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

By Brittany Shoot

…e bring their faith into secular work environments. In Lake Lambert’s new book, Spirituality Inc., he 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 manage…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…nswer is “no,” then get rid of it. The advice has certainly resonated—the book has sold more than two million copies, and it spent months on the New York Times bestseller list. By my friends’ telling, it’s practically required reading for anyone trying to live in a cramped New York apartment. There’s something spiritually satisfying about the act of pruning. Who hasn’t dreamed of simplifying their life, committing to minimalism, and limiting their…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…es, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary. Looming over all of it is the idea that we foolish humans have triggered some deep-level physical processes (methane gas release, ocean acidification, etc.) that now possess an ominous life of their own. In these circumstances the word that slides naturally from the tongues of pundits is “apocalyptic.” It strikes many that we are now entering an apocalyptic scenario without…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…ing to pray in the name of Jesus sends a message—the message that to be a good American, one should also be a Christian. And this message enables authoritarian Christian nationalists in their pursuit of a theocratic political agenda. The anti-pluralism inherent in the National Prayer Breakfast is grating and would be reason enough for a head of state to discontinue support for the event in a functional modern democracy—which the United States is d…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…York Times review ends with a note on its “R” rating since, “It has fake bloodshed and real nudity”: This difference is crucial.) Cassidy and Randy each work double lives, between their bodies as commodities and their bodies that have to pay the rent and support their children. Somewhere in all the meat are identities, struggling for birth. Each carries multiple names: Cassidy is “Pam,” while Randy “The Ram” Robinson is actually “Robin Raminski”—h…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…50 years; most obviously the abuse scandals, but also the shrinking priesthood, the changing role of women, the civil rights movement, and the cross-pollination of secular and religious cultures. Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 (taken from Shanley’s own childhood experience), the school’s principal, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), is almost comically tyrannical. The parish priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is unconventional, al…

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

By Karen E. Park

…nt held at the White House. The Trumps’ first Easter Egg Roll in 2017 was poorly planned and thrown together hastily, by a First Lady who was likely still adjusting to her new and unwanted responsibilities, and resulted in a much smaller event than in previous years. But in 2018, the Trump administration was determined to take full advantage of this extraordinarily easy public relations opportunity—not to entertain children and spread goodwill, bu…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

You lie on your back in a cool summer’s grass, staring at the clouds. Familiar shapes begin to emerge, depending on your perspective and imagination: a rabbit here, a human figure there, a turtle further on. Or perhaps, you sit in a comfortable seat and wear odd glasses and stare into the luminescent world of Pandora. Familiar stories begin to emerge, depending on your perspective and imagination: a tale of American colonization, a cheap rip-off…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

I was around nineteen years old when I understood that kitsch was stupid. Maybe it’s the other way around: it was then that I understood that the clichés, conventions, and other intellectually clunky tropes with which I had largely grown up had a name—kitsch—and that smart people had gotten beyond them. The adolescent alienation that I shared with, I’ll wager, many readers of this magazine was a temporary phase. It did, in fact, get better, preci…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…, declared: ‘Everything I learned about Iranians I learned working in the pool room. I met a lot of liars, and I know Iranians are liars.’ Now, I know you had the same reaction to this unbelievable statement that I did: Lindsey Graham is running for office! And not just running, but as the foreign policy expert. And everything he learned, he learned working in the pool room? Graham is one of what now appear to be several dozen Republican candidate…