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Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…world is meaningful but you don’t love, you cannot help but experience the world as meaningless. If you think the world is meaningless, but you are in love with life or with a person, you can’t help but experience the world as utterly meaningful. That’s faith for me—a material enactment of the beauty and depth of life. In America, faith has come to mean cognitive belief in something that lacks sufficient evidence. So, I can say I have faith that t…

Without Bev Shea, No Billy Graham

By Douglas Harrison

…co-evangelist role with Graham, who “routinely insisted,” according to the New York Times, that without Shea, “he would have had no ministry.” There’s doubtless some truth to this view of Shea—as the unprepossessingly powerful vocalist whose gospel singing served as the musical poetry to Graham’s preacherly prose. Yet Shea’s legacy is also more complicated, and more interesting, than this view suggests. In the first place, Shea was the bigger name…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…he process: the author, editor, publisher, designer, marketing, sales, sometimes the agent. You can sometimes go through a dozen different ideas and variations (sometimes more) before you find something that everyone can agree upon. A daunting task to say the least. But I have to say, the team who worked on Holy Ghosts nailed it from the get go. The layout and font were perfect as was the placement of the photos. There was just one caveat. The ini…

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…vernment, [this] religious revival couldn’t be timelier. Then he took his crusades worldwide. Between 1962 and 1974, Graham personally met the region’s most brutal anti-communist military rulers, including Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Ernesto Geisel of Brazil, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, and Augusto Pinochet of Chile, whom Graham praised as a “great Christian leader.” Graham wasn’t the only American preacher to wage an anti-communist spiritual f…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…t transparent enough to see their lily-white skins. Noah speaks of the destruction of the whole world and eventually, with great reluctance, the re-peopling of the world—which seems to be all white. As origin stories Genesis and Enoch are not scientific texts, but they do have their own logic: earth brown humans are crafted from the brown earth humus and from them descend peoples of all nations. The ancient Israelites who crafted and preserved the…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…world, with grand narratives such as Arab nationalism, Islamism, and Third World liberation often running through one another. The appeal of these ideologies has died for a number of reasons, which I discussed in a previous essay. Before we hyperventilate over the possibility of an Iran on the Nile, let’s keep in mind that the Brotherhood is not the dominant force in these protests, its political ideology is weakly formed, its political vision is…

Extra-Terrestrial Kitsch: Capricology #4

By Anthea Butler

…ash-up of sci-fi and soap opera—which speaks to Henry’s observations about worlds we can learn from versus the world we live in—but I like that about the series. I like being disoriented by the bobble-headed bull, first because it comes from my world and then because it means something different on Caprica. I felt similarly when Baxter chided the “destructo God” in the sky. The distance/no-distance between Caprica’s God and our own gave me pause….

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…ildren only became firmer in their self-assurance. Set against the general run of their ruminations, Hook’s history can only described as revisionist. Reminiscent of the internet cult-phenomenon Zeitgeist’s treatment of Jesus, it featured the standard ingredients of a turn-your-world-upside-down debunking. Before Santa Claus became Baby Jesus’ materialistic sidekick, we learned, he passed through a sequence of incarnations and permutations that go…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…od and evil. Herzog supplies us with apocalyptic speculation as to the destruction that will result from a sizeable solar flare that might destroy our tech infrastructure. Then there’s the Dark Internet and its mysterious forces that might someday bring down the world we take more and more for granted (which feels like an updated form of spiritual warfare). When we collectively dream of a positive future for humanity it often begins to look like t…

A Church (Further) Divided: Putin’s Patriarch Now Faces a Rebellion From Within the Russian Orthodox Church

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ointing once again to the deep divides that animate the Orthodox Christian world—both inside and outside of Russia—and play a significant role in the continuing conflict in Ukraine. Despite what some in the Western press have been willing to believe, Patriarch Kirill has not been an advocate for peace. In fact, he has at times seemingly gone out of his way to provoke the situation, conjuring the memory of old hatreds and false histories. This has…