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Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…man 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 different. These folks never imagined that God would…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…and people who consider themselves spiritual-but-not-religious who feel similarly. As he approached his conclusion, Biden built on the notion of loving one’s neighbor as oneself—a biblical commandment he called hard before claiming it used to be easier—to return to the theme of American unity. And, as he’s done before, he spoke lovingly of his early days in the Senate, when the “very strong segregationists” still present would “argue like hell on…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…eemed more concerned about the blood and pole dances than anything else, while Focus on the Family’s Plugged In review was also startling in its absolute devotion to the sex, violence, and drugs of the film. Christianity Today’s review makes one wonder why they even reviewed it in the first place, as it seems to indicate the film has nothing to do either with “Christianity,” or “today” for that matter. More specifically, it’s curious how few relig…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…pope before Vatican II. The film excises an explicit reference to the Council made in the play, but it’s still clear: Doubt paints a picture, from the cheap seats of the Bronx, of the Church in mid-transformation. But things are even more complicated than that, as the story is also an elaborate critique of the way power is wielded in the Church—and the fact that Vatican II managed to change very little. Sister Aloysius is paralyzed by her position…

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

By Karen E. Park

…children and our people. Muslim children or Jewish children or Buddhist children or the children of atheist lesbian couples are simply not welcome here. The cheap paperback Easter stories read by Sanders and Conway—no doubt ordered the day before from Amazon Prime—had nothing to do with teaching, or welcoming, or even celebrating a Christian holiday (inappropriate as that itself would have been at a White House event). As this administration did…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…. Until we can all get over our modern rejection of myth as a negative, false category, we will not be able to reconfigure structures of power based on race, class, gender, and physical ability. And until we can come to better terms with the contrived mythological nature of our own individuality, we will not be anything more than mimes….

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…ect that Jesus, being Divine, is a special case. But how different is the milquetoast Jesus from the milquetoast teens meant to ask WWJD?, or commit to virginity at the Purity Ball? This isn’t the Emergent Church; this is unreconstructed pabulum. Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is, in contrast, an exercise is complexity. Its title character is being marketed as your standard Russell Crowe action hero—Gladiator, the Prequel. In fact, he is tortured, obsess…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…eceiving us? Does he have a lie-dar? Can he ship American jobs overseas, build it for cheap somewhere else thanks to a trade agreement whose name shall not be spoken, sell that lie-dar back to us at bargain prices and use his profits to build a Super PAC to make sure you, I, and everyone here, are focused not on wage gaps but Iranian liars? For lie they do. But how much? When crowds gather to chant ‘Death to America,’ do they really mean ‘Live Lon…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…ot to be thinkers. It’s similar to the difference between the history of philosophy and philosophy, or rather, what used to be called historical theology and constructive theology. I’m not particularly interested anymore in doing scholarship. I’ve done that. For me, the goal of scholarship has always been thinking constructively. We must begin to understand how these complex systems work and how they’re interrelated. This means understanding not o…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…h Amendment granting US citizenship to anyone born in America, including children of illegal aliens. In states like Texas and California, a Hispanic majority is expected by 2025. Arguably, though, Israel’s situation is more precarious. Half of all guest workers are illegal, compared to just one-third in the US and less than that in the EU. Foreigners make up 8.5 percent of the total workforce in Israel compared to just 6% on average in OECD countr…