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Blame Muscular Christianity for Driscoll Fiasco

By Hollis Phelps

…the charges of plagiarism, to his gaming of the New York Times Bestseller List, to his reputation as a hyper-masculine misogynist and homophobe with an authoritarian leadership style. [T]he scheme itself is part of an overall ethos that seeks to proselytize “by every means available.” What’s important, in other words, is that people hear “about Jesus”—however that might happen. Thus it was not surprising when Driscoll announced this past weekend…

SCOTUS’s Incoherent ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ Decision

By Daniel Schultz

…t be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust, whether it be—I mean, we—we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to—to use their religion to hurt others. It’s simply a factual statement followed by an anodyne opinion. I don’t think people should use their religion to hurt others, either. Does that make me a big…

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Avatar and the Myth of Originality

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…and frustration), a bit of Gilligan’s Island, and populated by a character list of Who’s Who in Philosophy: John Locke, Desmond “David” Hume, Rousseau, and George W. Bush’s favorite philosopher, Jesus (as Jack “Shephard”). Or consider the cast of 30 Rock as a reinvention of The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Liz Lemon=Mary Richards; Jack Donaghy=Lou Grant; Pete Hornberger=Murray Slaughter; Tracy Jordan + Jenna Maroney=Ted Baxter. These cultural products a…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…f the mother. Aronofsky continues his quest to audio-visualize Jewish Kabbalistic themes, threaded with some psychoanalysis, poetry, and surrealistic montages. Follow the logic through and it’s a dim view of humanity, and of G-d. 3) Mudbound Rachel Morrison’s cinematography emphasizes the mudbound. Drawing on photos by Dorothea Lange and other WPA photographers, and paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, she visually sacralizes the profane. This is no…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…chance that the bill—a measure to ban suspects on the federal terror watch list from buying guns—was going to become law. But a vote would have forced Republicans to go on record voting for gun rights over protection from terrorism, demonstrating their hypocrisy. In an already-dicey year for GOP incumbents, that would have been a very uncomfortable position. Doesn’t this set a dangerous precedent? It might, although Republicans staged a longer pro…

Has This Anti-Muslim Extremist Reformed… Or Just Gotten Less Extreme?

By Nathan Lean

…g on. He must believe that once he’s no longer with the group, people will listen to him. Heck, they may even buy his “I was once an anti-Muslim extremist” book (which happens to fit well into the growing niche of the “I was once a Muslim extremist” category). Two serious questions remain for Robinson and for Quilliam, which facilitated his departure. First, will Robinson’s message really change? Just because he’s no longer with the EDL and claims…

Affordable Care Act Needs “Fix,” Clergy Say

By Daniel Schultz

…other hand, it might not. I notice two influential groups missing from the list of supporters for the fix: non-denominational evangelicals, whose churches might be self-insured or find other ways to insure their pastors, and the Catholic Church, whose diocesan plans might be large enough not to be affected by the problem. Both groups, it’s worth noting, are heavily set against the ACA. We may yet see the GOP pinned dramatically between religious c…

Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church

By Mary Fulkerson

…munications which occur in excess of what people say and explicit religious language as well. Visit our RDBook page for a complete list of our interviews with authors……

Rand Paul, Religious Skeptic?

By Sarah Posner

…levision network earlier this week, sitting for an interview with televangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, to sell not only his faith in God, but his faith in small government. Paul’s most sincerely held religious belief, no surprise, was in minimizing government. People “think somehow there’s salvation in government,” Paul said, but “there isn’t.” In fact, lack of government oversight has been a salvation, at least a financial one, for the Lambs. As…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Implements and toys, or not? A single partner, or multiple partners? This list could become very long, very fast), debates over the etiology and moral value of same-sex attraction quickly gained prominence in the nineteenth century’s Victorian version of the culture wars. Even Classicists got into the fray. Debates about Sappho took center stage—she was assuredly the most famous poet from the island until the modern period when Lesbian native son…