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RD contributor Daniel Schultz recently published his first book: Changing the Script, based in large part on the thought of Old Testament scholar and theologian, Walter Brueggeman. To mark the book release, we sent Pastor Dan to interview Brueggemann at his home in Cincinnati.

Last week it was discovered that several powerful republicans at the heart of two sex scandals—Sens. John Ensign and Tom Coburn and Gov. Mark Sanford, among others—are members of The Family, reputed to be an “aggressively anti-democratic” Christian movement quietly steering us toward a “theocentric” state. Three scholars discuss The Family with the author. Sparks fly.

Religion and religious practices have a context.

A visit to a Jacksonville tea party meeting.

The problem is that the black church is obsessed with the suppression of sexuality.

Everyone is in agreement that desecration is a bad thing. Across cultures and throughout time, most any human being would say that dousing a dead person’s tomb with millions of gallons of crude oil is wrong. We should take advantage of this rare instance of human unanimity, and use the spiritual appeal of honoring the dead to help frame political arguments about ecological preservation and restoration.

Only this time it’s the Bible and the Heretics include Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Rick Warren.