Will Gay Marriage Split the Church? Yep.
A recent article in Time quoting conservative Christians decrying the split in the church makes it sound as if this isn’t the normal state of things.
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Chabon, Safran-Foer, Krauss—the “New Yiddishists”—Don’t Speak Yiddish
On Vanity Fair’s profile of the post-Roth and Bellow generation of Jewish novelists.
Read MoreSex Buys the Pulitzer Prize
Why is the highest journalistic award handing out prizes for reporting on the sexual dalliances of powerful pols? And we wonder why papers are closing their doors?
Read MoreA Kinder, Gentler Homophobia
A USA Today op-ed urges evangelical Christians to change the terms of the conversation with gays and lesbians. But the end goal is the same: to change the homosexual into a non-homosexual.
Read MoreNuancing the Fear of Islam is Smart, Not Political
The word Islamophobia is used so broadly that it risks losing its meaning; fear is not the same thing as hatred.
Read MoreRDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism
Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett—the new atheists are often out of their depth when it comes to real engagement with religious ideas. And what if the new atheism is not so much about theology as about politics?
Read MoreWho Are The ‘Religious Progressives’— and Why Use Such an Odious Term?
In the debate over what it means to be a religious progressive, the terms of the religious right have been adopted and a new way must be forged.
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Of Taxes, Tea, and Timidity: What Obama Should Tell the Protest’s Right-Wing Organizers
Obama might mention the super rich, for example.
Read MoreThe Terrorism & Poverty Myth
Does poverty breed terrorism? Best-selling author Jared Diamond says it does, in a piece this week on the New York Times op-ed page. That’s not really Diamond’s point.
Read MoreCloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters
In Hollywood, apocalypticism sells.
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