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Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong

By Julie Ingersoll

…anyone—even a full-time academic—can read. Many of them are available free online, as are the daily updates these organizations email their followers. In my work I explore the Reconstructionists’ worldview and trace its dissemination to activists who acknowledge its influence on their views (like Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips) to those who might not even realize the role of Rushdoony’s teachings in their education. To say that Reconst…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…on Kills,” and the church has offered a telling apology on stickers and in online advertisements: “As Christians, we are sorry for being self-righteous judgmental bastards. Revolution NYC: A church for people who have given up on church.” To Bakker, religion is dangerous because of its rules and regulations and lack of emphasis on personal belief. “It’s like going to work,” he told me several years ago. “We need to agree to disagree because right…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…anet Napolitano became Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security. On their website, filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi state that their film was in response to Proposition 187. “We believe that immigration reform is the civil rights struggle of our time. It is a struggle that affects all of us with its impact on the economic, social and cultural fabric of our society.” I wonder if they could have anticipated the hatred and backlash against i…

Even Richard Dawkins is Right Sometimes

By Paul Wallace

For the last several months there has been a flurry of discussion—mostly online, of course—about the impossibility of a literal Adam & Eve (see, e.g., here and here and here). This ruling-out has been accomplished recently by the Human Genome Project, which indicates that anatomically modern humans emerged from primate ancestors about 100,000 years ago, from a population of something like 10,000. In short, science has confirmed what many of us al…

The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!

By Peter Manseau

…part to the unlikely apostle Anthony Bourdain, one local skeleton in Christianity’s closet is stepping into the light. Though his Krampus Carol ended up on the cutting room floor, it’s on the verge of going viral online. My prediction: Krampus will soon take America by storm. Uh-oh. I think that’s him knocking now. As they say in Tittmoning: Fröhliche Weihnachten and may two stout sisters always guard your door….

Another Slender Man Attack?

By Joseph Laycock

…ates in the writings of Alexandra David-Neel and Walter Evans-Wentz, who visited Tibet in the 1920s. As noted by Donald Lopez, these writers were dependent on translators and their ideas often reflect Western Theosophy rather than Tibetan Buddhism. Much like the Jewish story of the golem, tulpas are regarded as dangerous and prone to rebellion. (David-Neel claims she created one in Tibet but had to put it down). Whether one believes in the parano…

Lindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”

By Nathan Lean

…nefarious Egyptian doctor posted “general guidelines for jihad” on several online forums, as if he, of all people, is the authoritative voice for defining such things. Absurdly, for many people on the right, he is, the authoritative voice. Graham and others employ the term precisely in a way that legitimizes that understanding and gives currency to such usage in discourses about Muslims. For them, Zawahiri’s jihad is more correct than the jihad of…

In Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist

By Alana Massey

…reas Dawkins had found both in his chosen field. Rather than having fights online with the rather low-hanging fruit among his detractors, my hope is that the release of An Appetite for Wonder a few months ago, and the subsequent inspiration and awe around scientific discovery that readers have experienced, will bring out more of the Dawkins that so many came to respect and admire before he was made most famous for his atheism. Not because of what…

The Creepy Surveillance of Elf on a Shelf

By Kelly J. Baker

…e elves are ubiquitous. They can be purchased from bookstores, Target, and online retailers. Tutus can create girl elves, and sports jerseys can masculinize the boy elves. Parents move elves around their homes, so that the elf is a different spot every morning. Some parents elaborately stage elves making mischief with marshmallow fights and flour “snow” angels. Facebook photos of Santa’s helpers abound as parents document how scout elves act when…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…roffer a salve of consumption; it forms a multicultural public through its online search platform, one that is so prophetically omniscient that it can anticipate its users’ needs. With the Google ad, we have a new kind of pastoral guide—one who is less concerned about what we buy, and more concerned about how we physically move through the world according to its irresistible—but oh-so-welcome—pull. For example, Google anticipates the granddaughter…