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In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…run amok. McWhorter is far from alone in his dismay at what seem to be the new rules of the road regarding public discourse. People all over the political spectrum have criticized the policing of speech and virtue-signaling. McWhorter will surely find a receptive audience as many find the confusing and sometimes contradictory rules for anti-racism (and other issues related to social justice) a dizzying array of dos and don’ts. McWhorter takes a ra…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…th the presence of the Blessed Mother. In December, Bishop Ricken told the New York Times that the site’s approval is not connected in any way to the diocese’s various crises—but admitted that he does hope that the shrine will be a hopeful light. “People have a hunger for the spiritual, and right here in our backyard was a source to meet that need,” he says. Gather the Children Karen Tipps, full-time caretaker at the shrine, adds: “A lot of people…

The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…nting to Willow] is more powerful than all of them. So I say we change the rule. I say my power, should be our power… from now on every girl in the world who might be a slayer, will be a slayer. Every girl who could have the power, will have the power. Every girl who can stand up, will stand up. Slayers. Every one of us. Make your choice—are you ready to be strong? Buffy used its feminism to explore a whole range of themes and topics, some of whic…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…The story still retains enormous power in some places. This is especially true of the religious Right across the world, but particularly in America where far-Right pastors and theorists of the apocalypse like Tim LaHaye (one of the fathers of the religious right in the US and one of the authors of the popular Left Behind series of religious thrillers) have consistently invoked Sodom and Gomorrah in order to show that homosexuality is likely to cor…

Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson

By Eva Mroczek

…Exile, and scholars think that the practice of creating Targum—the Aramaic word for translation—began soon after, with new versions and additions continuing to appear for centuries. In the synagogue, scriptural readings in Hebrew would be followed by recitation of an Aramaic Targum, a practice that still continues today among Yemenite Jews. But many of the Targums are not straight translations. Instead, they contain changes, omissions, and embelli…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…the Gospel of John, where truthful speech is the organization of the whole world. So untruthful speech would then be undoing the image of God. What’s interesting about Augustine, though, is theologically he takes that position, but when you read his books about lying, he’s constantly having to make exceptions. You know, you can conceal, you can intend differently… Well, it can be hard to know what exactly makes something a lie. These debates about…

Liberal or Literal? James Wood, Terry Eagleton, and the New Atheism

By Nancy Frankenberry

…t critic James Wood’s recent, provocative essay/review of Terry Eagleton’s new book, itself a broadside against the New Atheists, in particular Richard Dawkins. Readers who are scholars of religion were puzzled, too. What exactly are Wood’s own views, and what do they tell us about the way “religion” is regarded by certain public intellectuals? Since we are already riding piggyback here, I will ignore Eagleton’s and Dawkins’ books in order to expo…

The Trouble With Harry (Potter): Religious Conservatives Do Have Something to Fear

By Jay Michaelson

…h objects became regarded as magical sources of power. Like Harry Potter’s world, their true power was concealed from the uninitiated, but was available esoterically to a select few. Such societies were often branded as heretical, other times co-opted by church authorities. The very notion that the world is not one of ordinary objects supervised by a supernatural deity, but rather a world of ordinary and extraordinary objects that doesn’t seem to…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…ated to Mary’s immaculate heart; in the 1970s, Veronica Lueken of Bayside, New York, expressed Mary’s condemnation of abortion and warned that the world would soon be punished with a fiery ball from space. While seers can be men, they have stereotypically been young girls and nuns. Since 1950, however, there have been several prominent seers in North America who, like Ibrahim, have children of their own. Ibrahim is also unusual in that she is Orth…

Ted Haggard’s New Church: Gay-Friendly?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ly “welcomed” us. I hope that no gay or lesbian person makes the mistake of believing that Haggard has changed and is really “welcoming” them to his new church. Meet the new charlatan, just the same as the old charlatan….