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Clint Eastwood Upstages Mitt Romney with a Chair

By Anthea Butler

…vention is still at the woodshed, or riding in the cargo hold of Ryan’s VP plane. Eastwood was a reminder of the very racial animus in the campaign that the Republican Party is working hard to make us forget. And while we saw a parade of women and people of color on the platform, down on the convention floor, peanuts were thrown at a black camerawoman Patricia Carroll, with the unnamed perpetrators shouting: “that’s how we feed the animals.” Inci…

Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…mething like an invisible hand, deferred to the Big Bang or some alternate plane of existence. Second, “myths” brings us back to South Korean amusement parks. They remind us that there is much more to culture than cold hard facts. (Otherwise, how could we have Fox News?) The popularity of a myth like creationism depends on social dynamics, publicity, and specific institutions of power. To combat it, evolution needs more than just the hard facts. I…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…tokrator sustaining the world and raising or exalting humanity to a higher plane, rather than descending into suffering and death among utterly corrupted humans. A few years back Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker did a stunning job of exposing the importance of this tradition, soteriologically speaking, in Saving Paradise. Tony Jones is not quite ready to take the Eastern view, let alone the Tillichian view that there is ultimately no conflict at all…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…that people in the West hear so much about. To use a crude analogy: if one plane crashes in a day, it’s of course big news. Ninety-nine planes don’t and they don’t make the news. The episodes of mass peaceful protest within the Muslim world for the most part have not made the news, with the exception of what’s happened over the past six or eight months. Do you think the Arab Spring is changing this negative perception of Islam? Now, if you talk…

“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…s say you run into someone on the street, or have a seat by someone on the plane, and they say: “You know, I’ve always believed that…,” and they tell you what they believe. “It’s what I grew up with.” Maybe, “I’ve even been involved in activism. But I’m having doubts, and I really am afraid of what might happen if I look at those doubts too closely. Do you have advice for me?” Well, I would say that it would be important to find a circle of peopl…

The Devil Stole Rod Parsley’s Money

By Sarah Posner

…od’s Profits: Parsley boasts that over the years he has had four different planes that have shuttled him more than a million miles around the world, allegedly to preach the gospel. The current plane is dubbed Shamgar VII, which Parsley translates as “God on the move.” (In the Bible, Shamgar was a judge who slaughtered six hundred invading Philistines with an ox goad.) In 2007, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and the Senate Finance Committee opened an…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…d the lavish lifestyle of the Roberts family). Roberts’ daughter died in a plane crash alongside her husband and, in 1980, Roberts’ son committed suicide after being arrested for drug use. The recent 2007 scandal involving finances at ORU, and accusations of Richard Roberts’ second wife Lindsay’s behavior with male ORU students was enough to bring Oral out of retirement and back at the helm of ORU for a short period of time. Whatever might be said…

The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…r. The day after those declarations of independence took place, I was on a plane to Boston on a two-month visit to an uncle who’d already lived there for several years. The timing was a coincidence; my family had been planning this trip for a while. But midway through my visit, seeing that a fate similar to Croatia’s was not unfathomable in Bosnia, my mother suggested that I try to stay in Boston—maybe turn this visit into the fun and valuable exp…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…h up with the Rev. David Ostendorf by cell phone while he is waiting for a plane at an East Coast airport. He is the executive director of the CNC where Ward works. Ostendorf, A United Church of Christ minister, once led PrairieFire Rural Action, a group that tried to save family farms during a major agricultural economic crisis in the 1980s. “Back then we helped build a popular economic political movement among family farmers across the country s…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ining in his claustrophobic space suit—at one point fleeing the country by plane to avoid an endurance test. Psychologists worked with him to mitigate fears that appear to have been well-founded, considering his near-death tailspin. Of course, from a certain perspective, such fears are merely a bug in the system, best removed in the interest of mission efficiency. Such is the legacy of management science, whose history stretches at least as far ba…