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Jason A. Kerr's blog post was featuredOf Mormons, Baptists, and Liberty of Conscience
On 7 October, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, was speaking to reporters outside the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, where he had just introduced Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. Taking aim at Perry’s rival for the nomination, Mitt Romney, Jeffress said that Romney, a…See More
Jason A. Kerr posted a blog postOf Mormons, Baptists, and Liberty of Conscience
On 7 October, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, was speaking to reporters outside the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, where he had just introduced Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. Taking aim at Perry’s rival for the nomination, Mitt Romney, Jeffress said that Romney, a…See More
Jason A. Kerr's blog post was featuredOf 9/11 and Learning to Love the Other
For me, 9/11 began with religion: after my clock radio alarm gave me the first hint that something had gone terribly wrong, I knelt by my bed to pray that God would watch over the affected people. Then I went and turned on the TV just in time to see the first tower fall.Religion remained a persistent element of my day. Like many people, I spent much of 9/11 watching television news. This I did in the company of many of my co-religionists at the LDS Institute of Religion at Arizona State…See More
Jason A. Kerr posted a blog postOf 9/11 and Learning to Love the Other
For me, 9/11 began with religion: after my clock radio alarm gave me the first hint that something had gone terribly wrong, I knelt by my bed to pray that God would watch over the affected people. Then I went and turned on the TV just in time to see the first tower fall.Religion remained a persistent element of my day. Like many people, I spent much of 9/11 watching television news. This I did in the company of many of my co-religionists at the LDS Institute of Religion at Arizona State…See More
Jason A. Kerr posted a blog postPsalm 137 and Religious Violence, Part II: Root and Branch
Like Jacob and Esau after the episode of the pottage, the family relationship of the English Church had gone quite sour by 1640, and this bitterness gave Psalm 137 its potency in the church-government debates. During the 1630s Archbishop Laud and a group of like-minded divines had advanced a “High Church” program of reform that looked a little too Roman Catholic for the tastes of some. In 1637, three vociferous opponents of the Laudian reform, John Bastwick, Henry Burton, and William Prynne,…See More
Jason A. Kerr posted a blog postPsalm 137 and Religious Violence, Part I: “Down with it, down with it, even to the ground”
7 Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem: how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.8 O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery: yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast served us.9 Blessed shall hee be that taketh thy children: and throweth them against the stones. [1]The sense of glee in the violent conclusion of Psalm 137 is remarkable: the speaker pronounces him “blessed” (the Hebrew word is ‘esher, which means…See More
Jason A. Kerr posted a blog postMuslim-Americans and “We the People”
The recent events in Egypt produced many stirring images, among them those of Muslims joining hands so that Coptic Christians could hold Christmas mass unmolested in the wake of a…See More
Jason A. Kerr's blog post was featuredBullying: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
In Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel recounts a conversation he had with a Catholic leader who was concerned about the consequences that participation in the Interfaith Youth Core might have for the young people under his care. The leader feared that interfaith dialogue among young people might devolve into an argument about who’s going to heaven and who’s not.Patel showed great wisdom in his response: he…See More
Jason A. Kerr posted a blog postBullying: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
In Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel recounts a conversation he had with a Catholic leader who was concerned about the consequences that participation in the Interfaith Youth Core might have for the young people under his care. The leader feared that interfaith dialogue among young people might devolve into an argument about who’s going to heaven and who’s not.Patel showed great wisdom in his response: he…See More
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Of Mormons, Baptists, and Liberty of Conscience
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 4:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
On 7 October, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, was speaking to reporters outside the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, where he had just introduced Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. Taking aim at Perry’s rival for the nomination, Mitt Romney, Jeffress said that Romney,…
Continue Of 9/11 and Learning to Love the Other
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 6:01am 0 Comments 0 Likes
For me, 9/11 began with religion: after my clock radio alarm gave me the first hint that something had gone terribly wrong, I knelt by my bed to pray that God would watch over the affected people. Then I went and turned on the TV just in time to see the first tower fall.
Religion remained a persistent element of my day. Like many people, I spent much of 9/11 watching television news. This I did in the company of many of my co-religionists at the LDS Institute of Religion at Arizona…
Continue Psalm 137 and Religious Violence, Part V: Milton’s Allusive Abuse
Posted on April 8, 2011 at 5:02am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Psalm 137 and Religious Violence, Part IV: No Neuters
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
As the cases of Digby and Smectymnuus illustrate, the Israel/Edom metaphor does not readily admit of middle ground. Indeed, in a famous sermon given on the occasion of a Parliamentary fast day on 23 February 1642, Stephen Marshall (the “SM” in Smectymnuus) argued “that all men are blessed or cursed according as they help or help not the church of God”—an idea leading him to conclude that “the Lord acknowledges no Neuters.” [1]
Accordingly, Marshall sets…
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