth, the son of a secular Muslim family who came of age in communist Zagreb and embraced Christianity during mandatory service in the Yugoslav army; a transformation that led to a schism with his family and his immigrati…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…Semites, then what justification is there for a Jewish state in the Middle East? By attempting to demonstrate the Khazar origins of Eastern European Jewry, Mr. Sand—a self-described post-Zionist who believes that Israel needs to shed its Jewish identity to become a democracy—aims to undermine the idea of a Jewish state. Remarkably, the New York Times published an article titled “Book Calls Jewish People an Invention” without mentioning the call fo…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…ns: Religion as defined by the great sages of India, China, and the Middle East was not a notional activity but a practical one; it did not require belief in a set of doctrines but rather hard, disciplined work, without which any religious teaching remained opaque and incredible. The Ascent of Intellectual Orthodoxy For most of Western history, religion has been primarily a matter of orthopraxy, not orthodoxy. In fact, no doctrine made any sense w…

Muslim Voices Festival: Story-telling For a New Millennium

By Hussein Rashid

…ed by Farooqi’s more formal introduction. He cracked a joke that while the East was developing stories, the West was developing technology, and he wouldn’t have it any other way, showing the deep cultural impact of stories. Both Farooqi and Husain talked about the etiquette of the performance. In a traditional setting, there would be more performer-audience interaction, but in this setting, they had to get through the stories. In addition, rather…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…sells flu protection gear (masks, goggles, disinfectant) out of his Lower East Side apartment as a deadly H5N1 pandemic washes over the city, causing massive casualties and wreaking havoc to the social fabric. Better equipped and informed than the vast of majority of his fellow New Yorkers, the narrator composes a blog that chronicles his city’s struggles and wins an international following. The novel contains several plotlines, including the nar…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…a Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, and has lived throughout the Middle East. He brings a casual language that makes his arguments easy to process and a pleasure to read, communicating sensitivities about and intimacies with both regions that cannot be faked. Vali Nasr is among other things Professor of International Politics at Tufts’ Fletcher School and part of Richard Holbrooke’s Afghanistan-Pakistan team, whose recent works have received si…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…older daughter who will want to make a contribution to peace in the Middle East? A few girls a little older than they are, from two or three oil-rich families, or maybe just from one rich family, can finance the project. The second cousin of the Jewish girl, who lives in New York, has come to Israel for his bar mitzvah. Everyone knows that when his grandfather dies he is going to inherit a lot of money. Both girls have been up late whispering with…

“Not a Christian Book”: The Perils of the Amazon Book Review

By Charlotte Gordon

…ionship with these two women is a foundational myth not only in the Middle East, but also in the west. Whether or not we are believers, we are still awash in its wake as it helps explain many of the battles between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. I set the first scene in Nasireya, the Iraqi city that was the location of early battles in the recent war, but which is also known as Ur, the traditional birth place of Abraham and Sarah, the founding…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…erested in serving Jesus they would be called to places like Peoria or the East Village once in a while. But they’re really only interested in being close to power; without having to do the hard work to actually run for electoral office or get boring bureaucratic jobs inside the government. The radical religious right are the ultimate camp followers. They’re latching onto government for a free ride while decrying it. They want to overthrow the pre…