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Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…nt in order to explain away how it could possibly resonate. The Rolling Stone review of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over the Sea says, “his lyrics carry the innocent piety of the early Beats, with semireligious visions and a pre-electronic-age feel: medicines, Sunday shoes, holy rattlesnakes and the… king of carrot flowers.” The review conveniently skips over lyrics referring to holy water, miracles, and everlasting life, which defy cate…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…se no one denies that Francis is a change for the better. As Jon O’Brien, head of Catholics for Choice, told The Guardian, Francis isn’t so much “a breath of fresh air as someone who has gone into the Vatican with an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He’s got the church out of a very difficult spot.”…

8: The Mormon Proposition Gets It Right

By Joanna Brooks

…a consistent underestimation of Mormon organizational capacity and discipline. Well-meaning, politically savvy, liberal friends took one look at my wild, puffy eyes during fall 2008 and would say—trying to be comforting—“I know, I know, the evangelicals are at it too” or “don’t worry, there just aren’t that many of you Mormons in California.” Ignorance. It is precisely this kind of insularity and ignorance that a progressive public conversat…

The Best the Largest Progressive Jewish Org Could Come Up With?

By Jay Michaelson

…mporary immigrant communities, and maybe that’s the point. This is a Jewishness everyone can relate to. And it resonates with the anti-religious bent of many on the old Jewish Left as well. It just feels a little shallow. 5000 years of history and culture, and we have to take a metaphor from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about bending the arc of history toward justice? Can you even say “bend the arc” in Hebrew? Or Yiddish? I am a fan of this organi…