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The Question of Evil: Politicians Weigh In

By Mark Gstohl

…e’s no attempt to ground the response in dependence on God or to be self-reflective. Not only is this approach idolatrous — because McCain seems to trust in our own ability to defeat evil — it is also reckless. If we fail as a country to be self-reflective in our attempt to defeat evil, we might engage in evil acts, such as torture, and justify evil such acts. Seems we’ve already done that. It’s no surprise that McCain’s answer would draw applause…

Necessary Sacrifice: Sundance, Mormon Movies, and the Race to Oscar Night

By Kathryn Lofton

…he screen, the muted gaping crowd) is the set of a communal inevitability. Tickets pay producers to slaughter others so we may, if possible, evade (for now) our innocent death. What LDS knows, and Sundance doesn’t, is that there’s no reason to press our nose into human filth. The minute we sat down, we were already at Nixzmary’s deathbed. To attend a screening is to attend a sacrifice. In less celebrated contexts, Milan Kundera mutters: “The broth…

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

By Diane Winston

…ns promise harmony, peace and tranquility. Unfortunately none of that was available on arrival. Coralling and cajoling students, even grownup ones, requires energy and the last bits of mine were drained before I “lost” the group at the Mumbai airport. After the nearly day-long flight, we still had a four-hour bus ride ahead of us. When we finally found each other, boarded the bus and found boxed breakfasts of chicken salad sandwiches, I relaxed a…

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton in September, received 10 Public Health Act tickets for organizing various anti-public health rallies in northern Alberta last year and revived her Twitter account, dormant since 2016, specifically in order to promote anti-public health events she organized and ran. But the story of Jericho is nothing to worry about. It’s only about divine massacre. Walls come crumbling down They know what they’re doing. One particip…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…selected. The previous pontiff, Pope John Paul II, saw the creation of the Vatican’s website in 1994, not long after the Internet became available for popular use. The Internet Explorer browser was launched in 1995, and the Palm Pilot first appeared in 1996. When John Paul first took office, SMS (texting) and Google were still several years in the future. Use of the Internet in the early nineties for most people consisted largely of acquiring plan…

Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground

By E. David Morgen

…mporary descendents of their more explicitly religious forebears. Like revivals and camp meetings from the nineteenth century forward, the festivals allow participants to suspend their everyday lives to engage in something that is both theatrical and ecstatic. Events like Burning Man, an eight-day annual event in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, have attracted particular scholarly attention for the way that they allow participants to create improm…

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

By Sophie Gherardi

…f journalists. Here, below, is a piece from two years ago, a bittersweet reflection from a fellow French journalist on the occasion of a previous controversy. _____________ When you are on a pile of powder, you don’t scratch a match and call it liberty. —Daniel Cohn-Bendit, icon of the ’68 student movement, 9/21/12 Why on earth is an orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned Muslim man in a wheelchair on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French baby-boomers’…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…In this framing, history, like every other aspect of culture, becomes a conflict between two diametrically opposing worldviews, based in mutually exclusive presuppositions. As Rushdoony writes, history always begins with an act of faith. For him there’s two diametrically opposed ways of looking at it. One is “the faith that God has nothing to do with history. By (which) history is declared to be man’s area of operation exclusive of any divine de…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…evelopers of approved projects the sales tax paid by visitors on admission tickets, food, gift sales and lodging costs. Developers have 10 years to reach the 25 percent threshold. Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with r…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…e idiom of the outsider, the loser, or the feared. In both the mystical elevation of the senses and the base sensuality of being, we are invited to enter a world that exists beyond the status-quo, a world at once captivating and sinister. Poetry dismantles the strictures of conventions. The name of the band—at once grateful and dead— is such a combination of words. A metaphor brings new insights when two seemingly paradoxical categories are brough…