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Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…the “immorality” of New Orleans, of course, according to a priest recently promoted to bishop (after making those remarks) by Pope Benedict XVI. Even Glenn Beck (remember him?) opined that the recent catastrophes in Japan constituted “a message being sent. And that is, ‘Hey, you know that stuff we’re doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.’ I’m just saying.” (Read the full quote here.) Strange, then, the eer…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…ca’s case, we refer to Section 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, thereby ruling out the possibility of formal recognition of same-sex relationships. It is a provision that has its foundation in a deep-seated, if slowly receding, homophobia that has caused us to maintain the buggery provisions, which, essentially, criminalise male homosexuality and allows the State…

Seven Years After Hurricane Katrina, Reflecting on the Fallacy of Divine Retribution

By The Editors

…us Groups Ignore Him LEVI MCLAUGHLIN • Mar 17, 2011 While it appears as if Japan, like America, has its share of vocal public figures eager to equate disaster with apocalypse and to use mass human suffering as an excuse to propagandize, Japanese religious groups have joined together—largely under the media radar—to help in the relief effort. The Heresy of End Times Predictions LOUIS A. RUPRECHT • Jun 6, 2011 Apocalyptically-minded souls—nationalis…

You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…Indeed, significant minorities of Republican voters believe voting rights, freedom of the press, and the right to criticize government have “gone too far.” In this sense, the Trump presidency is a symptom of white evangelical Christian authoritarianism, not the cause. It’s not that who Trump is isn’t recognized among some Republican politicians. Opponent Marco Rubio correctly called Trump a “con artist” during the primary. Ted Cruz accurately labe…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…,” an act of blasphemy for Christians. In addition to drawing further ties between Jang and Rev. Moon, who famously declared himself the messiah, this recent controversy hits close to home for evangelicals because of Jang’s ties to many parachurch organizations with seemingly orthodox beliefs. While Olsen and Smith are careful to cite sources who both confirm and deny that members are led to believe that Jang is the second coming of Christ, the ar…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ke in Bahrain earlier this month, where he again insisted that marriage is between a man and a woman. Czech Republic: Marriage equality campaign launched by NGOs Five NGOs have launched a campaign to promote marriage equality, where same-sex couples have been able to register as partners since 2006. Mexico: Gay soccer team hurt by US visa denials The Set Pieces, a sports site, features the Zorros Club de Futbol, an amateur soccer team from Mexico…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…ention of people towards who said what and why and away from the issues of better pay, better work-life balance, pension, healthcare benefits and the like. And this is precisely what Hamline University has done by firing a vulnerable adjunct professor, a move that, if anything, further stokes divisiveness and Islamophobia in society. The message that Hamline has sent is that Muslims are an intolerant people who don’t value freedom of expression. A…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…or our own culture. People ask me, what’s the harm? Why not just go gluten free? And the answer is that going gluten free has all sorts of effects. It affects your relationship with your friends and family. It affects your relationship with your own past and foods that you love. While there might be some culture in which celebratory foods don’t typically contain gluten, that’s not our culture. Do you think there’s an incentive to setting yourself…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…re, then this was only because they were perceived to be Protestant-style “free thinkers.” The Roman Church, by contrast, was insistent on the importance of thinking traditionally and orthodox-ly, not just freely. This is a very different picture of Rome in the 1500s and 1600s, the same era saw that witnessed the first slow-moving gestures toward the creation of the Library, and then the Museums, at the Vatican. So, the Church in the 1500s cared m…

Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…also why dissatisfied customers at restaurants want to get their dish for free, or get a free glass of wine, or a free dessert, because that balances out the input-output equation. So if the customer service agent gives you something, then you feel compensated, then you’re okay, and it’s not such a cognitive puzzle, and also not such a frustration to deal with the amorphous agent of the airline as a whole. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the custo…