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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…en a part of the American landscape since the first circuit riders hit the frontier villages. Even today, there’s no difference between Mike Lindell and a dozen televangelists, save a thousand milligrams of lithium. If you have any doubts about the commodification of the healing grace of God, google it for yourself. There’s a part of American Christianity that believes deeply and sincerely that if they can make it out of the lion’s den, they can t…

Hate the Sinner, Love the Gun

By Gary Laderman

…ate values, and rejuvenating rituals. From Davy Crockett’s exploits on the frontier to Neo’s superhuman heroics in The Matrix; from Halo’s supernatural pull in the gaming world to John Wayne’s swagger as the cinematic embodiment of a cowboy with “true grit”, pulling the trigger or watching others pull the trigger has tremendous symbolic, and real-world, resonances. Especially in a country continually gripped by persistent fear of others: savage In…

Catholic Bad Girls or Good Catholic Women: Bridging the Generation Gap

By Kate Childs Graham

…hough we have not yet ironed out every wrinkle, online activism is the new frontier for social justice, and it is working. The Heyday is Now Kissling states, “This is about the best and the brightest of the bad girls (BBBG) who had their heyday in the 1980s and ’90s when Catholic feminists were radical feminists.” I must admit, when I first read this sentence, I felt a bit angry and disappointed. We—young progressive Catholics—might not consider o…

87th Anniversary of First Bat/s Mitzvah

By Benjamin Weiner

…m also allows for a female coming-of-age ritual, though it generally rivals Judith Kaplan’s in trying to keep girls out of the regular flow of the service. There are feminist gains still to be consolidated, but the frontier has largely moved on from sex to sexuality. Kaplan’s Reconstructionism, along with Reform, were early pioneers of GLBT Jewish rights though the Conservative movement has recently begun to follow….

For God or for Fame? The Making of a Teenage Bomber

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ovember 26, Mohamud’s primary connection with Afghanistan or the northwest frontier of Pakistan was media images of Osama bin Laden. As further evidence of his actions being motivated within a media world was the Osama bin Laden-like video he recorded to take credit for the bombing. He changed his clothes for the video and put on a white robe and a white-and-red headdress. He told his FBI handler that, “he wanted to be ‘Sheik Osama style’.” His at…

The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…the Franks as religious wars rather than as conflicts over the control of frontier settlements. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I wrote this book to be accessible and compelling for all readers. However horrifying and disturbing the First Crusade was, it is a great story, and one that more people ought to know. I’m also hoping not to lose my scholarly audience, because the book is presenting genuinely new interpretations of…

Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…shitholes—whether of the “Jungle,” “Desert,” “Poor/Hungry,” “Commie,” or “iPhone Factory” variety. The “Shithole World Map” is clearly meant to be funny, but that doesn’t mean it’s parody. The map reflects an American-centric view of the world that the 45th president stoked. Trump’s followers weren’t delighting in simply shocking and outraging “the libs”; they were reaching back to a longer tradition of how to see the world—one with deep roots in…

Romney Betrays Harold Bloom’s Fantasy Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…is nothing exceptionally peculiar in Mormonism’s transition from renegade frontier religious movement to bureaucracy. Its mainstreaming and bureaucratization is as American a story as its origins. Intoning darkly the most sensational aspects of Mormon belief, a rhetorical tactic in which Bloom borrowed much from Hitchens—they tithe! they don’t allow non-Mormons (or less observant Mormons, in fact) in LDS temples! they believe they might become li…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…s (in Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontier of Life) about the question of life having meaning and therefore a point: “I have yet to hear a good answer, other than there is no point.” Now that will really fire people up to make sacrifices! It seems to me the New Atheists have it wrong. If you deprive people of the solace of faith in a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselve…

Web 8.0: The Return of the Human

By Beatrice Marovich

…“actively delight in a cacophonous, multicultural colonization of that far frontier so that it can’t be monopolized by fundamentalists.” When Lanier speculates on virtual worlds that might act as portals into new bodies, I read this as a kind of prophecy. I am endlessly curious to discover what it might be like to exist as one of the skin cells that hangs out on my hand, or as one of the Rocky Mountain goats who grazes on sage and sunbathes on cl…