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5 Reasons That Cartoons Are the 21st Century’s Great Metaphysical Playground

By Ilana E. Strauss

…hishi, which is set in a world where a man named Ginko solves Shinto-esque spirit-related problems So what makes the medium so ideally suited to metaphysical musing? I can think of at least five reasons: 1. There are no physical limitations. You can make cartoon characters grow, shrink, turn into things, toss around the Sun like a football—whatever you want. Any thought experiment that can be visualized can be animated. For instance, in one episod…

Satanic or Systemic? Promise Keepers Are Back and Looking to End Racism Via ‘Trickle-Down Racial Reconciliation’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…rough worship, prayer and obedience to God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit. Promise #2 Brotherhood: A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises. Promise #3 Integrity: A Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity. Promise #4 Family: A Promise Keeper is committed to building strong marriages an…

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

By Joanna Brooks

…Church’s global proselytizing missions—an advance that follows a surge in numbers of women missionaries. Some observers believe that the changes are part of a concerted LDS Church effort to bolster its rates of retention among younger women. Increased attention to the theology of gender and equality is also evident, both among rank-and-file Mormons and on the part of leaders. Last month, advocates of women’s ordination to the Mormon priesthood—a…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…tors by noting that White evangelical Protestants turned out in far higher numbers for the former president. So perhaps the matter of ELCA support for Trump is simply a matter of perspective. On the other hand, the ELCA vote for Trump was substantially higher than that of Muslims, Jews, or the religiously unaffiliated. Likewise, 32% of ELCA members describe themselves as “conservative,” which is 20 percentage points lower than among Missouri Synod…

‘Faith’ in the Political Process

By Ira Chernus

…ical, though they thought it important to put that question to GOP voters. Numbers I’ve seen suggest that between a quarter and a third of evangelicals may vote Democratic, and given the new political flexibility we are seeing in some evangelical circles, that number is likely to go up. And a significant portion of those evangelical Dem voters are African American. That’s just one reason that Democratic as well as Republican candidates have been a…

Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…lains the “threat” he sees in homosexuality, by reading what he said was an 1814 legal work: “If we reflect on the dreadful consequences of sodomy to a state and the extent to which this abominable vice can be secretly carried on and spread with which this can be spread we cannot, on the basis of sound public policy consider any punishment as too severe…” Barton is not advocating stoning either, but using an old document to endorse the idea that n…

How a Group of Catholic Pacifists Took on the Nuclear State

By Eric C. Miller

…in many cases, served prison sentences. Plowshares activism was launched in 1980 by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, the duo of brother-priests previously known for their opposition to the Vietnam War. A select group of radical clergy and dedicated laypeople, the Plowshares have challenged the national security apparatus wielding little more than wire-cutters, hammers, prayers, and bottles of their own blood. Plowshares: Protest, Performance, and Relig…

A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…that number seems staggeringly high. A full third? Once you delve into the numbers, though, 34% doesn’t seem quite so high. Really, Pew has asked an excellent question—a question that reveals the full tangle of ambiguities and inconsistencies that surround the topic of Jewish identity. First, some background: when the researchers at Pew set out to conduct this survey, they quickly ran into a problem that’s been under discussion for at least two th…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…es increasingly mirror the corruption of the corporate world, with growing numbers of senior administrators pulling down fat salaries while academic proletarians actually do the undergraduate teaching in humanities departments? Did it occur to them that there might be a problem with the way even some elite colleges now show their contempt for humanities instruction by relegating it to MOOCs? Or with the way students are effectively forced to take…

Does the President Need Churching?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y rates climb during their administrations (the poverty rate hit a whopping 15.2 percent in 1983 under Reagan), proving that “the least of these” were the least on their minds as they brought profits to the captains of industry and made the gap between rich and poor into a yawning chasm. Obama made a big show out of consulting pastors from diverse backgrounds like Rick Warren and Bishop Gene Robinson early in his tenure. These sorts of public disp…