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Satan May Provide a Comforting Story in Times of Crisis, But it Comes With a Price

By Reyhan Durmaz

…ation, and the feeling of guilt on the shoulders of the believer who might look up another biblical verse to make meaning out of their self-inflicted isolation. Reno’s initial attempt to blame New York’s “demonic vibe” on those who satanically place life over “dignity and beauty” (that is, on those who choose to stay at home and not contribute to the economy) might be discredited as a familiar attempt on the part of the bourgeoisie to shame the pr…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…nspiration from our own culture. Caprica by contrast creates a world which looks and feels very much like our present society. Did anyone notice the battered microwave oven in the Adama kitchen which looks, if anything, out of date even today? They have stripped away the science fiction trappings as much as possible to give this story greater immediacy. The producers have talked about appealing to folks who don’t normally like sci-fi. But what tha…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…nching words of Jake, Avatar’s narrator and male lead, echo in your ears: “Look at the world we come from. There is no green there. They killed their Mother, and they’re going to do the same thing here.” In that instant, you realize that something is horribly wrong with everything. Epiphany and counter-epiphany collide in your mind: the film has inspired you to believe that somewhere in your spirit you, like the Na’vi, have a “port” that is intend…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…for their complicity. Doing so would require them to take an uncomfortable look at their own theology. What is it that makes the leadership of an elite publication like The Atlantic see value in something like Moore’s new piece? Do its editors still, nearly eight years after the 2016 election, believe that America’s right-wing, mostly White evangelicals and similar authoritarian Christians are merely “misguided” souls who can be brought back to th…

Focus on the Family Pushing Abortion Reduction

By Sarah Posner

…ddle look like? That’s what we’re trying to figure out. What does that mix look like? As I noted last week, even while Focus on the Family tries to show a softer, gentler side, it’s still battling the old, divisive culture wars. But by also making a clear effort to decrease the daylight between itself and evangelicals who played nice with Democrats in 2008, it looks like Focus is trying to nudge them to abandon new alliances in favor of old ones….

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…ind us that if we want to understand white evangelical politics, we should look first at white evangelical institutions and the practices and discourses that thrive in those places. In other words, if we want to understand the fruit, look to the roots. The popular story of partisan politics debasing white evangelicalism not only fails to study the roots, it absolves the movement of its deepest failures. White evangelicals who are uneasy about the…

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…he time out of a busy day to appropriately placate. Things certainly don’t look good for the Santa familiar to most of us, the jolly old chap who dresses like Pope Benedict the XVI. Much of what we know about him was assembled from scattered mythology in “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the divinity school professor Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem, which appeared alongside Thomas Nast’s illustrations year after year in 19th-century editions o…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…through those materials. I was doing a deep dive into the bills and would look at who’s writing the model bills—it’s the same handful of players which includes prominent federal and state, and behind-the-scenes think tanks. The think tanks platforming the fellows who are writing the reports that criticize DEI and CRT—these are the same handful of groups that kept appearing over and over again. Think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Manh…

In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One
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By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ll it out: 1. Human bodies were not designed by God to run marathons. Just look at all the health problems that come from running marathons: knee problems, plantar fasciitis, collapsed arches. The claim that it’s somehow about health is clearly a lie. 2. It’s hard to talk while you’re running. We all know communication is vitally important for a healthy marriage. 3. There’s a heavy dose of misogyny inherent in marathon-running. The female bosom pr…

New Report: White Evangelicals are America’s Most Anti-Trans Demographic, But Encouraging Data Overall

By Chrissy Stroop

…people, up from 54% in 2019 and 51% in 2015.” While the overall prospects look good for queer equality, at least with respect to public opinion, the news for trans people is not as good. Since 2018, support for trans equality in key areas such as bathroom access and school sports participation has actually decreased across a range of demographics, though much more sharply on the Right than on the Left. For example, 73% of Democrats supported allo…