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Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…y of Religion-Society of Biblical Literature (AAR-SBL) national meeting in Chicago last month. If the experience of others was like mine, those of us with some years on the scene came away deeply dissatisfied. It wasn’t just the anxiety of those in the cattle call for the meat…er…job market. No, nor the ever larger, anonymous mob all packed into the neo-Brutalist McCormick Place convention center. (Overheard: “If Dante’s inferno had had an aircraf…

Jews and Baseball: A Reflection on a Longtime Love Affair

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…c representation of the sephirot, the emanations of God. One congregant in Chicago for many years gave a sermon every Yom Kippur on the moral lessons his fellow worshippers could glean from the sad fate of the Cubs. You can find a wonderful debate between two young rabbis on whether the Yankees or the Red Sox are “more Jewish” on the internet, as well as the response of another rabbi (with which I would concur) that the Dodgers have more credibili…

The Pope Is Not the Church

By Nathan Schneider

…Guatemala covered in wax and feathers and the parish on the South Side of Chicago that worships with a gospel choir and African dance. A pope is part of the Catholic package for sure, but only part. Catholic Christianity has a long tradition of being shaped from the margins, starting with its founder. The Jesus we meet in the Gospels is refreshingly indifferent to those who claim to run the institutions of the world, both religious and secular. H…

Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…rom Tennessee, evangelicals from Nebraska, and progressive Christians from Chicago. In fact, my wall sometimes feels like a mashup of Bill Gaither, Rob Bell, and Amanda Palmer—a quality I liken to our wonderfully pluralistic public square (whatever is left of it, at least). Among the multiple comments that were made, there was one that especially caught my eye. A friend of mine linked to this article by Stephen Smith of the University of San Diego…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…rated another victory, the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago. As the Times noted in an editorial earlier this month, the group’s executive director, Larry Pratt, said in an interview for that piece that when it comes to firearms, “we’re not really talking about a right but an obligation, as creatures of God, to protect the life that was given them.” In 2011, at a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, Pratt presented then-Rep. Ro…

Be Prepared: Preachers’ Daughters, Episode Eight

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…her parents’ dismay. She also attended a drag show at an all-ages club in Chicago. And Olivia Perry was asked by her parents to give a testimony at a church-sponsored youth campfire. And it’s at that point that I want to introduce you to Molli and Caleb, two youth who attended the campfire in question. Olivia designed an exercise for the youth that predictably brought some youth to a very vulnerable place. This is not necessarily a bad thing: gro…

Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…tory of religion in modern Manhattan. “But religion comes in an incredible number of forms.” The dizzying varieties of American religious experience, scholars say, has roots nearly as deep as old-time religion. At the University of Virginia Mr. Hedstrom teaches a popular class called “Spiritual but Not Religious,” which traces the evolution of American spirituality from the 19th-century Transcendentalists to Alcoholics Anonymous, yoga and “the gos…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…en I open her books,” writes Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, in the foreword to the new book, “a force of mind and heart comes out that simply will not submit to patriarchy. In a truly just world, she would be Pope.” Always a liberationist, Ruether calls again for a church committed to the vision of Jesus, “rooted in the person and ministry of Jesus Christ.” But the present Vatican regime takes its model…

Allowable Discrimination?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…bona-fides” of the president, a former law professor at the University of Chicago. And he has made it clear in the past that if you get a federal grant, it is unconstitutional to discriminate against the folks you serve or the people you employ. Let’s hope this is just a political ploy insofar as the president would rather do away with this discriminatory allowance behind closed doors rather than announcing it at yesterday’s National Prayer Break…

How To Win $20,000 From Sam Harris

By Rob Shryock

…uckily, Joesph Bingham has already done this for you. In the University of Chicago’s “Counterpoint” magazine, he points out that a society in which many people gain pleasure by torturing a few people for their own amusement is “morally superior,” by Harris’s definition. b) Disprove the idea that morality is absolute and scientifically measurable. Harris believes that there is necessarily one society that is the most moral. Said society, in theory…