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A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. This is the opening of a tall tale, designed to test the reader’s skepticism. Ang Lee’s film adaptation of the novel, which opens in theaters on November 21, is no less fantastic (no less magically realistic) than the novel. But, watching the film, it appeared to me that what the audience was being invited to believe in was not God, but animals—or animality itself. Who could doubt the existence of animals? Don’t our dogs…

In SOTU Speech, Obama’s Inner Pugilist Emerges

By Peter Laarman

…nce of a strained effort to walk down the middle: thus the binaries (we’ll free good teachers from teaching to the test, but we’ll terminate the bad ones, etc). Others may quibble, but I think that Obama gave much too much to Big Energy in his burning passion for tapping domestic energy sources. Fracking? Really?? Anyone who pays attention to the impact of hydraulic fracking knows how very reckless and irresponsible this is. There wasn’t much fak…

Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion

By Paul Harvey

…nting African Americans in person. Thaddeus Stevens’ black housekeeper and common-law wife appears in a fictionally contrived (albeit plausible) scene at the end, where Stevens presents to her the “gift” of the original parchment of the 13th Amendment. In fairness, films focus on stories they can tell, usually about very particular turning points in history with visibly evident dramatic personae. This is the case here. To the extent they tell a pu…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…pe Francis that gives us hints about who he is. The most recent revelation comes after comments he made at a working class church San Cirillo Allessandro, on the outskirts of Rome on the first Sunday of Advent. According to L’Osservatore Romano, the Pope told parishioners he had once been a bouncer, but that his work later in life teaching psychology and literature taught him how to get people back into the church. No surprise then, that Pope Fran…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…what makes it an elite affair. The Tea Party was able to scoop up a lot of free-floating resentment and direct it against taxation and the social safety net. It’s true, however, that some of this resentment appears to be truly populist in spirit. If so, it is unlikely to sit well with the funding structure of the organization. Obama employed the rhetoric of grassroots democracy during his campaign for the presidency, and his political apparatus is…

Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

By Sarah Posner

…king and harm to human health from the drug were sufficient to satisfy the compelling interest test. In addition, the exemption in the Controlled Substances Act of peyote use by Native American tribes led the Court to conclude that the federal government does not have a compelling interest in suppressing the use of hoasca tea, a hallucinogen comparable to peyote. Suppose Senate Bill 2681 becomes law. If a person raises a RFRA defense to a charge u…

Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical?

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…… I always thought of Noah as more of a nice, gentle guy, prophet of God.” Test-audiences had the same reaction. The Hollywood Reporter recounts how “friction grew when a segment of the recruited Christian viewers… questioned the film’s adherence to the Bible story and reacted negatively to the intensity and darkness of the lead character.” Their perception of a lack of fidelity to the Bible, moreover, was bound up in this portrayal of Noah—even i…

Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) Plan Hypocrisy

By Sarah Posner

…utual funds that refuse to invest in companies that fail to meet its “Judeo-Christian” litmus test. It also maintains a “Hall of Shame” of companies, based on whether the company is involved in abortion, pornography, (presumably unwholesome) entertainment, (presumably unwholesome) lifestyle, and vices (gambling, tobacco, and alcohol). Two companies identified by Redden as being included in the mutual funds available in the Hobby Lobby 401(k), Teva…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…resort to appeals to faith, but: The religious right has given the secular-humanist-atheist community a huge opening: by placing conservative religious doctrine front and center in the healthcare debate, they have raised serious constitutional questions about what religious freedom and church-state separation mean. Many of the organizations and activists who are part of a coalition of church-state separation advocates have long done stellar work…

A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ference the size of the list? Is there some number of things-this-paper-can-be-used-for that puts the employer at a safe moral distance from the act, where previously they had been complicit? If so, what’s the number? How long does the list of possible uses have to be to assuage the employer’s conscience enough to let the employees use their compensation for things the employer finds morally repugnant? See, here’s the thing I’d prefer not to belie…