In the Daily Beast, Matt Yglesias argues that by vilifying dovish, left-leaning Jews, the conservative Jewish establishment risks alienating broad swathes of diaspora Jewry
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A tradition of murder
by Charles GelmanIn the London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose reviews a trio of of new volumes on the subject of honor killing.
“Religion, Morality and Youth” on NPR
by Charles GelmanRight now on NPR, Tom Ashbrook is speaking with Christian Smith, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Notre Dame, and Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, about the moral and religious sources available to, and taken up by, today's youth.
Beyond faith versus reason
by Nicole GreenfieldAt Newsweek, Lisa Miller reviews Collision, a new film featuring a series of debates between Christopher Hitchens and Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson, and calls for a reframing of the discussion about religious faith.
Prophecy and public reason
by Charles GelmanOver at Religion Dispatches, Anthony Petro looks back on last week's "Rethinking Secularism" forum, featuring Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West.
Reimbursements for spiritual care?
by Ruth BraunsteinAt The Seeker, Manya Brachear and several guest columnists address the question of whether universal health care should cover spiritual care.
Karen Armstrong’s perpetual unknowing
by Nathan SchneiderIn the New York Times, Ross Douthat reviews Karen Armstrong's latest book, The Case for God.
Waldman moves from Beliefnet to the FCC
by Nathan SchneiderSteven Waldman, the founding editor of Beliefnet, is leaving the religion website to take a job at the FCC as a special adviser on the future of media. Brad A. Greenberg of GetReligion thinks this might have important implications.
Cox, Gordon, and West on the return of God
by Nathan SchneiderAt Brown University's Open Source, listen to a podcast conversation between Princeton University professor Cornel West, Catholic novelist Mary Gordon, and Harvard theologian Harvey Cox about the future of religion in the modern world.
Audio: The power of religion in the public sphere
by Charles GelmanFour of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together on Thursday, October 22 in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss “Rethinking Secularism.” In an electrifying symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West gave powerful accounts of religion in the public sphere. The Immanent Frame is now posting the full audio of each talk. (Click here to join an open thread conversation about this event.)