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‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…from DC Talk and Newsboys to MxPx, Switchfoot, and Five Iron Frenzy. I got super inspired as a teen to start my own band. I went off to Indiana Wesleyan University for a year, and then after my freshman year of college decided to pursue a record deal. I had heard about Lenny Kravitz playing his music in the lobby of a record label until someone would listen to him, and I think I just felt in me that I would do whatever it took to get a record labe…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…’s love-life, I can confirm that she’s dating a tight, uhh, end—three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce. This is very important news because after colonization and committing war crimes, the US’s favorite pastime is football (or “hand-egg” if you’re reading from anywhere in Europe, Africa, Asia or South America). Kelce is considered “one of the greatest tight ends of all time,” which may or may not be true because that information is from Wiki…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…ter one force of power that wants to see all of us doomed. Urooj: I am not super optimistic about the state’s ability to not go to war with people that I love, here and abroad. In that way, I am not super optimistic, but I am optimistic about the resilience of my people. I am optimistic because we have a long history of resistance and we have created a beautiful space as LGBT Muslims that supports and cares for those who have been rejected by all…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…us. The people I came into contact with while shooting the images were all super friendly and excited about the project when I explained what I was doing. People I know who were raised in the church, but have since turned against it, were totally freaked out by it. They found it creepy. But in terms of actual religious people, I haven’t seen that much reaction yet or had those conversations. Are you religious? I’m Catholic. I don’t have a lot of e…

Catholic Conscience Over a Woman’s Life?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…his bill seem to conflict with EMTALA, do we? I mean, it’s not exactly the Super Genius Challenge Brain Bonus Puzzler, is it? Doesn’t really require Sunday-Times-like attention to detail and mental storage of arcane knowledge to ask the obvious question! Because in fact, the only scenario we need to raise is this one: What if it’s an emergency and the woman needs the abortion or she’ll die? Which is, like, not outside the realm of possibility. Fro…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…studies isn’t well-funded probably has a lot to do with the fact that it’s super-uncomfortable thinking about these sorts of things. I grew up in a fundamentalist evangelical household, where talk of the Rapture and end-times events was kind of frequent. Frankly, I think I suffered a bit psychologically because I took it quite seriously. What did taking it seriously look like for you? I must have been in elementary school when Bill Clinton was ele…

Rick Santorum Figures Out the Feminist Plot to Create “Phony” Abortion Exceptions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…has taken a brave stand. Frankly, I’m tempted to ask you your position on super-duper-extra-long bills, sir, and to ask why you want to confuse the American people with your love of razzle-dazzle legalese. Perhaps we can talk about that another time.) But the point is: All of these things — the frightened families, the individual circumstances that would be impossible to codify in law, the desperately-wanted pregnancy that becomes a living hell,…

Santorum from the Religion Angle

By Sarah Posner

…s liberty: “Religious liberty is now trumped because we have now created a super-right,” he said. “We have a right the Constitution of religious liberty but now the courts have created a super-right that’s above a right that’s actually in the Constitution, and that’s of sexual liberty. And I think that’s a wrong, that’s a destructive element.” This statement, of course, is wrong as a matter of fact, and reflects a bizarre misinterpretation of cons…

Dumbest Interview About Islam of All Time

By Sarah Posner

…at are in some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super market that are shopping, where people die in a store or in a street. There’s a lot of hatred there that’s some place. Now I don’t know if that’s from the Koran. I don’t know if that’s from some place else. But there’s tremendous hatred out there that I’ve never seen anything like it. So, you h…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…r the salvation of freedom in the Civil Rights era. And then there are any number of other mainstream movies that in one fashion or another use the crossover hit, “Oh Happy Day,” what one reader at my blog aptly suggested could be retitled “the only black gospel song Hollywood knows.” For only one of the most recent examples of this phenomenon, see Disney’s Secretariat (2010), in which a montage overlaid with a black gospel choir singing “Oh Happy…