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Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…arismatic people can project. One can’t help but be impressed by how Coe struck everyone as the real deal, as God’s true messenger, even as he was carefully developing the most pernicious example of fake Christianity the world has ever seen. To be clear, I don’t mean “fake” in the sense that certain people (ahem) mean it in characterizing things they don’t agree with. I mean “fake” in the sense that the Rev. Eric Williams, who appears in the minis…

In a Time of Chaos and Misrule, Mardi Gras’ Subversive Message is Virtually Meaningless

By Ed Simon

…exchanges roles, makes sense from nonsense and nonsense of sense.” In this world of rigid social structures, carnival was a free-floating utopia, not of location but of duration, found not in a particular place but during a particular time. Carnival signified a subversive promise, a taste of the abolishment of those things which control our lives. Even death, the plague in the midst of the celebration, was to be mocked by the partygoers. Academic…

The World Was His Canvas: The Legacy of M.F. Husain

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…Doha last September. It was titled (as Husain himself had requested) “The World is My Canvas.” Husain came back from London, where he also has a home and studio, but as an active participant, not a mere observer. He talked, he doodled, he joked, he even posed for a group photo. M.F. Husain remained a dynamic, ceaseless explorer of art, life, and beauty until a couple of weeks before his death in London on Thursday June 9. In 2003, to celebrate hi…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…of patriarchs who fear the loss of their power, the revelation of their corruption on clergy sexual abuse and its coverup, and an end to their dubious financial dealing, have aborted the Catholic community’s full potential to take on the current climate catastrophe in any credible and effective way. I’m not arguing that the full equal participation of all Catholics of whatever gender or marital status in their own church will heal the planet. But…

QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…bal of satanic pedophile elites that’s responsible for all the evil in the world. The QAnon worldview is particularly prone to these sorts of predictions, and many adherents eagerly anticipate earth-shattering future events that will completely change the world, from “the Storm” (a near future apocalyptic realization when members of this evil cabal will be arrested) to the “Great Awakening” (a time when the general population will come to realize…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ttling LGBT refugees; and stop LGBT immigration. LGBT activists around the world are concerned that Trump, who will be sworn in January 20, has given a new lease to anti-gay leaders around the world and carte blanche to discriminate against queer people. World leaders who were put on notice – and in some cases denied financial support by the U.S. under the Obama administration – may now find a friend in the White House. LGBT activists question if…

Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…logy. More than 20 years ago, sociologist Robert Wuthnow’s classic The Restructuring of American Religion posited that education, mobility, and socioeconomic factors were trumping theological differences among American Protestant denominations. Some took Wuthnow’s argument as proof text for the culture war, but it also explains the softening of theological boundaries among the mainline and the triumph of pragmatics (shrinking budgets) over dogmati…

6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…, suffers the world’s greatest brain drain; Russia’s economy is in the doldrums; and Assad only rules through astonishingly brutal force.) At some point, though, terrible violence ceases to have its intended effect, as perverse as that may sound. Imagine what happens when dysfunctional religion meets radical insurgency meets huge refugee flows, mass dislocations produced by a severe climate and an ugly geopolitical alliance against democracy, plur…

Where In The World Is Barack Hussein Obama?

By Haroon Moghul

…. Because unlike Libya, and Syria, and Iran—and unlike America, France and Russia—Egypt’s revolution was remarkably nonviolent. I ask this as a strategic question (but not unaware of the moral implications): can one change a system without the employment of force? (I am asking, not advising or suggesting.) Today, El-Baradei is back in Vienna, rumor has it that Mubarak will be out of jail shortly, and Morsi remains in detention, his location uncert…

End of the World: An Update

By Lauri Lebo

…unemployed woman who paid $1,200 to put up the sign on a park bench, alerting the people along the 10 Springs bus route that Christ will return May 21, 2011. The sign doesn’t say it, but the web site that it refers to let’s us know that Oct. 21, 2011 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” At the end of the article, there is what may be the saddest quote I have ever read in a news story: Exley has bittersweet feel…