Religion Dispatches
What’s the connection between feminism and the war on terror? How do indigenous activists use US influence to effect change in their own governments? Why was George H.W. Bush nicknamed “rubbers”? The author of a new book on reproductive rights in the global context answers these questions and then some.
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It was never about “gays vs. God” for lesbian and gay Christians. In Bulletproof Faith, a lesbian minister urges us all to become fundamentalists—but not the kind you think.
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Darwin’s abhorrence for slavery, and his determination to counter the wrongs being done in the name of science, was a spur to his research on evolution. He was committed to proving that humanity had a common ancestor.
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In an interview with Bruce Ledewitz on his forthcoming Hallowed Secularism, the law professor tells RD that the so-called New Atheists want to lead secularists, many of whom know very little about religion, into opposition to religion. But for secularism to be healthy, he says, it must learn from the wisdom of the religious traditions.
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William D. Hart’s new book charts the black spiritual imagination through the journeys of Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.
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It has been written of her that “in a truly just world, she would be Pope.” Rosemary Radford Ruether calls for an inclusive, even prophetic church in her latest book, Catholic Does Not Equal The Vatican.
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A philosopher connects the dots between mysticism and modernity, arguing that technology—human invention—is not in opposition to an idealized state of nature, but is part of an ever-evolving created world.
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Intellectual and philosophical encouragement for America’s largest and most invisible minority: atheists, agnostics, secularists, and the undecided.
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Bush connections to JFK, the Bay of Pigs, and the Saudi royal family are investigated by renowned journalist Russ Baker in his new book, hot off the press.
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A new guidebook to the city of Atlanta, Sacred Places, focuses on civil rights sites, from churches to restaurants, and shows how the history of the struggle for freedom still permeates the urban landscape.
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