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

By Brittany Shoot

…rise of the service economy, over the last generation some Christian conservatives have elevated two concerns that the New Testament never raises—abortion and homosexuality—above Jesus’ urgent lessons on economic justice.” Moreton went on to point out that many Christians believe free markets to be in line with their belief that God will spread blessings of abundance. However, she was quick to point out that the current economic conditions have ca…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…museums because we all use solar cells and drink Soylent and have our clothes shipped to us (efficiently) by drone. But who will exist on the fringes? Rhinehart’s vision would have us invert the “haves” and the “have-nots,” letting the rich live lightly by offloading the messy business of consuming and owning to the poor. The solution to our problems isn’t to wildly deregulate and make transient consumption so cheap that the rich are no longer bu…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…nmental prophets—not Jim Hansen, not Bill McKibben, not Wendell Berry, not Vandana Shiva—are “out there” in a way that should give us pause. These are all sober, scientifically-grounded people. But sober and well-grounded people who have seen the future and who are terrified by what they see find it rather difficult to put up with the temporizing and tergiversation that mark the mainstream response to such an overwhelming crisis. Their sense of ac…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…lton with, “Welcome to all 1,300. And the House invites you to come to the floor today—all 1,300 of you.” According to the White House transcript of the event, this comment elicited laughter, after which the president added, “No, I’m teasing. I’m teasing. Sorry.” For a Democrat who likes to present himself as a man of the people, this tone-deaf flippancy about the NPB’s history of fostering shady dealmaking and undermining national security was on…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…nced with long “o”) inked into the skin of his middle finger? Or the white fleece vest he wears on his entrance into his final fight? A couple of reviewers did pick up on Cassidy’s heated endorsement to the blissfully ignorant Randy of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, exclaiming, “Dude, ya gotta see it! They throw everything at him: whips, chains…” to which a confused Randy replies, “tough dude.” Cassidy sees Jesus as a real wrestler, showi…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…ch’s growing pains. Sister Aloysius is the old church, authoritarian and inflexible. Father Flynn is the new order, the jocular, friendly face of a Church whose pastors no longer turn their backs to the congregation. All of this is humorously encapsulated in a scene in which Sister Aloysius counsels the novice Sister James to hang a picture of a pope on the blackboard so she can watch her class reflected in the glass. Sister James doesn’t have a p…

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

By Karen E. Park

…nt managed to create both a bizarre visual tableau and a transcript that rivaled his cringeworthy speech to the Boy Scouts. Flanked by the miserable-looking First Lady and the comically aghast Easter Bunny, Trump spoke to the children about the booming economy and the “$700 billion going into our military”—not topics usually favored by the kindergarten set. He also seemed to forget the name of the White House saying “there really is no name for it…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rious phenomenon. Not unlike staring at the clouds. But, how and why does Avatar evoke such a variety of responses? Beg. Borrow. Steal. Avatar does the same things traditional mythologies do: it begs, borrows, and steals from a variety of longstanding human stories, puts them through the grinder, and comes up with something new. In modern parlance, art, movies, and myths are “mashups,” achieving their goals through the same processes that promoted…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…l. Progressive religion values complexity and nuance; traditional religion values simplicity. Noah’s character flaws, which make him interesting to progressives, hit sour notes for traditionalists— indeed, like blue notes corrupting the C-major harmony, or complex flavors messing up the meal. And the fact that Aronofsky gives serious consideration to Noah’s nemesis, the (invented) Tubal-Cain, pushes it over the line. Villains are supposed to be ba…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…try we have surrounded by military bases, and which we possess every conceivable tactical advantage over? Because I am scared too. I could see why we, the most powerful country in the history of the world that is, additionally, as I can see from here, well-armed, would be trembling before a regional power that is firstly bogged down in a cruelly oppressive civil war in Syria and, secondly, with which we have allied strategically against ISIS. Shou…