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Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…ero. In monasteries and convents and among the ranks of shamans, sages and spiritual warriors, gay men and women are disproportionately represented not only because those social locations have traditionally existed outside of hetero-normative institutions but also because undertaking the hero’s quest is their metabiological function. To put the matter differently: The birthing of new forms of culture at key junctures in human history is an express…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…tions of the real crucifixion—especially the Gnostic forms that imply the “spirit” of wisdom left Jesus as he hung limply on the cross. In this view, the body of Jesus was a mere virtual or illusory avatar—one that had once hosted an entity that in fact cannot experience pain and certainly cannot die “in-world.” This case suggests, albeit indirectly, that the ability to immerse deeply in an avatar depends on the extent that one’s religious worldvi…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…nections and theological applications.” Detweiler, co-director of the Reel Spirituality Institute and associate professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, “uses the IMDb, the wildly popular Internet Movie Database, to select today’s most influential contemporary films. Into the Dark dissects the theology of everyday life, exploring the work of the Spirit of God in creation and redemption to discuss “general revelation” throu…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…town girl. And she grew up in a small town church, one with a fondness for spiritual war and a wariness of cosmopolitanism. “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Palin didn’t put that in her speech, a professional speechwriter did. But in her mouth, the fever that filled all of Pegler’s words becomes the spirit, an imaginary municipality, Smalltown, U.S.A., becomes a site of rhetorical pilgrimage, an inv…

A Palin Pastor Primer

By Esther Kaplan

…rusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment—you can’t miss it.” Wasilla Bible Church is now promoting a September 13 Focus on the Family event called Love Won Out, a workshop on how to cure homosexuality through prayer [see pdf]. From 2006 on: Juneau Christian Center, Pastor Mike Rose Once Palin was elected governor, she affiliated with a third church, where she attends services while in t…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…nces of genuine satyagraha among the Jews, instances showing a strength of spirit in which there was no question of bartering their rights or of being bowed down, and where neither force nor cunning was used to escape the consequences of their behavior. Such actions, however, exerted apparently not the slightest influence on their opponents. All honor indeed to those who displayed such strength of soul! But I cannot recognize herein a watchword fo…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…a mode of thought which sees alleged physical and behavioral pathology as spiritually based: “What was of concern to racists was… a degenerate spirit that was dangerous for society, and it was a moral degeneracy that wasn’t visible.” The core of Heschel’s critique is that racists assert that demonized groups have different, diseased spirits or souls. Pastor John Hagee has ingratiated himself to some Jews and made a career of claiming that Jews oc…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…e, whose support he sought and whom he publicly thanked last year for his “spiritual guidance to politicians like me.” Finally, the outrages of Hagee pushed the McCain campaign one step over the line, leading to the formal break. But one interesting piece of this story has received too little comment: Hagee’s widely documented anti-Catholic bias did not move McCain to break with him. Only when Hagee sermons surfaced that offended Jews did McCain m…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…ion period. What is clear about Hebraic Christianity, however, is that it awaits the Second Coming, when all the Jews will realize Jesus is the Messiah they’ve been waiting for. Amazingly, the Alecs, who beam their broadcasts around the world from Jerusalem, are without apology using Israel’s 60th anniversary as a celebration of the power of belief in Jesus to perform miracles in your life. While 1,700 followers joined the Alecs in Jerusalem recen…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…began to set, hundreds of Tibetans gathered for prayers and speeches in a sea of traditional dress and the yellow of Tibetan flags. Majora Carter, one of two American torchbearers to flash a Tibetan flag with the Torch drew loud applause with her promise: “The spirit that was in it is going to China!” For some, the day’s events were satisfying. “We wanted to chase them away,” said Thuptan Donyo, leader of a San Jose Tibetan Buddhist center, referr…