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Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…label requires. In this formulation, antisemitism is an eternal, causeless hatred that defines Jews’ lachrymose history. It predates Christianity, persisting from Haman’s attempted extermination of the Israelites to the desecration of the Temple; from Jewish exile and pogroms, to expulsions, persecutions, and annihilations—and now, to those who would attack Israel. What binds these different events, historical periods, and even categories of Jewis…

George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook

By Patricia Miller

…e primacy of conscience, the preference of experience over dogma, and—for that matter—freedom of the press.” But according to Weigel’s revisionist history, Vatican II wasn’t a call to evolve the Church to respond to the modern, but a response by the Church to the rising tide of secularism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. In his view the certainties of Christendom had been “deconstructed” by a litany of evils, including Darwi…

Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…ons, who are never given the same benefit of the doubt as Christians. For what it’s worth, by the way, it turns out that Boebert, who attends New Creation Church in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, does understand and affirm orthodox Christian atonement theology about Jesus’s crucifixion. It didn’t take much effort to dig up video of her, in 2021, fluently quoting the New Testament and rhapsodizing about how Christians “love freedom so much… because it…

Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?

By Ira Chernus

…still did not get down to the foundational level of myth. Netanyahu made that clear in the speech that offered his pro forma commitment to a two-state solution. What many took as a sea change in Jewish political life was actually only a small part of the speech. Look at the whole rhetorical entity, and the message was quite different: Upper-story stories, even seemingly fundamental ones, can come and go, but the foundational myth endures. After s…

Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem with Popularization

By Kathryn Lofton

…t is an act of leadership”), Vowell extols: “Even though my head tells me that the idea that America was chosen by God as His righteous city on a hill is ridiculous, my heart still buys into it.” To make that city on the hill, we must find heroes in their obscurity and rebuttals. We must, in short, find our inner Roger Williams: Williams’ greatness lies in his refusal to keep his head down in a society that prizes nothing more than harmony and gro…

Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…miraculous transformation of the humble. So it should come as no surprise that Christian churches sometimes go to considerable lengths to protect and preserve the practice of the eucharist from variations or influences that could distort or obscure its compelling core. When the Vatican issued expanded guidelines for the elements to be used in Catholic celebrations of the eucharist, it included a restatement of a prohibition of totally wheat-gluten…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…the AP reported. According to the AP, the company is still “operating on that basic model, including prices that tend to be higher than those of their competitors, Amway saw global sales revenue top $7.1 billion in its 2007 financial year. The company predicts another $1 billion increase this year. And most of its recent growth, in such developing Asian markets as China, India, and Russia, has been under the Amway name.” Despite hiring marketing…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…ther words, greater productivity at work. Without aspects of the practice that challenge that intention, can’t it just get reinforced? It could be true, which is why I am very careful about it. When I was at Google, I hadn’t hosted any speakers that said, “I am doing meditation to create the conditions for world peace and to help me become more successful.” So I said both. I think you’re right. I think in this industry it’s really important for th…

Christianity’s Greatest Counterfeit

By Willie James Jennings

…ple to see Christianity as a much wider, more diverse and inclusive faith that cannot be captured by either Republican or Democrat. But is that the case? I think not. The Republican Christians who now inhabit Congress have in most cases assertively presented their Christian faith as the glue that binds together their public service, their connection to their constituencies, and their policy thinking. It also frames the way they understand both col…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…ou can charge your cell phone or blend your free smoothie, the spirit has that vibe, that playful spirit of early hope. Our skateboarder is ready to ride. Here you can see mushrooms growing out of logs injected with coffee grounds. Beautiful, edible oyster mushrooms. You can buy a nice meal in a glass dish, which is recycled. You can get a free recyclable cup to drink water out of a fountain. You can sign a climate ribbon (which had its first prom…