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Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ory.” One wonders whether the proliferation of unsorted images—on our smartphones and in proprietary clouds—might undermine our ability to let go of the past and construct more meaningful long-term memories. More than a mere problem of accuracy in storage and retrieval, memory requires the skillful exercise of selective judgment. It requires meaningful participation in decisions about what and how to remember, as well as what and how to forget. Th…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…are often harder to discern than they used to be. All this makes a lot of Americans, and especially older Americans, profoundly uncomfortable.” Of course they are uncomfortable, and even afraid. Order is always based on boundaries that seem to be immutable. Anyone who makes boundaries look flexible and porous becomes a symbol of chaos. Didn’t you write essays back in the 1960s about the “hippies” as a symbol of social chaos? I wrote about their f…

Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology

By Christopher Douglas

…the former leaves off with Cage as protagonist Rayford Steele landing the plane from which many passengers have been raptured, while the latter picks up in the following months, with Rayford (now played by Sorbo) and others becoming born-again Christians and uniting as the Tribulation Force to fight the Antichrist. The 2023 adaptation updates its topical currency with references to “fake news” and “all souls matter,” collapsing the post-Rapture f…

Putin Escalates Ukraine Invasion to ‘Cosmic War’ — But There is Hope

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…can be abandoned as quickly as it was embraced. Or, in some cases, it’s possible to retain a notion of cosmic war but detach it from earthly struggles. This happens only when reality sets in, when it’s clear that the cosmic struggle isn’t going to succeed on an earthly plane and there are other options for survival. The hope is that Putin will realize that his imagined metaphysical war is a fantasy, or that it need not apply to his territorial amb…

Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade

By Carmen Celestini

…iculations of nationalism, women were portrayed as the ones who protected “American values” of family, gender roles, morality, and religion. In Caldwell’s articles, and in the rhetoric of much of today’s conservative movement, it was America’s abandonment of God and embrace of LGBTQ2SA communities, feminism, and effeminate men, that opened the door for the communist/socialist infiltration. Caldwell’s advice was to “treat your son, from the very ba…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…e detailed an account of how Texas’s abortion ban forced a woman to take a plane to Colorado for care after her water broke at only 19 weeks, well before viability. Thankfully, the woman was able to afford and plan the trip. If the fear of violating an internal hospital policy can cause doctors to withhold medical care from their patients, the fear of criminal prosecution will have a far more disastrous effect. After Roe, a physician’s medical int…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressive Catholic women left the Church by filing the requisite papers that relieved them of contributing church taxes. Four are…

11 Top RD Stories of the Year: Because in 2020 Religion Went to 11

By The Editors

…About ‘Chosenness’, Andre E. Key Over the past week, two prominent African-American celebrities have been condemned for promoting anti-Semitism because of their belief that Black people are the “true” Hebrews, and that there exists a conspiracy of world domination by Jews of European… READ MORE Go to top 7. QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?, Amarnath Amarsingam and Marc-André Argen…

A New, Softer Prosperity Gospel Still Can’t Deliver On Its Promises of Health and Wealth

By Verdell A. Wright

…s Royces, “Money Cometh to You” conferences, or Creflo Dollar asking for a plane. Instead, prosperity preachers offer lifestyle management, paths to financial success, and encouragement to remain positive in spite of challenges. In 2013’s Blessed, Kate Bowler describes these gentler takes on prosperity theology as trending toward positive thinking and Christian self-help. She describes the soft prosperity gospel as “therapeutic and emotive, a way…

Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…tactic. Our enemy is not “terror” because terror is a state of mind and as Americans we refuse to live in fear. Nor do we describe our enemy as “jihadists” or “Islamists” because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenant of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women, and children. The first part clearly echoes my analysis of the president’s speech….