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Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…y and so we have Halloween. The Spanish Conquistadors in sixteenth-century Mexico found that they could conflate their holidays with Aztec observances for Mictecacihuatl, goddess of the underworld, and so we have Dia de los Muertos. In autumn the days get shorter and life begins to die and decompose, the leaves we crunch underfoot are the detritus of the trees that bloomed only a few months before. It certainly feels as if that gossamer veil betwe…

Goat Head Found in Brooklyn. Who Cares?

By Joseph Laycock

…. In 2011, a goat head turned up on the porch of a fraternity house in New Mexico. Unlike countless other fraternity pranks, this one drew police investigation and made national news. And last year, a goat head was delivered to Wrigley Field—either to intimidate Tom Rickets, owner of the Chicago Cubs, or to lift a curse. (According to one story, the Cubs were cursed in 1945 by a man who wasn’t allowed to bring his goat into the ballpark.) Much of…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…lmost 50,000 members in Missouri alone in that time, another 45,000 in New Mexico, and Florida, 12,000 in Washington D.C. Reading through the data, the conclusion seems inescapable: over the last half of the 20th century, the Southern Baptists enjoyed remarkable success in expanding out of their traditional turf. But in the early part of this century, that momentum stalled, and now they’ve started to give ground back. Were it not for the growth in…

A Former Christian Coalition Activist Tells All

By Sarah Posner

…at sounded very exotic.” Nearly twenty years later, White found herself in Mexico, the wife of a young man she met at church soon after she enrolled at Baylor University, where the two would work as missionaries for a controversial charismatic group, since disbanded, the Maranatha Christian Church. When the couple returned to Texas twelve years later with their two children, they arrived during the heyday of the Christian Coalition takeover of the…

Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

…a primitive radio god who faked her own kidnapping to cover up a tryst in Mexico. Given this history, the absence of religious landmarks is striking. It would have been easy enough to paste symbols of Los Angeles’s spiritual history into Her, shot mostly in Shanghai—but L.A. serves as more than a backdrop. It is a physical manifestation of a spiritual problem plaguing most of the human characters in the film, and Theodore most acutely. This absen…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…very busy—too busy—but then I also retreat to this desert solitude in New Mexico. This has been a very hard time for me. It is so strange to be so hated by so many church leaders. However, I just had an incredible few weeks in South Africa. I met a lot of great people, saw a lot, and learned a lot about the thousands who gave their lives to struggle against apartheid. I spent a great day with Archbishop Tutu, who is one of my heroes and my friend…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…our political submissiveness, not because of the product cycle. China and Mexico have taken us to the cleaners. Trump is no market liberal: The free market is anything but. So he would naturally use the state’s power to countermand the property rights of corporations who export their jobs and plants abroad. He attributes his own market failures to his lack of power. He has only run one public company, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts in Atlantic C…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

By Jo Piazza

…that one of our designers found this incredible picture of a young nun in Mexico up on the top of this mountain that we literally all sighed together and said: “That’s the one!” Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I am a huge fan of Nick Kristof’s Half the Sky and I thought about the book a lot while I was writing. In the same way that he took women’s stories from around the world and used them to narrate a specifi…