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What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts

By Chrissy Stroop

…e to Abuse,” Shellnutt’s article—which, incidentally, never defines gossip—deals primarily with the broad issue of abuse of power in the Christian workplace. It focuses mainly on the case study of Ramsey Solutions, a popular evangelical financial planning company that is largely indistinguishable from the “ministry” and person of its founder, Dave Ramsey, whose hardline approach to debt is appealing to many conservative evangelicals. Ramsey Soluti…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…ceremony in August 2016 for the Alliance of Independent Journalists, which bestowed a prestigious freedom of expression award on two LGBT rights defenders, a week later he took pains to explain that he had no prior knowledge of the award winners’ identities. St. Helena: Legislative Council votes for marriage equality The legislative council of this British Overseas Territory voted nine to two to allow same-sex couple to marry: Cyril Leo and Brian…

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

By Jay Michaelson

…obstacles in his way—everything from traffic accidents to rigged business deals—and threaten Norris with death if he reveals their existence to anyone. One angel, nicknamed “The Hammer,” (played beautifully by Terence Stamp) warns that if he follows his heart, not only his dreams but Elise’s too will be ruined; he issues this warning in the form of an injury during her performance. So Norris faces a dilemma: Will he resign himself to fate, or pur…

Distortions Aside, Clergy Support Gay Rights in Surprising Numbers

By Peter Montgomery

…ial is evidenced by one of the most striking findings in the survey, which deals with support for same-sex marriage among clergy in the “Uncertain Middle” (which, remember, is a 41 percent plurality of the overall group). When asked whether they support marriage for same-sex couples, civil unions but not marriage, or no legal recognition at all, only 26 percent of clergy in the uncertain middle initially choose marriage equality. But when asked a…

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…at least in principle, these are the kinds of questions that D.A.V.I.D. is best equipped to provoke. A huge dream to put on technology When I visited SES, Staley replayed for me the robotic routine—also called, in NAO-user lingo, a “behavior”—that he designed for the robot’s unveiling. Staley has the patient, low-key attitude of an engineer, though he programmed the robot to open with some banter and corny jokes before getting suddenly, almost chi…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…o reported in these pages that the program included a discussion about how best to deal with religious belief and its relationship to science. The session was named “Science and Religion: Confrontation or Accommodation?” Or, to be abundantly clear, the question was: How should atheists and secular people deal with religious people? Should they be accommodated or confronted? My answer is: Neither one. Perhaps those atheists who want to advance thei…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…’re not the actual descendants of the biblical Israelites, but converts at best and imposters at worst; alleges that Jews created the Holocaust story to preserve their power; reasserts the role of European Jews in the Atlantic Slave Trade; and advances a larger narrative about Jewish global domination which can be traced to Christian (and later more broadly European) stereotypes. This story about Jewish global domination, as irony would have it, i…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…th century concept of quality common schooling—which really was “America’s best idea” (which is not to say that the creation of a national park system was a bad idea). The well-heeled wannabe saviors have all rallied behind the Obama-Duncan cash competition to induce states to trash established practices and put forward the most edgy and experimental ideas in order to boost student achievement on standardized tests: as if we do not already have en…

What Does Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism Mean for Jewish Philosophy?

By Aubrey L. Glazer

…s engaged in this book, although you are correct that the core of the book deals with European thinkers, who wrote in German and French. On the most elemental level, my philosophical training was primarily in what used to be called continental philosophy, and especially in hermeneutics and phenomenology. I was also interested in American thought, especially the pragmatism of James, Peirce and Dewey, and in the Anglo-Saxon process thought of Whiteh…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…on the other side. When he and his brother Peter Lalonde first turned the best-selling books into movies, they argued it wasn’t possible to make Left Behind in a way that would appeal both to people who were waiting for the rapture and people who thought the whole thing was preposterous. You couldn’t do both. They made the movie cheap and released it to the home market. It only had a limited run in theaters the following year Peter Lalonde said s…