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Picasso’s Sacred Monster Eats Chicago: A Mystery Solved?

By Jeremy Biles

…celebrated work this morning with the belief that what is strange to us today will be familiar tomorrow.” Tomorrow has come, and the Chicago Picasso is indeed familiar—but no less strange than it was forty-four years ago. What does this mysterious sculpture depict? Popular answers include: an aardvark, a bird, an Afghan hound, and one of Picasso’s lovers. But to my eyes, it looks like a sphinx—a monster that (like the anamorphic skull haunting Ha…

New Pope Accused of Conspiring in Kidnapping

By Nicole Greenfield

…Bergoglio noted disapprovingly in a 2007 speech. Meanwhile, an astounding number of women in Argentina, women without access to or education about contraception, die annually as victims of botched abortion procedures carried out in secret. If we do dig a little deeper into Bergoglio’s past, we find that he was accused of participating in one of the numerous human rights violations committed during Argentina’s Dirty War (which ended up resulting…

How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…masculinity to contemporary American evangelical culture, claiming that today’s devout have “replaced the Jesus of the gospels with an idol of machismo …” For some of the authors, the cultural and political commitments of many of today’s evangelicals have become so distasteful to their normative understanding of the faith as to render the term “evangelical” useless. As historian Thomas Kidd puts it in one of his reprinted essays, the invocation o…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…mple, 86% of White evangelicals said there are only two genders, with that number rising to 92% in 2023. The report also states, “Among White Christian groups, White evangelical Protestants (82%) and Latter-day Saints (72%) are much more likely than White Catholics (51%) and White mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (50%) to strongly feel there are only two genders.” None of this is particularly surprising, but what I do find both surprising and…

LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…ns who practice polygamy—should not be confused with the LDS Church. On Sunday afternoon, Elder Dallin H. Oaks affirmed Mormon belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ. On Saturday morning, Elder L. Tom Perry directly engaged the “Mormon moment,” acknowledging the extent to which the internet is shaping Mormons’ ability to communicate with the public and encouraging Church members to use this time to dialogue candidly with friends about our faith, w…

Neuroscience Says Evil is “Over”: Not So Fast…

By Paul Wallace

…ion or function of the brain, it must not be real. The article points to a number of ways neuropsychology has been overinterpreted and oversold. Rosenbaum addresses the fetishizing of fMRI images, the ideology that conflates causation and correlation, and the shifting semantics — evil recast as “non-empathy” by one esteemed psychologist (echoing, interestingly, the traditional Christian understanding of evil as a privation). But it’s the image of…

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ouse, and his colleague, Rob Tisinai, gives a better breakdown of what the numbers really mean—and it isn’t a rousing success story about “change.” “Out of 98 highly-motivated subjects, the authors found that a small, unspecified number can use prayer and counseling to shut down their sexual feelings or become a bit more bi. And possibly none who turned straight.” Even the researchers call their conclusions “overly optimistic.” “These results do n…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…stin Martyr able to anticipate, in his work On the Resurrection, the great day when marriage, “made lawless through lust,” would be destroyed. Augustine of Hippo likewise believed that the purpose of sex was to propagate the species, and was famously haunted by the fact that sex seemed so often to have a compulsive, self-gratifying, degraded quality unrelated to the bearing of children. (Centuries later, the Roman Catholic magisterium would design…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…n New York made even clearer a point that has been obvious since Super Tuesday: Bernie Sanders almost certainly will not be the Democratic nominee in 2016. But that doesn’t mean he should get out of the race. As many have argued, when we get to Philadelphia, Sanders can use his total delegate count to leverage changes in the party platform or nomination process. He could press for a $15/hour minimum wage plank, for example, or try to get the Democ…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ice presence on Friday—there was no intervention by police. Throughout the weekend? Well, on Saturday police were inside the barricades. State troopers and city police were inside the barricades downtown. At Emancipation Park, where the rally was being held, police were inside those barricades. And demonstrators were outside the barricades, presumably? That’s right. Demonstrators, nazis, counter-protestors, were in the streets. And here’s the deal…