In the News: Reading & Resisting
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →
Tag: violence
The Remembrance of Amalek
King Philip’s War and the many beginnings and ends of sacred violence in America. By Ed Simon. Continue Reading →
How Not To Do What We Always Do
Donovan O. Schaefer reviews
Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression by Hector A. Garcia
In the News – Heathens, Hymns, and Holy Men
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
In the News: Mad Men, Mormons, Monks, and more!
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
The Last Twentieth-Century Book Club: Salem Kirban, Part 2
“The Last Twentieth Century Book Club” is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly . Continue Reading →
In The News: Breaking Bad, Thanksgivukkah, The Vatican, George Bernard Shaw & much more
A round-up of recent religion & media news. Continue Reading →
Mediating Our Dead
By Rachel Wagner We have become incapable of sitting with tragedy and loss, and instantly seek to make order of it through media. Continue Reading →
Daily Links: Big Fat Tolerance Edition
Russian gay extremists; Patronizing employers; A Brownback woman; Jesus’ juice; Milquetoast Patel; Other, the world’s 12th religion; Liberty wolves; ideology-smashing samaritan; Damn anarchists; Government by any other name (like the presidency); Tolerance ponies. Continue Reading →
Tolerance Makes Kids Gay
“Tolerance” is considered a general good, an aspirational goal that, when done right, ameliorates violence and promotes understanding. But “tolerance” has a number of definitions in play on the current political stage. The dispute over its meanings is at the heart of a new bill in California that would institute the education of school children about the historical impact of gays. Continue Reading →