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Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…the debate about Left Behind. Among evangelical Christians who like the franchise —which doesn’t include all of them—there are real differences about what the film should be. In this way, Left Behind represents a big question about the persistent problem of the market for faith-and-family films. The past few years have seen attempt after attempt to do what Lalonde wants to do: make quality movies that please evangelicals and also appeal to a wider…

Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…inghouse. The decision to make the telecast of the session public was announced after Ordain Women requested and was denied tickets in September. Although some media outlets referred to the action as a protest, Kelly, an international human rights attorney from Washington, D.C., said it should be more accurately understood as a conversation. “There isn’t a clear way to reach the prophet or the leaders. We can’t simply call them up and ask them to…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…you in hell if you dispute his prescription. Many who question God’s existence are more concerned with His relevance to them than any metaphysics. We can only be free if we remove the shackles of faith, these self-ruining feelings of incompleteness, prudery and debasement, and accept the inevitability of our random lives. I don’t mean to be flippant. This is how it seemed to me, and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t knock me off my feet. Why spend…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…ven if the company offered higher wages to its employees to purchase insurance through the ACA’s exchanges, it would still pay less than offering a plan. Although Chief Justice John Roberts asked whether offering health insurance to its employees was part of Hobby Lobby’s religious commitment, other justices were skeptical. Ginsburg shot back that “provision of health care is not a religious tenet,” and Kagan distinguished between “wanting to be…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…travel vouchers from a friendly customer service agent and apologized for inconveniencing her. “It’s no one’s fault,” I told Emmie. JetBlue wasn’t the kind of thing that we could call a “motherfucker.” It was incapable of the act—too abstract to be blamed or cursed. Recent findings in cognitive psychology indicate that we blame at an individual level, using mental systems adapted for life in small groups. It is psychologically difficult to blame l…

Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

By Stephanie Frank

…t-delinquent comes in the form of his suffering. For Nietzsche, it’s no coincidence that the German words for debt and guilt are the same (Schuld). An unpaid debt is a broken promise, and we punish those who break promises—to extract recompense in the form of the pleasure of making them suffer, and to instill in them the memory that is requisite for the project of civilization. In recent weeks, commentators have remarked on the ‘moralization’ of w…

Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?

By Shaul Magid

When I was a graduate student, a professor once told me “there are no coincidences.” Last week I believed him. In the wake of the Gaza Flotilla disaster (it was a disaster any way you look at it, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine), Israel was engaged in a fight it has not known for some time: international condemnation and a US administration that was tepidly protecting it, albeit without the reflexive muscle it once did in the Bush years. Even the staun…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es violencia, que no te gane la indiferencia” (Discrimination is also violence: indifference won’t win.) Montevideo celebrates September as Diversity Month. Haiti: Police force cancellation of film festival after arson threats Police in Port-au-Prince ordered organizers of what was to be Haiti’s first LGBT film festival to cancel the event after death and arson threats were made by phone and social media. According to Reuter’s Makini Brice, “A sen…

Why So Many American Christians Don’t Understand Protest

By Leah Pannell

…many Christians vilify protests enacted by the bodies of brown people who inconvenience and disrupt their lives, these same Christians are recipients of a message of good news that disrupted an ancient empire, resulting in the death of a brown savior at the hands of the state—a protest that, we believe, culminated not in death, but in the resurrection of God. The heart of the Christian faith is the ultimate act of protest. The person and work of J…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…insurgents, a stunningly beautiful former actress with a charismatic presence but no experience in institutional leadership and not a single worthwhile original sermon to her name. Dana’s narration ends on rather a sour note, as she chronicles the multiple setbacks that the AUUCC suffers almost immediately following the installation of the flashy new minister. The place literally starts to fall apart. One picks up a slight dash of “I told you so”…