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What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…al with what the old-school rhetoricians (of whom Tertullian was one, ironically) called “counter-factuals.” If your faith is intentionally and even proudly absurd, you don’t need to bother with facts. It is striking to note how far one stream of the Republican Party has moved from even a perfunctory concern with the facts. In Laderman’s view, such religious myths are singular; they constitute the thing everybody has to sign on to in order to be a…

NPR “Ex-Gay” Report Neither “Fair” Nor “Balanced”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…people for “therapies” that can destroy them psychologically, while buying tickets to Toscano’s shows might result in some good belly laughs, but no pressure to convert. What makes this story so shameful, though, is how the true message is completely glossed over in the pursuit of finding out who is “right” and who is “wrong.” Both Wyler and Toscano are Christian men who were given the message early on in their lives that being gay or lesbian was…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ormons the way the railroad and automobile once ended the faith’s geographical and cultural isolation in the American west. At the same time, some analysts suggest, congregational growth is also slowing—dramatically. But the prevailing sense of early 21st century LDS institutional life is that the best way to deal with such anxieties is to push through them, and that the best expression of the faith is the projection of a sense of assurance as pol…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…nation of words. A metaphor brings new insights when two seemingly paradoxical categories are brought together, e.g. rock ‘n’ roll band and environment (ushered in above). At the height of secular modernity, when Catholics were opening the windows of Vatican II and American theologians were delving into what was known as the gospel of Christian Atheism, a California dance band re-named themselves, and the Warlocks became the Grateful Dead. The nam…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…ber 2011, Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters were burned down after it published caricatures of Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo never stopped publishing this type of cartoon, but it gradually lost readers. A new generation leads the magazine and people like me now hardly ever buy it. Times have changed, the humor has changed; the nastiness that used to make us laugh our heads off doesn’t seem as funny these days. Perhaps because reality has turned bloody, for g…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…dized drugs that have saved millions of Africans. I guess he isn’t an American, so I can’t be too hard on him for not understanding that the same government he is praising also ignored the very same problem when it was predominantly the LGBTQ community taking the brunt of that epidemic. Oh yeah, and 45 hasn’t paid income taxes in like 18 years. Is that the reason he wasn’t on the guest list? It is easy to recognize his genius, transforming suburba…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…h Verizon—one of the first troubling commercial agreements between the Vatican and communications companies. For the most part, though, communications technologies at this time seemed a grand and wonderful thing, enabling the sharing of God’s truths with many in an easy and effective way. Interactivity was still relatively limited, and our media mimicked our religion: much of it was still top-down, though change hung in the air. But it’s Benedict…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…ering a mixed and sometimes uneven set of messages, with one Church leader caricaturing feminists as showing “outright contempt” for home and family. The experience of being turned away from the Tabernacle, said Kate Kelly, “really encapsulated how we feel being excluded every single day. It embodied our daily, weekly, yearly struggle of not being equal in the church and being turned away from full experience and engagement in the gospel we love…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…s to cover the class’ costs, a serene blonde volunteer taxied me to an off-campus cash machine. Each time the ATM refused my request, my adrenaline surged. I knew Citibank could be unreliable, but why was a peace-and-love retreat tormenting me? Returning empty-handed, I vented loudly in the crowded check-in area. Eager to calm my rising and very public ire, the registrar allowed us to check in and told me to come back in the morning. But before we…