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Cue the Kool-Aid: Watching Jonestown Docs in the ‘Fake News’ Era

By Rebecca Moore

…r are informed, for instance, by labeling on screen or in voice over, the true nature of what they are seeing. Reconstructions must not, however, distort the known facts.” It’s bad enough that we flippantly observe that someone is “drinking the Kool-Aid,” without regard to the origins of the expression in the deaths at Jonestown. But faking the Kool-Aid in re-enactments goes even further, turning religious tragedies into cheesy melodramas. Seeing,…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…re is an implicit theology to this distinctively American “religion of the marketplace”? An especially fruitful approach to precisely this question was voiced by James Buchan in his extraordinary 1997 book, Frozen Desire: In the new world, first, there is no such thing as Providence, merely probability, which can be studied at the gaming table. Second, there is such a thing as usury: whatever Aristotle and the Gospels say, money is productive of m…

The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”

By Jerry Faught

…ors and that wives must submit to their husbands at home and at church. As Ruth Graham has noted, in the wake of the decision not to stock Evans’ book, Martin King, Lifeway’s director of communications, made no statement as to Lifeway’s values and vision but simply referred her to the Southern Baptist “statement of faith” that he said guided Lifeway’s policies. In other words, Lifeway, with creed in hand, will only publish material that toes the p…

On The Kerry Apartheid Comment and the Cycle of Chutzpah

By Sarah Posner

…Fingerhut explained that a J Street U student initiated the invitation to Breaking The Silence, a group Hillel would not have invited itself. Nonetheless, Fingerhut admitted, Breaking The Silence “is, regrettably, part of the broad tent of dialogue regarding Israel.” But Fingerhut et al., Na’aman writes, “seem to be more concerned with their own feelings toward Israel — their ‘tent’ — than with Israel. Mention of the actions of the IDF, the value…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sident Juan Manuel Santos to ask lesbian Education Minister Gina Parody to run the “Yes” campaign at a time when she was already being targeted by conservatives over a controversial teaching handbook. Sensing opportunity, opponents of the FARC agreement began to argue it was another effort to undermine conservative ideas of gender and family. Articles and blogs surfaced arguing that the historic inclusion of gender and LGBTI status in the peace de…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…ng religion and society at Boston University. He is the author of Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampires. And now, without further ado, James McGrath and I reflect on the first three episodes. — Gabriel McKee Gabriel McKee_____________ After over a year wandering in the wilderness of a semi-hiatus, Doctor Who fans have at last reached the promised land: a new season, with a new actor in the lead role (Matt Smith) and a new executive pro…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he issue today, 377A would stand,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told the BBC in an interview in February. “My personal view is that if I do not have a problem, this is an uneasy compromise, I am prepared to live with it until social attitudes change.” Media policies, meanwhile, continue to block any positive portrayals of same-sex relationships, and conservative elements are both vocal and organized in lobbying against any move towards greater e…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…f “power concedes nothing without a struggle.” And I’m not sure that the struggle with market fundamentalism has even been joined yet, at least not at the level of principle where it most needs friends. Like old Simeon in Luke’s gospel, I am one who hopes to live long enough to see the consolation of Israel. Only in my case that consolation would take the form of deliverance from the malignant free-market madness that US conservatives have success…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Rabbinate, which refuses to carry out same sex marriages, and Christians, Druze and Muslims all marry through their own state-sanctioned and publicly funded religious legal systems. Guam: Officials looking to market as wedding destination for Asian couples Two hundred same-sex couples have married in Guam over the past two years, reports The Guam Daily Post. The story says the Guam Visitors Bureau is researching the potential market for same-sex c…

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

By Peter Laarman

…allor to American culture. Robinson has a new piece beating this familiar drum in the current issue of Harper’s. To be clear, I do understand why Robinson would wish to correct the caricature of Puritans as hopeless cranks—a caricature that the intellectuals and humorists of the Roaring Twenties did much to create. But I worry that she contributes to a different distortion when she makes them out to be prototype human rights heroes. And also: enou…