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70th National Prayer Breakfast Made ‘Cosmetic’ Changes, But Biden Delivered the Same Old Tone-Deaf ‘Unity’ Message

By Chrissy Stroop

…most notably the exploitation of the event by convicted Russian spy Maria Butina. The fallout from these scandals led the organizers to make some changes in how the event is run starting this year. Most substantively, the NPB itself is now run by a legally distinct entity from the Family, and only the president, senators, and members of Congress are invited, with their respective plus-ones. A separate event, “the Gathering,” is held simultaneously…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…, God acknowledges that “the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth,” but God also says very clearly that human evil will never again warrant a divine vendetta against the whole human race. So the biblicists need to consult their Bibles in order to see that their idea about the weight of human sin triggering apocalyptic destruction has no scriptural support. For secular environmental prophets, the Rainbow Sign takeaway will be quite dif…

Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority

By Anthony B. Pinn

…of internalized racism made manifest through wealth; plastic surgery isn’t cheap! Toni Morrison pointed out the ‘wish’ of sameness—the desire on the part of some African Americans to see reflected in themselves and through themselves the ‘ideal’ depicted in US popular culture. Morrison referenced blue eyes, and Michael Jackson’s body came to mirror this desire to be different, to change the flesh to fit the dominant ideal. There is certainly somet…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…s.) If women can make their own money, and men can get sex from women who put out without men having to put a ring on it, there is no longer any reason for people to form lasting relationships. Regnerus allows as how women in the past might have had to “enter marriages for financial reasons” rather than for love, but his rosy view of the past assures him that even then, “many nonfinancial benefits followed, including the formation of a stable, int…

From ‘Management Gurus’ to ‘Corporate Chaplains’: A Review of Spirituality Inc.

By Brittany Shoot

…tackles such diverse topics as religious-based civil rights complaints about the workplace and how post-industrial revolution de-skilling of workers took the spirit (so to speak) out of mass production. Citing thinkers from John Calvin to Max Weber, Lambert explains the increased demands of industrial production, deconstructing dehumanizing management methods such as Taylorism and Fordism as he moves into the rise of personal development programs…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…cades—is still in place. Sister Aloysius’s power within her domain is absolute, but the borders of that domain are unchanging. It’s tempting to view this story as a mystery—did Father Flynn abuse his student, or didn’t he?—but Shanley doesn’t want us to walk away with an answer. Father Flynn’s explanation is plausible enough, but his behavior is strange enough to hint that Sister Aloysius is right, and both characters are convincing. Ultimately, t…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…ed religious tribute, to Caesar and Mars . . . And yet, and yet, the times are inexhaustibly good, solaced by the courage and hope of many.” Cynicism is understandable, and despair more so. But instead of siding with cheap, whitewashed nostalgia, let us note that certain moments in the past remind us of the future that may yet still be achieved….

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…of the six-page board book “Roaring Rockets,” which she somehow stretched out to fill twenty minutes by asking dozens of children their names “What? Your name is Violet? Whoa!” There was also Seema Verna, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who read “The Berenstain Bears go to the Doctor” to the children, but only after forcing them all to chant in unison “Thank you President Trump!” (presumably for allowing them to vi…

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Avatar and the Myth of Originality

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…emselves to an audience that has fully incorporated the idea of “creation out of nothing.” But once these new myths of the individual get told, take hold, and are retold, people recite them as a creed. “We are all individuals!” goes the collective anthem of Brian’s disciples in Monty Python’s astute spoof of Jesus films, The Life of Brian. And once this happens we’ve lost deep creativity. By denying our own influences, standing up for our individu…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…Christian readings of the Bible anyway—Jews were always more ambivalent about him) and therefore he can’t be seen getting in knock-down, drag-out fights with his sons. Good people don’t do that. And of course, Jesus can’t be tempted by sins of the flesh—even though the Bible itself suggests that he might’ve been. I don’t think it’s because Aronofsky’s Noah has a mixture of admirable and flawed elements that he raises fundamentalist suspicions. It’…