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Noise in the Hood: Raising the Volume and Losing Our Bodies

By Peter Laarman

…from 1879 onward “may have done more than any other invention to make the world a noisier place.” Keizer also has much of value to say about the use of intrusive sound in creating and sustaining fascism and terrorism and in enabling torturers and torture. He develops a wonderful juxtaposition of prisons as places of extreme noise and parks as places of presumed peace and quiet. His discussion of John Coltrane’s amazing journey toward a new plane…

Evangelical Troll Erick Erickson Tries to Theologize Cancel Culture. Fails.

By Daniel Schultz

…be followed by sanctification before salvation can be completed. In plain English: you have to repent of your sins and change your ways before St. Peter lets you past the Pearly Gates. That’s as true of saying horrible racist crap or doing horrible sexist things as it is of any other sin. So that’s three arguments and ten errors by my count, plus one majorly unsupported assertion. Well, besides that, he got several words right, including “this” a…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…oints, the nineteenth century home to poor Irish, Italians, and Blacks. It runs through Little Italy and Chinatown. It runs only a few blocks from the former Jewish enclaves of the Lower East Side or the Irish one of Hell’s Kitchen. Broadway runs through Black Harlem and Spanish Harlem. All these communities, religions, and ethnicities have their own folk-religions and magic. But their sites are invisible in this Grand Magical Narrative. One final…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…’s Bible, there is no water into wine, no healing the sick, no raising Lazarus from the dead. Jefferson thought that Paul and every other interpreter really missed the point with Jesus. He felt that the authors of the Christian tradition, for “reasons of their own roguery or stupidity,” couldn’t comprehend what Jesus was offering. So as a result they deified him. The Jefferson Bible is a strange book to read if you’re at all familiar with the Gosp…

Our Father, Who Art Our Mother: The (Open) Secret Queer History of God

By Mark Sameth

…ty (a concept to which the philosophers gave the name coincidentia oppositorum, and which today is more often referred to by the term “integral”). Of course, some may deem the dual-gendered God idea almost too convenient for the moment, too “politically correct.” If what I’m saying is true, why, they also may ask, has no one written on this before? In fact, they have. 1540 was the year it was declared, according to one Kabbalistic tradition, not o…

Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine

By Chrissy Stroop

…sistently been one of the Christian Right’s staunchest supporters of both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, may not have been primarily motivated by the possibility of courting culture war controversy when he chose to bring Samaritan’s Purse to New York. But it’s clear that he’s not above exploiting those made vulnerable by the pandemic in order both to win converts and to air his grievances about criticism of his bigotry in a way that s…

What is a “Religious Progressive” Anyway?

By Daniel Schultz

…e!’” O.D.O. barked, nearly upsetting their daily snort of Maker’s Mark and English breakfast tea while they lightly tossed a link from TPMDC at our head: Poll: Majority Of Americans Not Quite Sure What ‘Progressive’ Means. “Define it! Own it! Spare no expense! Send a telegram to the Soviets if you have to!” We briefly considered reminding Our Dear Overlord that the Soviets had been superannuated back when he was still in grade school. But we like…

In Speech to Religious Broadcasters William Barr Warns of Secular Tyranny, Promotes Christian Tyranny

By Chrissy Stroop

…virtue is much more prominent in Continental European thought than in the English-speaking world. But Barr is a smooth gaslighter, and he represents his argument for theocratic authoritarianism as a defense of “liberal democracy.” Barr’s European (and sometimes American) antecedents were often more honest, admitting that they viewed liberal democracy, due to its supposed godlessness and concomitant lack of truth, as a failure that would have to b…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…tion (which even served as inspiration for an 80’s avant-garde rock band, “News From Babel”). That book saw Steiner placing translation at the center of all human expression, where “To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.” After Babel argues that translation is not something which must be done to language occasionally, but indeed that it defines language. All expression, all statement, all communication is at its core t…

Immigration and Anti-Immigration in the Book of Mormon-Belt

By Joanna Brooks

…aying that “Sunday is the most segregated time of the week” holds largely true for Mormonism too. Even though Mormon congregations are organized geographically, Spanish-speaking members and English-speaking members living in the same communities often attend different services. Still, many of the conservative Anglo-Mormons I know here in Southern California work alongside with or provide ecclesiastical and personal support to working-class Latino…