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The Transfiguration of the Fanboy: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, The Conclusion

By Mark Dery

…our messy death would be a record breaker?”) Then again, the biblical scholar Bart D. Ehrman has argued persuasively that Jesus himself didn’t believe he was the messiah. Ehrman attributes Jesus’s deification to later sources with a vested interest in his mythologization—the Gary Peppers in Christ’s fan base.[7] “If we want to know about the historical Jesus, we are more or less restricted to using the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,”…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…o contribute their own unique talents and visions to the event. My particular art form is the academic study of religion and the practice of writing, so I see this book as my way of participating with the community. What is the most important take-home message for readers? Part of my intention has been simply to tell the story of Burning Man and to shed light on its immense ritual diversity. But ultimately I hope to challenge comfortable assumptio…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…this way “Those who say, ‘I love God,’ and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.” Black theology challenges white Christians to love our black brothers and sisters not in a cloying or condescending way, but with real justice. In a nation marked by centuries of slavery, lynching, Jim Crow laws, legal segregation, and systemic racism, tha…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…s, brought the musical sounds of the black church into the so-called “secular” marketplace. In your writing, you show a lot of respect for youth. As the youngest of thirteen children, how is your personal history reflected in your attitude toward the power and authority youth can have in cultural debates? I don’t think it’s anything from my personal history that explains why I have respect for young people. I didn’t identify as being part of a you…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…or studio efforts haven’t cracked the code for commercial success either: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah earned a respectable $100 million, but cost an estimated $125 million to make. Son of God did okay at the box office, grossing $26.5 million its opening weekend, bolstered by support from American megachurch pastors including Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. But ticket sales quickly faded. Independent studios have done better. Sherwood Pictures, the movie…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…also become increasingly depersonalized. In the age of the internet and smart phones, we can shop anywhere at anytime and have no contact with another human being. We can shop alone, in secret. I remember growing up going to my local drugstore with my mother. It had a lunch counter, the owner’s son was my soccer coach, purchases were written up on slips of paper and individuals paid at the end of each month. This was not small town America in the…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…not one of us did or said anything to fight back against the ugliness and barbarity of indiscriminate violence. Too many people—not just dentists on Virgin Airlines—make statements like, “Muslims don’t do enough to reject terrorism.” It’s probable many of them have never met Muslims. If they tried, they might be surprised. In fact, the reaction to my essay—you’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline compani…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…words, the birth control coverage, “and that entitlement is to women” who are “harmed” if they are denied it. Justice Anthony Kennedy, thought to be the swing vote, asked Clement, “how would you suggest we think about the rights of employees?”, noting that their religious beliefs might not square with those of their employer. But Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether RFRA was even intended to take into account the interests of third parties a…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…cular lead and speak. They are quick to tell the gathered crowds that they are are college-graduated and able to use tech-savvy information strategies through outlets such as Indigenous Environmental Network and many others. They are gloriously hybrid leaders—the “digital natives” nobody was thinking of when they coined that term—combining the best of subversive education and information technology, blending indigenous and post-industrialized ways…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…explaining a small group’s behavior,” he said, “like a team or a string quartet.” Larger collectives, like government agencies or corporations, are where it gets tricky. “First of all, we don’t even know who is in the institution,” he continued. “Who is a member and who is not? Who plays what role? What causal contribution do they make?” These questions were familiar to me—I’d been asking them about Ferguson lawmakers and JetBlue customer service…