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Necessary Sacrifice: Sundance, Mormon Movies, and the Race to Oscar Night

By Kathryn Lofton

…h this thing called life.” As I sat in the theater, the lighting ebbed and flowed with each 15- or 17-minute presentation, the inhales and exhales of a room barely enduring its own exhibition. Every film included the same slow start, with an unflappable camera recording the quotidian: two African American cousins find work clearing a white man’s post-Katrina bungalow; a muscleman hefts barbells and stares at himself in the mirror; a Finnish farm w…

Media Overplays Rihanna Concert Coverup

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ce, the latter two of which sometimes include scanty clothing. People can hear performers like Rihanna or Gwen Stefani sing any time if they buy her CD or mp3s, but they pay to see her wear crazy getups and do complicated dance numbers. Whatever. Rihanna will cover up, and if Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera wants to perform in Malaysia, they’ll cover up, too. While I don’t care for the rule, the media attention on it seems misguided and sensa…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…ork, both being a Christian and an activist, is hard. But I’ll make a deal with you, Bono: I won’t let us think that showing up on Sunday morning makes us a Christian without doing the hard work of reconciliation. You don’t let us think that purchasing our concert ticket is helping to dismantle patriarchy, racism, and economic structures of oppression—especially when you have a chance to preach to a whole stadium full of the very ones perpetuating…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…richo Marches reveal a large group in the snow, bearing primarily Canadian flags and singing hymns, reciting the Lord’s Prayer, and then blowing shofars before they begin marching. The hymns and prayers are occasionally punctuated by people yelling “Freedom!” and trucks honking. One woman speaks in tongues before engaging in rhetoric I’ve seen in spiritual warfare sermons. They pray for healing from vaccines and to summon the “Lord of Heaven’s arm…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…le arguments. Very often in public “discussions” of homosexuality, someone will stand up and begin to call out numbers. “But what about Genesis 19!” “Leviticus 18!” “Romans 1!” (Those citations refer respectively, and for those of you who have skipped out on church debates, a disturbing story about God’s punishing the sins of a lost city, some prescriptions in the Israelite holiness code, and the Apostle Paul on the consequences of pagan idolatry….

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…cussion at hand Readers who fail to follow these guidelines may have their comments deleted and their commenting privileges disabled with or without warning. — The Editors…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ere. Africa, the Americas, Australia, East Asia—all were colonized or otherwise interfered with. The few Muslim governments that attempted to beat the West at its own game were quickly invaded and, albeit with great difficulty, put down. Euthanized, as modernity likes to do to the ancient. The Albanian ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, and Tipu Sultan of southern India, great nemesis of British ambitions in South Asia. One of the few countries to esca…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s a general rule, I like to have some sort of close relationship and trust with the person I get naked with. I plan to share something special with them, so I want to have some feelings before I fall into bed with them. As for clubs, they were never my scene and I ditched them in my 20s. There are plenty of other ways to meet other LGBT people … church, for instance! Certainly, many LGBT people have suffered from sexual abuse, but so have many str…

Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

By Eric Reitan

…ere was no national controversy. Parents weren’t inundating administrators with phone calls threatening to pull their kids from school in order to protect them from Bush’s efforts at political indoctrination. But this time that’s exactly what happened. And in response to the controversy and the barrage of outraged parental phone calls, many school systems decided it was safest not to air the speech at all. Others required that alternative activiti…