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Latest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…or agencies, effectively gutting existing LGBT protections in those areas. South Dakota led the way, followed by Alabama, and Texas’ SB 156. The avalanche of anti-LGBT legislation already passing necessitates a sobering reminder: It’s only March. “Several state legislatures have filed religious refusal laws this year, claiming that their goal is to curb ‘government discrimination’ against religious people or organizations,” said Ashe McGovern, the…

Conservative and Liberal Voices Combine to Condemn Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…neral minister of my own denomination, the United Church of Christ, on the list of signatories, along with Emerging Church authors Brian McLaren and Diana Butler Bass. Other usual suspects include Sojourners’ Jim Wallis, The Rev. Canon Peg Chemberlin, Incoming President of the National Council of Churches of Christ USA, Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, the General Minister and President of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Cana…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Henry Jenkins___________ “But Which One?” OK, Amanda usually annoys me but she’s at the center of several interesting issues this week. We can start with the ways Caprica is pitting psychology against religion. Psychology has taught Amanda that her “visions” of her “dead” brother are illusions, signs of madness, while Clarice understands them as a spark of the d…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…he Caprica pilot – Dayeinu But The Caprican? At the very moment when journalists wonder what and if they have a future, Ron Moore reveals we have a very deep past (Did you catch the New York Times’ bungling of the timeline?) Since none of you, as I do, teach journalism, this may seem incidental—but it goes to the heart of what made BSG a knockout series and may do the same for Caprica: the shows’ embedded humanism. Whereas most TV dramas are good…

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

By Shalom Goldman

…that prompted the readers to indulge me—the book stayed on the bestseller list for nineteen weeks. Sand explains this sharp split among his book’s Israeli readers by pointing to a widening gulf between Israeli’s public intellectuals, many of whom are critical of a strident nationalism based on Jewish ethnic solidarity, and his colleagues in the large history departments of Israeli universities, who are enmeshed in an academic system that separat…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…r cultures that are essentially modern. In relationships between fundamentalist and non-fundamentalists, it seems to me that the challenge becomes translational—how do you talk across boundaries? I know you’ve written about this, but I frequently joke that the liberals are all one tradition in a sense, and it is easier to get them to talk to each other. But the real challenge is when you might try to get liberals and fundamentalists from the same…

Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…nger of religion. God as Prozac creates a paradigm shift for defense specialists requiring them to find the suspect Sufi mystics before their entranced followers go ‘self-annihilative’ and take down the world with them, as they blow themselves into a state of divinely mediated pleasure. The first suspects who spring to mind are: Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, Hamza Yusuf, and Pir Zia Khan. All three are notable Sufi practioners in the diverse fie…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…on’s picks for the embodying the spirit of the Antichrist. Fellow televangelist Robert Tilton declared Ole Anthony, founder of Trinity Foundation, to be the Antichrist. Then you have the Sex Pistols, who state that they are an Antichrist, as does “Antichrist Superstar” Marilyn Manson and lots of other wannabe satanist rockers. Also, just about every world leader who opposes the United States tends to get tagged “the Antichrist.” Seems to me that c…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…ve with my profession after reading a collection called The Literary Journalists, edited by Norman Sims, with pieces by Tracy Kidder, John McPhee, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, and so on. It opened my eyes to the idea that you could write about things and people in the world with the fluency and drama of fiction. That’s what I aspire to, and those are the writers I most admire, or emulate. Today, the best in the business is Adam Gopnik; I always read pi…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…ernet and conservative talk radio. The elite scapegoats for right-wing populists today are liberals and Democrats trying to pass “socialist” health care schemes as a first step toward a totalitarian fascist society. The scapegoats lower on the socio-economic ladder are immigrants, community organizers, and Muslims. Last fall in Boise, I ran into the Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President of the Interfaith Alliance, of which I am a card-carrying membe…