Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom
I would like to respond to Daniel Philpott’s reaction to my piece on the politics…
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Rand Paul Rattles the Personhood Crowd
Ryan Lizza describes the recent dust-up over Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) support for emergency contraception,…
Read MoreAre Religious Leaders Prepared to Engage “Religious Liberty” Questions Post-Hobby Lobby?
Popular coverage of the fallout from the Hobby Lobby decision has largely fallen off, but…
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Fight The New “Hobby Lobby” Religious Order: Get Ordained
Like many of you, I’ve been spending much of July fuming over how to properly…
Read MoreHoney, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns
Whatever happened to that great big Roman Catholic Church? It seems to be shrinking before…
Read MoreTo All Abortion Purists:
The ‘morning after’ Gosnell: Can we agree on some of the basics?
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Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren
What McLaren is after is a Christian faith that is not automatically hostile to other faiths and to no faith: he calls this “strong-benevolent” Christianity, observing along the way that only active peacemakers can really claim to be connected to God with any real degree of credibility—a point that should be obvious but isn’t.
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The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement
As the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade passed, evangelical leaders marked the occasion with histories of how their community took up the anti-abortion cause.
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Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make
In the process of doing all they could to defeat Obama, self-proclaimed and media-designated evangelicals discredited their message and reduced it to a mere political gospel.
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Death Without Religion
Many (obviously) look to religion for answers. Not me. Even if I consider myself somewhat religious, I have a hard time accepting the life-after-death claims of my own religion, Judaism. The dilemma is not uncommon: Although 80-90% of Americans believe in God, some 25-50% do not believe in life after death (the numbers depend on the study). So when considering death, many of us turn to less spiritual pursuits. Two recent books attempt exactly that: to explore the nature and meaning of death without religious filters. Shelly Kagan’s Death uses philosophy to define mortality and how best to live with the knowledge of it; Dick Teresi’s The Undead explores how science and technology is changing how we define death—and not for the better.
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