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Illinois Pastors and Politicians Paint King as Homophobe

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

A group of pastors and political figures gathered near Chicago yesterday to paint a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a homophobe, um, I mean, a “man of God and a leader who fought for the civil rights of African Americans [who] was not a champion for gay rights.” To properly remember King, according to David E. Smith, executive director of Illinois Family Institute, who attended the luncheon, people must remember that “Martin Luther King…

Mao, Meet Confucius: China’s Religious Revolution

By Kwok Pui-lan

…andscape in China, President Hu Jintao will visit a Confucius Institute in Chicago on January 21, 2011, after his meeting with President Barack Obama and a state dinner at the White House. After a stringent purging of Confucian teachings during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Confucius has been rehabilitated by the government. Books and TV programs about Confucian teachings have become hugely popular, making some authors millionaires. And less…

Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…hough I snuck some of it into the footnotes—for example, the University of Chicago PhD student in the 1890s who does get access to the British Library’s “Secretum.” I may not have learned yet how to leave enough out of my work, but I think I have gotten closer to tautness with this book than most other things I have written. I wanted the Craddock story to be readable, not to let it get bogged down in my own tangential preoccupations. In that sens…

Bishops vs. Nuns: Who Spoke for God in 2010?

By Eugene McMullan

…ence of Catholic Bishops, outgoing President Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said that the Catholic debate over health care reform, in which nuns opposed the bishops, had caused “wounds to the church’s unity,” while raising the question of “who speaks for the Catholic Church.” Only the bishops, he said, “speak for the Church in matters of faith and in moral issues and the laws surrounding them.” Everything else is just “opinion.” But what is…

A Philosopher of Religion Calls it Quits

By Julia Galef

…rs renounce fields!” says Brian Leiter, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, at Leiter Reports. Parsons’ incendiary choice of words likely also bore some responsibility for the reaction. “I’m afraid what precipitated the thing going viral is that I said it was a fraud, which I shouldn’t have said, because ‘fraud’ implies an intentional attempt to fool people,” Parsons says. The “Miracle” is that People Believe At All His word choice may hav…

No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda

By Andrea R. Jain

…yoga and gave his famous speech to the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, which triggered the speaking tour that would take him all over the country, other Americans’ embrace of yoga was stirring plenty of conversation. Consider Pierre Bernard, a turn-of-the-century American social radical, sexual deviant, and early modern yogi. Bernard discovered yoga in his boyhood when he met an Indian yogi by the name of Sylvais Hamati in Li…

Double Helix: Science & Religion as Cultural Kindling; A Response to The New Republic

By Arri Eisen

…Coyne, a respected professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, reviews two books that attempt to reconcile science and religion: Karl Giberson’s Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (HarperOne, 2009) and Kenneth Miller’s Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul (Viking, 2009). Coyne’s own contribution to the conversation was also just published, and its title is self-explanatory: Why…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…er. I was in SF during the summer of ’68, when chaos was simmering, and in Chicago in August of ’68 when chaos erupted. I did the dope and lived the life. The sixties, as they did so many of my generation, made me. But what I have since read in academic discourse is never the reality I experienced. That came through instead in the literature of the times, and the underground comix, and the music. At Harvard, I was introduced to the Puritans by Ala…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…n. In addition, the eminence grise of Jewish social justice organizations, Chicago’s JCUA, hired Jill Jacobs, a Conservative Rabbi, as Director of Outreach and Education in 2004, and started a summer seminar for rabbis (modeled on Interfaith Worker Justice’s “Seminary Summer”) which integrates Torah study and the practice of social justice. But what really stands out is the new, though cautious, embrace of social justice goals by the institutions…

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ray over the earthquake in Chile calling it a “warning” during a speech in Chicago: “It’s not an accident that a great earthquake took place in Chile,” Farrakhan, 76, said an hour into his three-hour address. “It was a precipitate of what I have to tell you today of what’s coming to America. You will not escape.” “I will speak to the kings and rulers of the world. I will speak to the pope and the religious leaders because you have to know that you…