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Of Birds and Buddhists: Wildlife Rehab, NYC Style

By Jay Wexler

…hem after learning that scores of local Buddhists had been releasing large numbers of turtles into the park’s waters, where they are ill-suited to live. Buddhists believe that releasing injured or threatened animals can bring good karma to animal and releaser alike, but practiced without care and in large numbers, these releases can cause great damage. Things are even worse overseas, in places like Taiwan, where “mercy release” has become big busi…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…

Federal Court Orders Political “False Statement” Case to Proceed Against Susan B. Anthony List

By Sarah Posner

…whether a certain political advertisement published by Plaintiff violates Ohio’s false statement law.” The Ohio Elections Commission proceeding will be one to watch, not just because of the religious right’s concerted campaign to punish anti-choice Democrats — who otherwise have been allies — merely because they voted for the health care bill. The proceeding will likely shed light on how the SBA List and other anti-choice groups have waged a misi…

What Would Jesus Get Wrong? Ohio Bill Could Legitimize the Wrong Answer in Schools

By Gretchen Koch

This comic is in reference to The Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act of 2019 which, according to the Ohio ACLU is alarmingly vague and unnecessary. Among other things it says that teachers “shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student’s work,” though it doesn’t clarify what, exactly, that means in practice. Critics say that a student may be able to claim in a science class that planet Earth is 6,000 years o…

A Tale of Two Fascisms: ‘Douchey’ JD Vance vs. ‘Creepy’ Blake Masters

By Annika Brockschmidt

…polls for months, which meant that Republicans—who couldn’t afford to lose Ohio—spent big money on Vance: Super-PACs aligned with Mitch McConnell spent more than $30 million on the campaign. While Ohio has moved from swing state to red state over the last few years, Arizona has remained purple. While Trump won Arizona in 2016 decidedly, Biden beat him in 2020 by a thin margin. Masters, unlike Vance, was going up against an incumbent in Mark Kelly—…

Rushdoony’s Philosophy of Law on Wall of Ohio Courtroom

By Julie Ingersoll

…US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a judge in Mansfield, Ohio, James DeWeese, violated the constitution with the “Philosophies of Law in Conflict” poster he placed on his courtroom wall, which compares the “Moral Absolutes of the Ten Commandments” with the “Moral Relatives of Humanism.” But the media and even church-state separation activists missed the real violation when they reported the story. It may well have been the posti…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…We have an unprecedented access to cheap goods, yet we must recognize that cheap goods are cheaply made. I am not speaking of quality, I am speaking of cheap labor. We must recognize that through the act of shopping, whether it is for an article of clothing, a toy, a pint of strawberries, or even our morning cup of coffee, we participate in a global economy that values profit over people. Disposable goods are made by disposable people, faceless in…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…h, but one rarely sees discussion on how Keller’s rise to the spotlight in NYC might have come at the expense of less societally privileged pastors and theologians who wouldn’t have been given the same exposure or resources. Is the hero worship surrounding Keller just a Reformed rendition of the white savior coming to redeem the big, bad inner cities? Figueroa says women of color seminarians like herself have often had to resist the teachings of t…