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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…s a giant playground for bored middle-class adults. For some “Burners” the festival is a return to the past: to San Francisco’s Summer of Love for hippie wannabees or a primeval fire-sacrifice for neo-tribalists. Other Burners see Burning Man as the harbinger of a technology brightened future of wind-powered vehicles and personal robots. For many of the denizens of Burning Man’s Black Rock City, the festival is simply an occasion to don outrageous…

Whom Will She Wreck?: The Real Sarah Palin Question

By Anthea Butler

…orters at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale, the former governor of Alaska mingled freely and listened to an impassioned speech about her fitness to run for president of the United States. Though greeted with the chant Run, Sarah, Run! she remained mum, signing books and Bibles, shaking hands and taking pictures, openly enjoying the chance to be close to her fans. Palin may do many things poorly, but she is a great retail politician who kno…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…uld have blinded her attacker. The LDS has built a replica of biblical Jerusalem in rural Utah as a set for a series of educational films about the life of Jesus. Utah State University is conducting a study on the experiences of gay Mormons. Also, the Mormon Defense League has been launched to combat anti-Mormonism in the media. In case you need them, here are some tips on Ramadan etiquette. The Crystal Cathedral is trying to raise money to cover…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…und the world.” It may be too late, however, to downplay the effects of CT’s investigation as the fallout appears to be impacting the news that brought the issue to light in the first place. A recent article in the Tennessean notes that the potential sale of LifeWay’s Glorieta Conference Center to Olivet University may fall through in the wake of the scandal. “The theology is no longer an issue,” Bill Wagner, Olivet’s president explained, “The So…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…more bassinets. In fact, when we reported on the house in 2006, it was for sale: a $3 million Tudor mansion being advertised as an ideal embassy location in one the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, home to a host of foreign military commissions and attachés. Several houses down from the now-empty “center for babies,” at the Chevy Chase Baptist Church, an administrator told us that the organization had relocated to DC proper. Glancing at…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…e in either house of the United States Congress.” George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and who originally wrote the piece for a publication called “Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good,” is flummoxed by the fact that “there are Catholics and evangelicals—even self-identified pro-life Catholics and evangelicals—who aggres…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…form of activism.” The company donates an unspecified percentage of every sale to provide food for those living in poverty. This is generous, but it does not quite qualify as “activism,” since there does not appear to be any effort to actually transform the systems (ideological, behavioral or political) that produce poverty and hunger. Spiritual consumers can feel like good people by buying the brand’s products without actually doing anything to…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e anti-democratic path the GOP has embarked on so much as an ear-splitting alarm with flashing red lights. It should have cast the spotlight on the ideology and theology that his politics are led by—and yet, with a few notable exceptions, many large media outlets failed to accurately contextualize Johnson’s shocking past statements that continued to make headlines (despite his team’s frenzied efforts to scrub his digital footprint) with the little…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…ngels borrow extensively from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Be…

Katie Britt Wants You to Be Afraid — It’s the Fuel That Feeds Conservative Power

By Daniel Schultz

Last week, Katie Britt, one of Alabama’s two Christian nationalist senators, provided a now-notorious rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. If nothing else it was compelling television (and it even inspired a widely shared Saturday Night Live parody featuring Scarlett Johansson). Speaking from her family’s luxurious-but-barren kitchen, and carefully staged as “America’s mom,” the Republican senator wasted no time diving in…