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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Should Evangelical Trump Critics Leave The Movement? Who Cares?

By Daniel Schultz

…inarily, I trust and appreciate Jonathan Merritt’s work. He is generally a reliable guide to the world of white Evangelicals. However, his recent piece in The Atlantic on whether anti-Trump Evangelicals should leave the movement suffers from a couple of big problems. Merritt begins by pointing to the case of Jimmy Carter, who has not-really disassociated himself from the Southern Baptist Convention over its positions on women in ministry, acceptan…

The Mormon Girl’s Guide to Equal Opportunity in the Workplace

By Joanna Brooks

…nges like gendered pay disparities ($.77 on the dollar), limited access to reliable, affordable child care, absence of paid maternity leave (the U.S. being one of three nations in the world not to guarantee it), and history of religious teachings in your own tradition against women working outside the home. 5. Type up letter-perfect resume. In a pleasing font. 6. Place resume in hand-quilted, appliquéd binder. 7. Leave the binder somewhere importa…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…the most important of which is that “consistent sources are automatically reliable.” The people directly connected to suicide terrorists frequently ascribe ideological motives to their loved one’s act of simultaneous self-destruction and homicide. Friends and family do it, perhaps due to the stigma against suicide. Terrorist leaders make the same claims for propaganda purposes. Even the bombers themselves, in their final videos (another cliché) s…

Conservative Christian Opposition to Health Care: Political Grandstanding?

By Daniel Schultz

…top them from decrying the possibility, the better to insert themselves as reliable brokers in the supposed hostilities between the religious Right and the secular Left. Again, for our purposes, the interesting thing is what’s not here. Nurture, nourishment and evocation of an alternative consciousness and perception? No, just the assertion of political muscle. Criticizing the failed promises of the dominant culture? No, not unless you count “I’m…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…prisingly, railroad owners wanted a common currency of time, or at least a reliable way of making conversions. They got it. Gradually, cities and regions folded themselves into national and international time standards, although there were significant holdouts (most notably, the city of Calcutta) until the 1950s. That transition could be difficult, and at times comical; The Global Transformation of Time is full of gems about a world shifting into…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…ting career he borrowed a screen-ready stage name from the Los Angeles telephone directory. “He was serious about who he was, about being Jewish,” Wolff remembers of the impression Landon made during that first meeting. “He had been looking for a way to announce it to the world.” According to Wolff, “The Craftsman” became that way. Singerman was a Jew dropped into the mythology of the American West, much as Landon himself had been as a star of Bon…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…this “conclusion” to Dana’s story raises the question of whether Dana is a reliable narrator after all. I expect that Huneven wants us all to ponder this question. Yes, the actressy candidate proves to be a complete dud; but does this make the youth faction on the search committee entirely wrong in their basic intuition about the need for a new leadership style? Similarly, is “stand-strong-to-the-end” Dana, who freely admits to being hugely influe…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…ers of Truth—namely, academic researchers and government scientists—really reliable and legitimate? Stein gets this. That’s why, when the Washington Post asked her about vaccines, she said that they were “an invaluable medication”—and then immediately pivoted to talk about the untrustworthiness of the FDA, the CDC, and other federal regulatory agencies that oversee public health. She cited the corrupting influence of corporations, and then went on…

Christian Nationalist Bestseller Rooted in Volk, Homeland, and Patriarchy is ‘Blood Relation’ of a Certain 20th Century German Manifesto

By Bradley Onishi

…sness. “For complex reasons, blacks in America, considered as a group, are reliable sources for criminality, and their criminality increases when constraints diminish,” Wolfe writes. “Despite being around 13% of the US population, blacks have consistently committed over 50% of the homicides for decades, and it is getting worse. In 2020, according to the FBI stats, blacks committed nearly 57% of all known murders.” It’s not insignificant that the b…