When I was first assigned here two years ago, I was looking forward to catching the Hispanic spirit and culture. However, I soon learned that those in the local Evangelical Lutheran Church in America had struggled to reflect the demographics of our community.
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Lutherans past due in embrace of Hispanic community
Gerardo Marti This week afforded me a bit of reading and reflection through Heidegger’s Being and Time as part of my ongoing attempt to grow in my scholarship. As an ethnographer, I regularly immerse myself in religious communities both short and long term — see a recent post at Duke Divinity blog about a recent church visit — and as such am regularly confronted with what was introduced to me as “ the insider/outsider problem of religion .” The dilemma centers around a core question: Who is best able to understand religion, the committed or the agnostic? More important, what are the challenges and solutions for achieving a satisfactory understanding of religion (not just for scholars, but for everyone) considering one’s stance
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Heidegger and the Quandary of Insider/Outsider Roles in Religious Research: A Methodological Note
Kelly J. Baker It’s summer, which means fiction and sunshine, but I am teaching summer session. This means less fiction and sunshine, and more of a focus on my own teaching style and what I cover
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Gender Me, Gender Religion
Randall Stephens Over at the Washington Post ‘s On Faith blog Anthony Stevens-Arroyo offers an interesting historical take on Catholicism and contemporary politics. For those faithful who are ready to pitch their tent with the Tea Party, he points to a 16th-century counter example: Jesuit priest Juan de Mariana (1536-1624). Stevens-Arroyo contrasts the radicalism of Mariana with Tea Party anti-statism
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Anthony Stevens-Arroyo on Catholics and the Tea Party
By Michael J. Altman As I’ve mentioned before, I’m spending the summer working through that wonderful mid-Ph.D-program rite of passage: studying for qualifying exams. I’ve also just finished another rite of passage for students of American religious history.
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Meditations on a Classic, or, American Religious History in the 21st Century
Paul Harvey Thanks to Jon Walton, “Evangelicals Embracing Ecclesial Elitism? “, for calling my attention to this story, from the Boston Globe, about the crowning of the well-known black minister in Boston John M. Borders III as a Bishop.
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Baptist Bishops
Chelsea Clinton, raised Methodist, and Marc Mezvinsky, Jewish, will wed this weekend. Statistics show that 37 percent of Americans have a spouse of a different faith. Statistics also show that couples in interfaith marriages are “three times more likely to be divorced or separated than those who were in same-religion marriages.” Is interfaith marriage good for American society
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Should religions intermarry?
Paul Harvey Readers of my entries on this blog (those of you who are still awake, at any rate) will know of my previous career as a biology major (and thanks a lot, Physics 201, for making me see that perhaps History was a better way for me to go), and my literary love of Darwin’s Origin of the Species , which I’ve blogged about before. HNN this week is featuring a great set of responses and reflections on the Scopes Trial and the issue of the tortured discussion of evolution in public discourse. No other scientific “theory,” even those which would appear to pose major challenges to certain genres of biblical interpretation, invokes such passion and furor
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God Didn’t Make Me No Monkey Man: An Evolutionary Biologist and a Humanist Discuss How to Discuss the Scopes Trial at 85
Paul Harvey I’ve been meaning to get back to doing some yoga, something I did in years past, as a supplement to my normal exercise diet of web-surfing, Netflix-watching, fantasy-football-playing, and martini-glass-lifting. Every time I think of doing so, however, the same chilling thought comes to mind: what will Matt Sutton say
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The Soul Destroying Poison of the East; or, Why I’ll Assume the Savasana Posture while Watching Mad Men
Paul Harvey Ted Haggard is back with a new church (as we blogged about here before). To no one’s surprise, it has outgrown its original “barn” and has moved to downtown Colorado Springs for the time being.
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Ted Haggard: He’s Baaack!