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Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…ol over the matter. So when I had to introduce myself I just went with the numbers as the doctor had given them to me. I’m in that pre-diabetes state, and if I get a handle on it I can avoid progression to a worse state, or stroke or death or whatever. I took her seriously when she told me and I took measures to address it before I came to class, ordering my own books to return the ones I borrowed from the library. Actually getting some of those l…

Are Academic Theologians Useless? Part II

By Tony Jones

…ng your work?” he asked with a clear tone of agitation, “Seriously, who is buying your books? Who is asking you to speak?” He went on to say, in no uncertain terms, that the academic theological guild is quickly becoming irrelevant. I don’t know if the Fitzmier-Jones tag team made much of a difference, but I was approached by John Cobb and Harvey Cox immediately after my screed, and they both said, in effect, “You’re right.” I was gratified to rea…

Obama Recognizes Gay Dads

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…unning the risk of alienating networks of pastors and church goers who may buy into the President’s overall but draw the line when it comes to traditional marriage. You put these normally supportive pastors in a tough situation because the fact of the matter is the whole ‘two fathers’ scenario DOES NOT play well in most Churches in America. And that is completely understandable. My first reaction to that concern was, “welcome to our world.” The LG…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…. Gen-Xers will perhaps appreciate the reference points. But it’s tough to buy Kennedy, now a libertarian and Republican, as a herald of the political future. Even if you haven’t read Jonathan Chait’s devastating critique of the Draper thesis, the Kennedy problem provides a clue to its content. The proposed Libertarian Moment is packaged up with generational confusion, leaving observers unsure of who, exactly, should be carrying the banner. Ed Kil…

Is Karen Armstrong Right? Was Religion Always About Belief or Not?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…erybody weighed in on them, whether you asked them to or not. You couldn’t buy a loaf of bread, Gregory complained, without the baker telling you that the Son was consubstantial with the Father…. Gregory’s point, and his concern, was that the debate had spiraled out of control and reached the point where people wanted to fight about Christology; they didn’t want to resolve it. That gives the lie to baber’s final claim that “[t]heologians and counc…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…ot just religious freedom. There was freedom to sell anything you want, to buy anything you want, to be anything you want, to believe anything you want, and to create any kind of religion you want. You may be persecuted for that, as the Mormons were, but if you’re willing to take on that risk, go nuts! So, yes—because we could, we did. That’s part of it. But I’m skeptical that this fully explains America’s peculiarity. If the religious free market…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…structure of the modern Christian and Political Right as the strategists whose tactics he looked to and copied when building what he calls “a conservative revolution” in France. He recalls that it was necessary to have “wealthy businessmen” willing to buy media outlets to build a right-wing media landscape from scratch, which had happened successfully in France—and thanks American conservatives for providing him with the strategies to create a con…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…y within you, and that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country. The odd Yoda-like phrasing of “the dogma lives loudly within you,” aside, Feinstein was asking a fair question about how the execution of Barrett’s religious beliefs would comport with her duties as a judge—a question that Barrett herself had raised, albeit in an article written some years ago. Barrett assured the…

Five Things We Can Learn From Creationists

By Nathan Schneider

…ck in 2007—complete with cavemen hanging out next to dinosaurs. The latest numbers from Pew say that 52% of Americans still don’t buy the monkey-to-man explanation. In the ’90s, along came intelligent design. They sort of believe you, Darwin, but sort of don’t. Okay, says biochemist Michael Behe, maybe evolution caused the origin of most species. But he stops at the bacterial flagellum. Not that. And if not that, maybe not other things. William De…

Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…oly: an elegy, really, for the old idea that money and the manipulation it buys are strongly antithetical to a healthy democratic public life. Particularly offensive in the majority’s ruling, written by Justice Kennedy, were the repeated references to congressional restrictions on corporate behavior vis-à-vis elections, as representing unconscionable and unconstitutional “censorship”—the majority clearly believing that private corporate money has…