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The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…es becoming an ally instead of a watcher, and Buffy who, although she is always the slayer, is always becoming the slayer. And all of them becoming adults in such a way that the show can speak to folks of any age. These are the reasons that so many love the show, that so many see its revolutionary brilliance, the reasons I can’t wait to watch Buffy with my daughter. Buffy is indeed a profound show, but its profundity is always in how it tackled th…

“Digital Discipline”: Five Questions on #ReLent2016

By Anita Little

…dn’t be a part of that. Do you feel that tech can provide a more effective way of practicing religion? We Lutherans trace our history back to the Reformation in the 1600s, and the only way that it was able to take off was because of that new technology, the printing press. So without the printing press, there’s no way that Martin Luther’s ideas could have spread and triggered this fundamental revolution in the church. I feel the exact same thing i…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…written by a liberal Zionist that I’ve read. And yet, I think it misses a number of crucial elements—not so much in its diagnostics but in its framing of liberalism and its realistic suggestions for a new liberal Zionist paradigm. Full disclosure: I’ve known Donniel Hartman for a long time. We always seemed to have affinity and respect for one another’s ideas, even as our differences remain significant. I never quite understood why. After reading…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…e group also trotted out the tired warnings about “judicial activism” as a way of rallying support for McCain (presumably, Barack Obama’s judicial appointments would be “judicial activists”). Am I the only person who finds it a tad curious that whenever conservatives invoke the canard of “judicial activism” they fail to cite the most egregious example of judicial activism in recent years: Bush v. Gore? And I wonder if anyone at the meeting bothere…

Caste First, Christ Second, for Some Indian Christians

By Megan Sweas

…s have made efforts to decrease discrimination based on caste. “There’s no way we can run away from it.” In an effort to appeal to Christian and Muslim voters, the BJP’s minority wing has found a way around the idea that caste is Hindu only. The group passed a resolution in November 2011 supporting the Supreme Court case, giving Thomas and Arokiaraj hope that it will be resolved soon. These Hindus also look at religion as practice, rather than bel…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…—let us not forget that these criminals are greatly outweighed by the huge number going in the other direction, risking life and limb to get the hell out and away. Not only is it inaccurate and misleading to pretend that ISIS represents either Islam or any significant percentage of Muslims, it’s simply bad strategy, harms our national security, and leaves us more likely to be fighting solo. Whereas the more countries that fight with us, the more s…

In Israel, Left and Right Join to Protest New Government Threat to Democracy — What’s Striking is What’s Missing

By Shaul Magid

…lizing apartheid while claiming it’s not apartheid at all. In some bizarre way, these protests challenge the Right even as they benefit the Right. There are many on the Right who are sympathetic to the protests, despite having voted for the parties behind these new policies. Consider, for example, that in the so-called moderate religious Zionist city of Efrat in the Occupied West Bank, about 50% voted for Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ple 271, 524, and 535. [41] Robin Bravender and Timothy Cama, “Debate Takeaways: GOP bashes, ‘deep state,’ climate law,” Greenwire, August 24, 2023, https://www.eenews.net/articles/debate-takeaways-gop-bashes-deep-state-climate-law/. [42] Martin Pengelly, “US hard-right policy group condemned for ‘dehumanising’ anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric,” The Guardian, September 15, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/15/project-2025-policy-manifesto-lgbtq…

High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death

By Shaul Magid

…y. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, there’s no way to overestimate the way death evokes the need for religion of some sort. On Passover the pitch is, “They tried to kill us, God saved us, let’s eat.” On the High Holidays it’s a bit different; “God tried to kill us, God still might, let’s pray.” The centerpieces of the High Holiday liturgy include Unetaneh Tokef (“Who will live and who will die”), the Martyrology on Yom…

By the Way: “God Tells Me I’m Right”

By Randall Balmer

…ssential that such a “universal language,” to use Obama’s term, will in no way disadvantage those in any particular religious tradition or those who claim no religious sensibilities whatsoever. This, I believe, is what Obama was pointing to when he spoke about “what those of us of religious faith have to do when we’re in the public square is to translate our language into a universal language that can appeal to everybody.” And the perils of trying…