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Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic

By Heron Greenesmith

…tor, only to hear a message from her God that she was not living her full truth. All stories of gender identity are valid, as are all journeys, including the stories of people whose gender identities may fluctuate over time, as perhaps Duncan’s has. It is therefore crucial to frame stories in context and with peer-reviewed data so that a listener such as Lynn Meagher can understand that the vast majority of transgender people do not desist, nor do…

Rebooting the Universe: Doctor Who part X, Season Finale

By Gabriel Mckee

…ikely to have really existed, having been concocted from earlier myths and stories (although why anyone would try to pass off a figure based on dying and rising gods as a crucified Jewish Messiah is never adequately explained by those with such views). On the other hand, there are many who assume that Jesus really was in history as he would later be “remembered” by the church not only in its Gospels but in its creeds and its ongoing experience of…

You’re Using It Wrong: Rachel Held Evans Returns to the Bible

By Eric C. Miller

…white evangelicals now use the Bible to justify their marriage to Donald Trump. How should the Bible be used by the Resistance? I didn’t want to write too much about Trump because I knew it would date the book. But I think his election is significant to the story of American religion. One thing I’ve done is to compare his presidency to the reign of Xerxes in the story of Esther. Xerxes was a misogynistic, fragile, pathetic racist who had been ent…

Do Tea Partiers Use Religious Justification For Racial Rhetoric?

By Julie Ingersoll

…uage. This all occurred in a context in which people took these to be the true meanings of these stories. This exercise does more than show us just how wrong “they” were; it pushes us to recognize the degree to which our own readings of texts (whether those texts be the Bible, the Qu’ran, or the Constitution) can never be as certain as they seem. It’s not my point here to debate the “true meanings” of these texts; I guess that’s a task for believe…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…rratology. As I write in the book, race “is less about skin and more about stories—stories about how racial differences came to be in the past and how such racial differences can be overcome in the future” (34). 3. Relatedly, that the Book of Mormon isn’t worth studying. Race and the Making of the Mormon People contains the most sustained analysis of Mormonism’s foundational text of a history of race and religion published to date. Yet my book com…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…neuve (of Arrival fame) applies his characteristic deep sounds, elliptical stories, and internal-spiritual searches externally projected. Ridley Scott’s vivid visuals from the original are replenished by Villeneuve’s evocative audio, bringing us firmly into the mythical-spatial possibilities of a world that prophetically imagines what might happen to us if we don’t take care of the here and now. 9) Wonder Woman Who can remain disenchanted by the…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ive, scholar of American literature. He did not let the class neglect the crucial detail, revealed near the book’s end, that our stalwart narrator has been confined to a sanitorium, and may not be quite the trustworthy reporter he would have us believe him to be. So the book was far more than a manifesto for the mid-teen audience horrified by the overwhelming influence of “phonies” in the adult world. It was a cautionary tale about what seeing thr…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, about the farmers, workers, and clergy of rural Mississippi and the organizing they did far away from the spotlight. These grassroots stories are usually given only cursory attention—if any attention at all—yet they contain vital lessons for all of us. When I set out to write Beyond $15, I resolved that since I was privileged to have a publishing platform, I would put workers, clergy, and grassroots activists where…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…six years of reparative therapy. The process was so damaging he turned to drugs and soon after died from an overdose. I interviewed college students whose inability to change their sexual orientation made them depressed, anxious and suicidal. I thought of their stories as I listened to Vasquez talk about how InterVarsity’s conversion techniques prompted depression, insomnia and the feeling that “nothing that was life-giving before was life-giving…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…ty by hunting on Good Friday. In pursuit of a magnificent stag, he is interrupted and admonished by the stern voice of Christ in the presence of the majestic deer, and witnesses a radiant vision of the crucifixion in the animal’s enormous horns. In repentance for his sins, he renounces his worldly ambitions, is ordained, and subsequently lives a pious life of solitude in the forest where he then has his faith repeatedly tested. Icon of Hubertus (W…