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Media Overplays Rihanna Concert Coverup

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…for a concert in Malaysia. Aside from all the eye-rolling “bad girl being good” comments that the media is putting forth about her appearance, you’d think that this was the biggest thing to happen to either Rihanna or Malaysia by the way the media presents the issue. Outlets get themselves in a tizzy whenever a performer is asked to cover up. It always seems to be in Muslim countries that this happens, and it’s always gets tied to Islam: “How odd…

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

By Diane Winston

…eral heaven that catered to my worst possible self. That’s almost true. I took my journalism class to India this past spring to cover the role of religion in the recent election. I’d done similar trips before to Israel and Ireland, but this time I wanted the students to have more than a fleeting encounter with the religion they were covering. During a previous trip to India, the class had visited one of Delhi’s Hanuman temples, where the synesthet…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…ternational poverty relief icon, (aging) Gen-X sex symbol, and all-around good guy. As the openers left the stage, a scrolling montage of poetry slowly came into focus. While those around me were ordering another $12 beer and taking selfies with their new merchandise, the depth and radicality of this real-life “U2charist” struck me. Maybe this dude was the real deal. While waiting for the founder of the ONE anti-poverty campaign, the author of the…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…nd how to reimagine divine justice. As I sat in a frigid hotel conference room in Bridgeton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis that represents the outer edge of the city’s white flight, I took stock of the 30-odd people surrounding me. An interesting mix, some of the attendees were longtime activists of color, some seemed to be defectors from the traditional black church, some were white Christian millennials eager to dive into social movements and…

McChurch Picks Up Progressive Endorsements

By Katie Meier

…tian thinking. The idea this time? Reinvent everything. His new audio CD, book, and tour share the collective mandate that “Everything Must Change.” To follow the McLaren reinvention machine one has to be speedy. In 2006 he called for a Christian with a “generous orthodoxy.” In 2003 he called for the “emergent” Christian. Still earlier in 2001 was the call that defined McLaren as the reinvention pastor. He called for a “new kind” of Christian who…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…terer-turned Catholic whose campaign is underwritten by a Jewish casino tycoon, walked into a Baptist church where the audience had been primed with speeches about how “God intended” marriage to be “between one man and one woman” and how their state was on the verge of being taken over by the “vice” of gambling. But it wasn’t a joke, it was a Newt Gingrich campaign appearance at a Presidential Forum, hosted by the conservative Christian legal grou…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door. I chatted with an AP reporter and he said AP had been trying for weeks to gain media access—but that he was there to see if he could talk his way in. By then a torrent of rain had descended on the Times Union Center and I had no choice but to hang out in front until it stopped. That’s where I learned that the ticket prices had been reduced to $25 and I seriously though…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…n (the Duino Elegies). Rilke, a contemporary of Nietzsche, also wrote The Book of Hours, a description of circadian perception of time as message, based on rhythms of prayer. Like prophets, a poet’s use of language can subvert popular assumptions, reified or dead assumptions. Influenced by Rilke, Hunter convenes American idioms into dense, precise, equivocations. One of Hunter’s most mystical Dead songs is “Attics of my Life”—an expression of apop…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…feature a giant ark based on the biblical account of Noah and the Great Flood. Answers in Genesis is the not-for-profit apologetics organization that built the Creation Museum, a 70,000 square-foot building devoted to the idea that everything in the bible is literally true and that evolution is a lie. As an example of its scientific rigorousness, one of the exhibits argues that dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden were all vegetarian. In addition to N…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…w Barton, and through his admiration, Huckabee, draws closely on R.J. Rushdoony’s theory of history as evidence of God’s plan, rather than the unfolding of human events. Although Barton is frequently lambasted for his historical revisionism about the separation of church and state, this is much bigger than the debate over the founders’ intent. What Barton is talking about—and what Rushdoony talked about—is the meaning and purpose of history. Rushd…