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Frank Schaeffer has some big problems with fundamentalist Christians. But he also has big problems with the New Atheists.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
The reality of our life, whether we like it or not, includes both ends of this spectrum. Everything is happening on its own and everything is flowing through intention.
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Jane Devin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
In the fantastical world of fundamentalist religiopolitics, it is acceptable for Glenn Beck to call Obama a racist, but not acceptable to question the racial motives behind the frighteningly ignorant attacks on Obama.
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
The Islamic clerics are to Iran what Wall St. is to the U.S.
Nelson Davis | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
I carry the missionary zeal necessary to be a good fundamentalist and feel that if more people understood and embraced my capitalist beliefs, the world would be a better place.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
Believer Beware is laugh out loud funny, touching, irreverent and yet, in deeper ways, pays religion the ultimate compliment: it's worthy of scrutiny, debate, hate, and love.
Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics
A report from Al Jazeera expertly covers a topic the US media has been reluctant to address: an aggressive effort to advance a heavily sectarian, supremacist form of Christianity in the United States military.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
I believe the Bible offers great historical material, but is not and cannot be credited with any Supreme Being as its author.
Brittany Huckabee | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
Ultimately, I don't believe the sermons given at the mosque in Morgantown represent anything more or less dangerous than those I heard in my church. They reflect the universal fare of conservative religion.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
In case you missed it, Pew released survey data showing that the more frequently someone went to church, the more likely they were to approve of torture.
Kevin Roose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
When I stepped on to the campus of Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University for my first day as a new transfer student, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
The US is showing some signs of "getting tough" with Israel. But where are the calls for getting tough with Saudi Arabia, that "other" country that has now enjoyed virtually unconditional, bipartisan support from the United States for decades?
Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
When did viewing the world with a sense of wonder at its marvels and goodwill toward its occupants ever feel unnatural? It's the most natural state on earth.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
The Christian Bible culminates in a death and resurrection story. What is this story, and where did it come from?
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.
Johann Hari | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
Last week, I wrote an article defending free speech for everyone -- and in response there have been riots, death threats, and the arrest of an editor who published the article.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business
Microcredit is the one banking system that is actually working. What other bank these days is made up mostly of women borrowers and can claim a 98-99% payback rate? Surely not Citibank!
Valerie Tarico | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living
The role of the evangelical minister is to help his followers know what is real and how to live. It is about taking our complicated, fast-moving, sometimes scary world and distilling it into Four Spiritual Laws.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
All fundamentalists decry, deny, or ignore the multiple dimensions of life that fall outside their particular theologies and ideologies. Fundamentalist consumerists could not care less about workers' rights, human-scale business, and environmental sanity.
Soona Samsami | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
Iran's monopolistic, suppressive, dogmatic, misogynous, and terrorist political regime strives to preserve and expand the velayat-e-faqih (absolute rule of the clergy).
Valerie Tarico | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
How quickly we turn brutish when we idolize the fears and angers of our ancestors or our own fear and anger, and thus give divine sanction to our darkest impulses.
Russell Shorto | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
One reason for the hunger for change is that the years of the Bush presidency have coincided with a worldwide rise of fundamentalisms: Christian, Muslim, and secular.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
All that matters in this election is the economy, and, try as he might, McCain cannot escape from his lifelong adherence to economic fundamentalism.
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John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living