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What Passover Taught Me About Being Black

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…For me, it was watching Cecil B. Demille’s The Ten Commandments, starring Charleston Heston and Yul Brenner. I relished each time Brenner’s Ramses scowled at his viziers and exclaimed, “So let it be written, so let it be done.” My admiration for this cinematic villain was rivaled only by my admiration for Darth Vader. The annual viewing of the Exodus story is what cemented my Easter experience. However, as a Black teenager growing up in the 1990s…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…ouston suburbs, appreciates that her family “can be together and learn the scriptures at a slower pace.” She describes home worship as a “spiritual experience” in which her husband can “bless and pass the sacrament” for her and their children. Leonardo Leyva, who attends the nondenominational Embassy Church in Denver, believes that without the usual distractions, people’s “relationship with God has grown.” Michelle Orihel had been feeling ambivale…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…failed—and won’t be able to counter the barrage of authoritarian, proto-fascist and fascist disinformation and legislation that’s coming from the Republican side. If “independence” means not calling out the attacks on American democracy for what they are, the word has lost all meaning. So what would be a responsible way to report on Republicans, then? Well, for starters: every time a Republican voices white nationalist and other racist dog whistl…

Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity

By Jori Lewis

…to the metamorphosis of Jesus to a being with a visible divine radiance. Toscano describes the play as “a biblical magic trip.” It’s a one-man show that explores the stories people of indeterminate gender, of Joseph and his girl-like ways (remember his coat of many colors?), and of Deborah and her man-like ones. In Toscano’s play, he includes two sketches with eunuchs. In one of them, he tells the biblical story of the Ethiopian eunuch who Philip…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…ibition? Download to find out! Category Winner. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to Here Be Monsters, a self-described “podcast about the unknown.” Creator Jeff Emtman created the show to face his fears. This is reflected in his willingness to embed jarring stories within rich and chaotic sonic landscapes. Most episodes are short and sweet. Get started with “The Grandmother and the Vine of the Dead,” which was Slate’s pick for the 25th best podca…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…LDS missionaries want to help you reach your potential in heaven. Mormon eschatology is radically egalitarian, and very American: everyone gets a second chance, everyone wins. It would make a great, cheesy musical number. Mormons are ideal subjects for musical parody because they have their own homegrown traditions of musical theater. Not counting its uniformed missionaries, the most recognizable Mormon “product” in the religious marketplace is t…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…stry wants the world to view LGBT people—as purely sexual beings. Foster’s screed is simply a long promo for a new ex-gay movie coming out, and the trailer, three-minutes of nauseating footage, centers around how each of these former homosexuals lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexually abused. For all the claptrap the religious right yells about how they don’t want to think of us “that way,” the t…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ree in a subject before dismissing it altogether. It makes sense too for a scientist to think science is fair ground for such a fatwa. Though Dawkins would do his fans and foes a favor by taking this prospect of a multipolar world more seriously. Nobel Prizes are a largely Western affair. Most rankings, judgments and pronouncements on the “best of” this or the “worst of” that are absent Muslim considerations—all the more grating since one of four…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…ory about ‘Cultural Marxism.’” It’s 1,500 pages long, and is already being scrutinized by scholars and journalists; a complete picture of its entirety will take some time to come into focus, as will the extent of his relationships with other individuals and groups.* Breivik claims to protect a “pure” Nordic race, and apparently sees himself as launching a modern-day crusade modeled on the Knights Templar. In the “Conservative Revolution” section o…