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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…ssociation. Liberals pointed to Loughner’s opposition to fiat currency and centralized government, while conservatives pointed to Loughner’s 9/11 trutherism and anti-religious ideas. The truth was that Loughner wasn’t liberal or conservative. He was a conspiracist. His central belief was that unseen forces were conspiring to control the world. This was ultimately a religious, not political, idea. A similar case can be made about Christine Weick. A…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…vorless custard” to “like someone wrung out a dishtowel into a glass.” The central ideas behind Soylent are efficiency and optimization. On “The Colbert Report,” Rhinehart stiffly discussed nutritional biochemistry and explained how Soylent “fit[s] the criteria that people desire in their staple foods.” This attitude isn’t too far from the kind of decluttering ethic that Marie Kondo would recognize. To explain why he cut cooking from his life, Rhi…

A New Theopolitical Order: But What About The Women?

By Frances Kissling

…us leader standing next to them wants a religious leader that comes out of central casting: male, preferable with a collar (even if it cuts off oxygen to the brain). No feminist theologians or gay rabbis need apply. No one who is giving the power structure a hard time. Instead we have mutual sanctification of the status quo. Women are shoved out of the bully pulpit just as we began our climb up the steps to the altar. This was driven home again in…

Lessons in Rhetorical Strategy from a DC Bishop

By Mary E. Hunt

…ization for Marriage’s strategy to drive a wedge between LGBTIQ people and African Americans—and to urge Latinos to avoid being assimilated to corrupt “Anglo” values that include respect for same-sex loving families. In the wake of all this, I read a recent letter from a Maryland-area bishop with new attention. Here’s a head’s up to those working on marriage equality. First, the leaders of the opposition to same-sex marriage in Maryland are not na…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…a girl you loved her and felt the faint nausea of eroding conviction? The central doubt in the story belongs to Sister Aloysius. She became a nun after her husband was killed in World War II, and it’s clear that she saw in the Church the stability, the certainty, that his death took from her. After years in her order she’s beginning to see the cracks in the foundation. She’s irritated by the lack of discipline reflected in Father Flynn (and with…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in American popular culture. Armed with a fun-loving and rebellious ethos, rock has had a liberating effect on generations of young people and inspired many of their more significant social movements. Indeed, rock has been so important to American life that its influence has come to rival that of larger and more ancient institutions. One of these, the Church, has responded t…

Flouting SCOTUS, Religious Liberty Advocates “Give The Game Away”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hat essentially asks the court to either recognize or deny the plaintiff’s central identity, the misgendering in Liberty Counsel and NOM’s briefs are crucial. And, as Stern rightly points out, that act lays bare the animus behind NOM and Liberty Counsel’s long-standing opposition to trans equality (emphasis mine): The briefs reject the very validity of Grimm’s identity in a manner that is both offensive and petty. Indeed, these organizations are s…

Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation

By Robert P. Jones

…elicals (81%) also say people of faith should focus on all issues that are central to their values even if it makes them less effective in politics, rather than focusing on one or two issues in order to be more politically effective [PRR 11/2008]. 2. Single-Issue Voting Alleged Departure: Cizik opposed voting for candidates based on single issues, but argued that a candidate’s entire platform and character should be taken into account. Evangelical…

Immigration Reform: A Country Divided, Or a Richer Society?

By Cecilia Menjivar

…nk between civic engagement and religious participation, and highlight the central place that religion and congregating religiously still holds among today’s immigrants. In contrast to Levitt’s focus on religious activities across borders, Kniss and Numrich examine several congregations in one area. They look at similarities and differences in moral authority, moral project, and sectarian inclinations among Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox Chr…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…s should be seen as an ally and not an enemy. A Better Atonement has been promoted as good reading for Lent, when the meaning of the crucifixion is especially on the minds of serious Christians. But it can and should be read at any time by anyone who’s even considering whether “that old-time religion” isn’t quite good enough any more. What I started out writing, churlishly and petulantly, is that I could only surmise that the market for books li…