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In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…ic well-being of your fellow citizens? At a time when a disturbingly large number of people believe in the “QAnon” conspiracy; when “pizzagate” inspired a gunman to raid a pizzeria; where “flat-Earthers” have a growing fan-base; or where people ingest Tide Pods; can we really argue that these aren’t as foolish a bit of mass hysteria as dancing oneself to death? Scottish journalist Charles Mackay contends in his 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular…

Reconsidering “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: An Interview with Ethicist Eric Reitan

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n. Even if I hate all of that, I can still love you, the person who is the agent of these forces of evil. It’s essential in trying to make real progress in these polarizing conflicts that we separate the people from the problem. We must find ways to express and show love for the enemy even as they espouse and perpetuate things that we think are not only wrong or evil but deeply damaging to ourselves and people that we love. If anti-LGBT people too…

The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text

By Yazmine Nichols

…Wonder Woman, as in the biblical text, people with little or no power are agents of divine justice: the biblical God chooses and uses people who are on the fringes of empire. The team that Diana and Steve assembles is not aligned with either side of empire. They are not British soldiers—they are outlaws, lowly and dishonorable by society’s standards. In the biblical text, there are numerous examples of similar unlikely heroes: Moses is a genealog…

Kentucky-Fried Christianity: Governor Matt Bevin Wants to Pray Away Violence in Louisville

By Spencer Dew

…ion, rejects any way of seeing the world in which the individual is not an agent of free choice—a conception of the Christian soul that fits with the wider American notion of the citizen as consumer, as Sean McCloud has detailed in his fascinating American Possessions. Bevin’s views are shaped by and shape a particular social position—bluntly, he can believe what he believes more easily because he’s a wealthy white male. If the drama over the pray…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…ching, though, 30, 40, 50 years later. Sometimes the only effective change agent is the one who works individually, or with a small group who are ready to listen. It’s a small, slow, and contingent project. Things didn’t work out with me and the church. My ministry with them ended in large part because the crazy racist grandpa who talked about “the darks” threw an extended temper tantrum over a substantial gift we gave to earthquake relief in Hait…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…ing” the violence so they can intervene and reassert their position as the agent of social order in Burma? Considering the Rohingyas in Rakhine state, they have lived in Burma in Rakhine state for generations, if not for several hundred years. The former military regime’s 1984 law excluded them from among the nation’s 135 recognized ethnicities, denying the Rohingyas citizenship and basic rights. Neighboring Bangladesh, a predominantly Islamic cou…

“Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…attributed to Jesus were really said by Jesus. The Jesus Seminar has had a number of critics, and neither the criticisms nor the responses were always irenic. (Those wanting a play-by-play will enjoy Walter Wink’s essay from the Bulletin for Biblical Research in which he likens the whole ordeal to a boxing match that, as of the 1997 publication date, was far from over.) The intervening years, though, have shown that the Jesus Seminar—and by extens…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…Growing up a black Catholic also meant that I was never one of that great number of the black church either. So when I read Eddie’s article, I had to laugh, because you see, it perpetuates the stereotype even as it says that the black church is dead. Glaude says “the death of the Black Church as we have known it occasions an opportunity to breathe new life into what it means to be black and Christian.” Psst. Eddie. Not every black person is a Chr…

Jesus Died For This?

By Becky Garrison

…a two-book deal. When I began brainstorming book ideas with my editor and agent, we realized that over the past few years, I’ve had a rather unique window into what religion scholar Phyllis Tickle terms the Great Emergence, a period of massive societal upheaval impacting technology, science, politics, religion, and the global culture at large. So we decided that I should chronicle my travels to help others navigate this sea change so that we all…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…Therefore the proper posture is one of surrender. We are also khalifah, or agent, representative and trustee. This is our relationship to Allah’s Jamal attributes or her rubbubiyyah. In this, our proper posture is active engagement in all aspects of life. This engagement should manifest our inner states of surrender (this is for all our actions, not just in worship or ibadah, but also in our mu’amalat). There’s a Sufi image of these two postures,…