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Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…lists. This is why I’m not surprised that Wilson’s daughter would write a book like Eve in Exile. It’s also why I have a great mistrust for any production to come out of Moscow, Idaho—because I know how toxic Doug Wilson’s teachings can be. Steeped in Wilson’s harsh patriarchy, my family fell quickly into another ditch when the new fundamentalist kid on the block, Doug Phillips, started selling his gender-typed toys and books in his ministry/comp…

The Gospel of (and for) E.W. Jackson

By Peter Montgomery

…eligious landscape, as RD regulars and readers of Sarah Posner’s excellent book God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the GOP Crusade for Values Voters know. (If you haven’t read Posner’s book, what are you waiting for?) Woodruff reports that Jackson preached to a congregation of about 40, a good reminder to reporters and Virginia residents that just because you claim the title of “bishop,” it doesn’t mean you have millions, or even thousands, of follo…

“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale

By Jay Michaelson

…Dean is ruined, while Sal has gone on to some kind of respectable, middle-class existence, and it is from that perch that Sal at last can tell his tale on that one famous roll of teletype paper. In other words, On the Road the story is here positioned as a work of nostalgia, a cautionary tale about the allure, and dangers, of the wild. Sal has grown up, like Prince Hal into King Henry, and while he looks back with fondness on the adventures of h…

‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…which boasts 10,000-plus students, has an extensive library collection of books by early Latter Rain figures, including George H. Warnock, George R. Hawtin and Bill Hamon. The library also has extensive collections of Christian Reconstructionist works, notably by R.J. Rushdoony and Gary North; as well as a large holding of books by NAR leaders, including C. Peter Wagner, Bill Johnson, Dutch Sheets, Rick Joyner, and Jim Garlow, to name a few. Apos…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…ar II era, a male-controlled culture seeking to represent the white middle class mom as both constrained and utterly capable, virginal, and fertile, and demure yet available, created an enormous amount of social anxiety about gender that these films made fun of. I think a lot of the panic happening right now in the GOP has to do with what they perceive as losing population dominance to the “other” and the desire to spur the creation of the “right”…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…ing Tao philosophers and those who rigorously apply the Tao to life.” This book is the latest of Lin’s Taoism-for-daily-life books, which include such titles as The Tao of Daily Life: The Mysteries of the Orient Revealed. He’s part of a massive industry that, a cynic might say, transforms Eastern wisdom into Western dollars via the alchemical crucible of self-help. The Art of War, the Tao-Te-Ching, and other exotic classics are endlessly repurpose…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ll become addicted to that daily pretending that you’re talking about. The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It’s not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody’s going to say, “Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber is a fucking spiritual giant.” But, my hope is that rather than writing a spiritual memoir that in some way elevates me as a spiritual leader, writing a theological memoir that put…

After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…monk that ends with the words, “kill him”). He also edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, and the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (co-edited with Margo Kitts and myself). The cover of a book that Jerryson and I co-edited on Buddhist Warfare portrayed a young monk holding a handgun [see story image]. When this picture appeared accompanying a review of the book in the London Times Literary Supplement, readers were outraged….

Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…both ways,” begins Hany Zaki, an Egyptian pharmacist who said he read the book and sees it much differently than those who have been outraged. “This is a book and it is someone’s vision of a story. We can either take it or leave it. As a Coptic community we have to be open to critical views of religion, our religion and accept that there are dark things that have occurred in the name of Jesus Christ. This is history,” he adds. Of course, history…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ng’s journals—the man named Adam. The narrator/journaler ends the 500-page book with a line repeated a bit earlier in the film. In response to his life being “no more than one drop in a limitless ocean,” Adam says, “Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?” The mystical thrust of the book and film are summed up in that statement. What becomes interesting is the ways that different media portray such interconnection. With words, but also wit…