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Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…ut for smut” campaign. In related news, this weekend isn’t just Super Bowl Sunday, it’s also Porn Sunday. The XXXChurch is using videos featuring NFL quarterbacks to get churches talking about porn addictions. Fox Sports rejected another religiously-themed Super Bowl ad. This time they said no to an ad featuring John 3:16. In Fox’s defense, there was no Rainbow Man in the commercial, which we all know is the proper context for John 3:16 at a footb…

Egyptians Queue Up to Say: On February 4, 2011, I was in Tahrir Square

By H.A. Hellyer

…ng damage to this country. One young man I spoke to who is in his last year of engineering at university, and from a well-to-do family in a wealthy district of Cairo, told me this evening, “After all this, I’m certain—I’m going to finish university, do my military service, and leave. I have to look after my family.” Its clear that behind closed doors, the wheels of politics are spinning, and that the solution to this upheaval is being debated and…

God-Haters Can Be Great Company

By Bernard Schweizer

…portant point—that very point has not gotten across. Jake Meador’s review, online at Christianity Today, is a case in point. I truly appreciate the favorable things he has to say like “Schweizer has written an engrossing history.” At the same time, I feel that I need to set the record straight regarding the main quibble that he has with my book. In Hating God I go to some lengths to explain why atheists are not, and in fact cannot be, haters of Go…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…own life became his master work. Father Matthew turned to the craft of the Sunday homily, many of which he filmed and posted online in later life. His way of celebrating the Eucharist was just that, a ritual celebration, a theatrical event whose artistic gravity was never far from his mind. These are among his most moving weekly artistic creations. But Father Matthew Kelty also turned to the written word. His personal correspondence has the qualit…

The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?

By Robert M. Geraci

…or perhaps because they are, themselves, true believers, major news media online and in print have rushed to interview Kurzweil and profile his ideas over the past few years. Most recently, Time magazine has labeled the Singularity a “serious hypothesis…an idea that rewards sober, careful evaluation.” Where once Kurzweil was listed among the fringe and suspected of being just a bit off-balance, in the past few years (especially since founding his…

Zen and the Art of the Sex Scandal

By Gary Gach

…n outside help. Much of the story is being documented at a self-appointed, online “Shimano Archive” to a degree of granularity of detail that is, in and of itself, rather remarkable. The situation, on the face of it, provides a point of departure for contemplation. In it, we can see aspects of ourselves, and Buddhism relation to other traditions; as well as key dynamic elements within Buddhism. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, another seminal founder of Zen…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…ng his favorite historian. On the same day, Barton aired an episode of his online radio show called “Why History Matters,” offering a window into how Barton, and through his admiration, Huckabee, draws closely on R.J. Rushdoony’s theory of history as evidence of God’s plan, rather than the unfolding of human events. Although Barton is frequently lambasted for his historical revisionism about the separation of church and state, this is much bigger…

Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism

By Bron Taylor

…d by Ecuador’s constitution for this remarkable document, which I have put online as recent evidence of the emergence of a civil earth religion that is gaining traction globally.) The remarkable language in the Ecuadorian constitution and in Boliva’s new Mother Earth law did not, however, result from indigenous Andean spirituality alone. They were also influenced by a generation of thinking and debate around the world about human responsibilities…

The Scandal of the Cross

By Jeremy Biles

…its representation. This past Palm Sunday, a group of young men masked by sunglasses wreaked havoc at an art exhibition entitled “I Believe in Miracles,” which comprises work collected by art dealer Yvon Lambert, in whose Avignon gallery the show is on display. The vandals mainly targeted Immersion (Piss Christ), a now-iconic 1987 Cibachrome photograph by artist and former Catholic Andres Serrano depicting a plastic crucifix immersed in the artis…

Pete “Spare Tire” DeGraaf’s Operation Rescue Ties

By Sarah Posner

…plan ahead, don’t we, in life?” adding, “I have spare tire on my car.” His online biography at Shepherds Staff Ministries, where DeGraaf, an Air Force Academy graduate and an ordained pastor, is a “biblical” financial advisor, boasts, “During the Summer of Mercy he served as Executive Director for Hope for the Heartland.” The Summer of Mercy was a six-week abortion clinic blockade, organized by the fringe anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, that…