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Confessions of a Former Gun-Worshipper

By Joanna Brooks

…n?—has made me think more seriously about the reverence in which guns are held in this country. It’s something I’ve known intellectually, of course. I’ve read my Richard Slotkin. I know, as he writes in Gunfighter Nation (1992) that one of our greatest national myths holds that “violence is an essential and necessary part of the process through which American society was established and through which its democratic values are defended and enforced…

Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

By Chrissy Stroop

…banned from teaching in schools because they are supposedly disproportionately likely to be pedophiles and are therefore a threat to children. Unfortunately, in Russia such a rash legal initiative, based on views that have been entirely repudiated by actual science, is not outside the realm of possibility—and you can bet Cameron knows it. Cameron is among those made-in-America anti-LGBT activists who are exporting the US culture wars (their cause…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…pecter haunts the narrative—for four decades. I’ve used it to teach about religious belief in college classrooms for more than 15 years. I love the story. I’ve all but memorized it. In an era of heightened political suspicion, argument, and even violence, Charles M. Schulz’s allegory has became about truth, falsehood, and stubborn belief in fake stories. It asks not just about faith and doubt, but also about how we can manage to live with people w…

You’re Crazy

By Daniel Schultz

…cedure. Complications can result, yes. So can problems in other areas, as well as regrets. But people take reasonable, well-informed chances with their health all the time. A doctor acquaintance elected to treat his testicular cancer with surgery alone, since radiation or chemotherapy would have damaged his immune system, putting him out of work for a considerable stretch. He lost the bet, and the cancer came back. I’m sure he would have been more…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…n the midst of his tour, Magnificent Coloring World, he sold out the U.S. Cellular field, the former name of his hometown Chicago White Sox’s stadium. All the while his personal faith was at the center. The almost-24-year-old is the epitome of the young black millennial aesthetic. Born after Bill Clinton was inaugurated as president, he grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the Chatham neighborhood. The son of an aide to Barack Obama and Chicago…

Huckabee Launches Videos to Teach Kids About American Exceptionalism

By Lauri Lebo

…non-denominational in nature and can be enjoyed by families with diverse religious beliefs. Huckabee recently said that all Americans should be forced to listen to pseudo-historian David Barton at gunpoint. While his name doesn’t appear on the list of the company’s “master historians,” Huckabee is clearly following Barton’s template where everything is spelled out in terms of good versus evil and anything in between is simply airbrushed from hist…

Disaster Theology: Blame and Powerlessness in Japan

By Clark Strand

…Certainly. Does it strengthen our resolve to develop an ever better understanding of seismology? You bet. Do these guarantee that, going forward into an age of accelerating climate change and rapidly depleting oil reserves, we won’t take one hit after another to our most deeply-held belief as modern people: that we can do a better job of running the planet than the planet can? No. There is no guarantee whatsoever that we will emerge from this cen…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…readers do not know, including, for example, the important work of Nurit Peled-Elhanan and her book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. The myth of what Palestinians actually learn about Israel and Israelis juxtaposed with what Israeli Jews learn about “Arabs,” Palestinians, and the “territories” is debunked in Peled-Elhanan’s work. It’s unfortunate that Blumenthal often gets details wrong. Some aren’t especia…

Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value

By Daniel Schultz

…od, and that political authority therefore has the duty of recognizing and promoting the true religion.” In plain English: the government is responsible for enforcing social norms based in religious faith. Given the hard-line separation of church and state in France, this isn’t a perfect fit; the protests were directed at the church, rather than any political authority, after all. But it’s a tantalizing angle worth drawing out for further explorat…

Taking the Right-Wing Echo Chamber to the Halls of Congress

By Lauri Lebo

…al exam in AP history and gets at least a C on the test. I’d be willing to bet a sizable amount of money she can’t. Actually, I’m just amazed Christine O’Donnell wasn’t on her list. Bachmann’s suggestions shows just how tightly sealed the right-wing echo chamber has become. While the new conservative freshman don’t appear to be the kind of politicians who would need schooled on the proper Republican talking points, Bachmann’s taking no chances, as…