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It’s Not “Inappropriate” for Public School Teacher to Tell Class that Obama Isn’t Christian

By Joseph Laycock

…s cannot discuss important controversial topics and that schools must be “religion free zones.” Superintendent Ledbetter announced that he’s considering more diversity and sensitivity training for teachers. He also sent a certified letter to the parents explaining that the incident will not happen again and that Nancy Perry is retiring. A local NBC affiliate reported, “The superintendent believes it goes back to a basic lesson: don’t talk politics…

Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…om which—I will risk this seeming blasphemy—it would not be well for it to free itself completely: and that is the cult of the human being, of the human body, mind and flesh, feeling and will, instinct and conscience. Sometimes flesh, feeling and instinct have the upper hand, and sometimes mind, will and conscience, for these are the two despots who strive for primacy within us, and whose conflict often rends us cruelly. We have to attain a balanc…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…achel Maddow has helped bring the whole issue of subversive far-right evangelical religion to a wider public (and gotten some flak for it). But in the light of the Obama presidency—and the rabid right-wing opposition to it—it’s worth noting that the majority of the lies being told about our president, his programs, and the Democratic Party are originating not just from the right wing but from the evangelical right wing in particular. Destroying th…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…rception assumes that magically, if an ultra-large megachurch opens as a shelter, then all will be made well. Magically. Henry Emerson Fosdick, former pastor of Riverside Church in New York famously preached that “God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.” Yet, it appears as though much of American Christianity has, in essence, shaped God as one who answers to buttons that are pressed. Osteen’s feel-good messages ha…

‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…is 12:2) with the modern nation-state of Israel. The idea of different Israels is well-established in Jewish tradition between the Am Yisrael (the people of Israel), the Eretz Yisrael (a geographical name given to the southern Levant), and the Medinat Yisrael (the modern-day State of Israel). Christians have, themselves, historically laid claim to being the “people of Israel” in supersessionist fashion, and have often conflated various Israels: th…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…horoughly studied the impact of having lifted the gay bans in Britain, Israel, Canada and Australia. Perhaps the most striking thing that Belkin and his group found was that in Canada, sexual harassment of service women fell 46 percent when the gay ban disappeared. Would-be harassers realized women were now “free to report assaults without fear that they would be accused of and subsequently discharged for being a lesbian.” In the U.S. military, th…

Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel

By Martin Kavka

…f we have anything to learn from Wiesel, it is that we human beings are a self-betraying lot. From the very beginning of his writing career, Wiesel was worried that his testimony would somehow go wrong. In the 1970s, as he recollected the years before he published Night, he wrote: “I knew that the role of the survivor was to testify. Only I did not know how. . . how can one be sure that the words, once uttered, will not betray, distort the message…

Capitalism and Christianity

By Peter Montgomery

…irst glance that seems difficult to accept given white evangelicals’ overwhelming electoral support for the Republican Party. But that finding is buttressed by another one: that only 44 percent of white evangelicals are economic conservatives in this survey’s analysis, while nearly two-thirds are social conservatives. That helps explain why some progressive economic policies like boosting the minimum wage draw high and cross-cutting support. Reli…

Paranoia Over Foreigners in Egypt Eclipsed by Cooperation

By H.A. Hellyer

…ve always known. But the Egypt I have known would never have seen people feeling free to voice their criticisms of the president so strongly or openly – that type of attitude certainly existed prior to this uprising, but was limited to private meetings, or outside of Egypt. In that Square, while it is still the same country that we have always known, there was something different. As the discussions go on behind the scenes, all are waiting to see…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…a. The Hitching Post offers three venues for the wedding: a chapel, mostly free of religious symbols but adorned with flowers and foliage; a “Western room,” with cowboy-boot-and-gun decor; and a “Victorian Sitting Room,” which also has flowers and foliage. The ministers will also perform weddings at ski resorts and outdoor locations. They have performed weddings on boats, on horseback, on roller coasters, and in hot air balloons. None of this seem…