Search for "cheap airline tickets .com phone number 1-800-299-7264"

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…oing work women have always done. Women and men can now both have equally “cheap sex” thanks to the Pill, but Regnerus concludes that this has come back to bite the very women who thought they were liberated by creating an equality-induced “power imbalance” in the marriage market: there is a surplus of women who want to marry, creating a buyer’s market for men. Pathetic, lonely women like “Nina” are now left out in the cold where they can expect “…

Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…ce?” It’s one of the bishops’ favorite arguments: that birth control is so cheap and so widely available that it isn’t even a question of whether the religious freedom of objecting organizations should be burdened by having to pay for it. The bishops have been claiming since 2012 that birth control is “ubiquitous and inexpensive” and anyone who wants it can get it without insurance coverage for $10 at Target. And as usual, bishops’ allies on the r…

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

By Karen E. Park

…hist 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 with its craven and phony defense of “Merry Christmas” as if it were…

Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, ‘God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism’ Glosses Over Critical Context

By Chrissy Stroop

…and historians Anthea Butler and Kristin Kobes du Mez are interwoven with compelling archival footage and interviews with other public figures. Yet this honest accounting is incomplete and consistently undermined by the repetition of talking points from numerous Christian voices, some that actually support inclusion and social justice and others that very much do not—although the film makes no distinction between them. These Christians make attem…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…sold at cost and distributed through “branch societies,” and thus undercut competitors. If you wanted notes, commentary, or maps, you would have to look elsewhere; the ABS focused on sola scriptura, with the faith that the words alone, guided by the Holy Spirit, would effect transformations in the lives of individuals. If there’s one thing that American Protestants are good at, it is mass producing and distributing religious material, be it Bibles…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ishonest, and for making a lot of money. But I suspect that our deepest discomfort comes from their naked appeals to the perfect coherence of capitalist success and personal salvation. These appeals come through a relentless emphasis on individual improvement and positive thinking. An exercise studio is not a church. But SoulCycle seems to come at some of the same themes of the prosperity gospel, only in the opposite direction: a business using th…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…aybe we will one day live in a techno-ascetic utopia, where parking lots become parks and power plants become 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 o…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…to end this war by unmasking whiteness, challenging our religious faith in competition, and dealing with the long painful history of white (especially male) frustration in a system which awards a very limited number of medals for achieving whiteness. We are all afraid of the copycats—unstable people who may, in the weeks and months ahead, follow Roof’s murderous pattern. But the pattern is already in place, so the real question is: are we willing…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…your gift. Let’s say I’m sitting in church and they go, “If you have $500, come lay it on the altar—if you have $200, come lay it on the altar,” and they get all the way down to one dollar. If I literally do not have one dollar to my name, what has been communicated to me? That I don’t really matter to God, and so God is not going to bless me. It all ties into the same neoliberal ideology—that if you really want it, you would have it. If you don’t…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…Trump supporter) Dennis Prager headlined, “The Court Follows Its Heart and Completes the Secularization of America.” Completes the secularization of America? That was fast. The men who lead the Christian Right seem to have a poor sense of history and politics. And despite their self-proclaimed allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, they see the presidency as a position equivalent in power to the Roman emperor, with every candidate either an absolute…