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Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…em. When it comes to post-racial, we have a Jesus who can be white without words. This is even true of the digital age. Google search “Jesus” and we get hundreds of white images. If one wants other Christ figures, one must explicitly type “black Jesus,” “Asian Jesus,” “Chicano Jesus.” The color of Christ continues to reflect our racial realities and fantasies. In post-racial America that means rhetoric of being beyond color but still beholden to h…

Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ary” The End of Men: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” In the trailer to Carlson’s propaganda flick, which promotes racist anxiety about falling (White) birth rates caused by low sperm count in men who’ve grown too weak to procreate, the narrator’s voice rumbles “and so the cycle begins again.” The spiritual tone is no coincidence as I pointed out in a previous…

Paul Crouch, Architect of Prosperity Gospel Televangelism, Dead at 79

By Sarah Posner

…nd daughter of their son Paul, Jr., sued the network. She described to the New York Times “company-paid luxuries that she said appeared to violate the Internal Revenue Service’s ban on ‘excess compensation’ by nonprofit organizations as well as possibly state and federal laws on false bookkeeping and self-dealing.” The luxuries included a “former Conway Twitty estate in Tennessee, corporate jets valued at $8 million and $49 million each and thousa…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…. But God has called us to rise up and say it has to stop… they’ve already ruled ‘In God We Trust’ off of money. The enemy is doing all these things to bombard us. But we’ve got to do like this, we’ve got to stand back up.” Engle was supportive of the backers of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda at one of his “The Call” events in Kampala; he later told me that there should be “legal restraints” against homosexuality. Engle, and his cohorts eng…

Moses on the Mayflower: Was the Prophet a Founding Father?

By Linell Cady

…e heart of American democracy. It is a story that is variously invoked, at times inspiring rhetorics of freedom and transformation and at times rhetorics of law and control. Whichever dominates an era, the other’s shadow and influence are not far behind. The dynamics of this pattern, and the vision and values that it sustains, constitute the heart of the American story. For this reason, and for the “depth, breadth, and intensity of America’s attac…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…nd 40 churches, and there are major congregations in Houston, Atlanta, and New York City as well. Along the way, LLDM has been able to take advantage of a broader growth in Latin American Protestantism—a trend that has tended to favor pentecostal movements. According to Pew Research Data, one in five people in Latin America now identifies with a Protestant denomination, nearly two-thirds of which are pentecostal. These numbers bear out in the Unit…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…at the corner with the black stone. Then I will perform sa’iy, walking and running seven times between Safa and Marwa. I only know that I arrive in Jeddah at 9:30 p.m. No other real information from that recalcitrant tour company about how long we will be at this transition point before moving on—but here I am, jumping ahead of myself, again. What I meant to say was once these two rites have been completed, I am done with umrah. I can then clip my…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…n—the film is bound to frustrate, confuse, and amuse. Richard Brody at The New Yorker finds it audio-visually banal, while Zack Beauchamp writes an intellectually sympathetic essay at Think Progress; A.O. Scott at the New York Times offers, as usual, a solid review. But here I want to home in on some curious mystical and mythical melodies of this six-part narrative. The End Becomes the Beginning Mythological beginnings unfold throughout Cloud A…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Wild God’ is Not Here to Help

By Angela Bonavoglia

…is that we are able to walk through space, right into a three-dimensional world—when suddenly, the world did something utterly inexplicable: it set itself on fire. “[T]he world flamed into life,” writes Ehrenreich. There was just this blazing everywhere. Something poured into me and I poured out into it…It was a furious encounter with a living substance that was coming at me through all things at once, and one reason for the terrible wordlessness…

Sarah Palin: Bus Tour of Destruction

By Anthea Butler

…hard right religious base, and making enough money to turn Alaska into the New Jerusalem. I’m only jesting about one of these pronouncements; but the fact is, Palin isn’t about rebuilding. She’s about destruction. There is a reason she was called “rogue.” Leave it to Saturday Night Live to once again capture the essence of Sarah Palin. In a deft mashup of the film 2012 and campaign clips, the destruction that ensues from the election of Sarah Pali…