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What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…e Pussy Riot trial. As Masha Lipton of The New Yorker noted, during the trial all three Pussy Riot members were found to be suffering from so-called psychological disorders, marked by phrases like: “a proactive approach to life,” “a drive for self-fulfillment,” “stubbornly defending their opinion,” “inflated self-esteem,” “inclination to opposition behavior,” and “propensity for protest reactions.” A few months after the DC trip, both Hilarion and…

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

By Karen E. Park

…h to the Boy Scouts. Flanked by the miserable-looking First Lady and the comically aghast Easter Bunny, Trump spoke to the children about the booming economy and the “$700 billion going into our military”—not topics usually favored by the kindergarten set. He also seemed to forget the name of the White House saying “there really is no name for it.” Though it made great late-night fodder for comics like Seth Meyers, who variously described it as “w…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…probably construct a different Jesus. His Jesus would be colorless—maybe a flash of light—because of his belief in colorblindness and his useful colorblindness rhetoric. I want to close out with some final thoughts about Harvey and Blum’s engaging book. It seems to me that Paul’s comment about social class is crucial for understanding how Jesus— to turn a phrase—has been “deployed” in American culture. On the one hand, he is the faithful friend…

Prophetic Counterterrorism: Avoiding the Insanity of Repeated Failure

By Eric Reitan

…he scope and intensity of violence inevitably harms innocents—what is euphemistically called “collateral damage.” That Old Insanity The predictable result is moral outrage among members of this broader community to which the terrorists belong. And that outrage is used by the terrorists to fuel their propaganda, to make their ideology of hate increasingly attractive. And so a larger percentage of the targeted community becomes radicalized. More peo…

Gay Republicans Question Conservative Credentials

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mily Research Council on the attack, and not just against GOProud, but the almighty Norquist as well, noting that “he is well known for his questionable affiliations (from being a middle man for convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, profiting from the oppressed Northern Mariana Islands to partnering with Poker Players Alliance to advocate for legislation that ultimately taxes the Internet) and also for his disdain of social conservative issues like li…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…ct probably inevitably means that we will. We also seem to have various chemicals in our mind that when activated give us visions of and/or feelings of transcendence. And transhumanism is certainly all about transcending the natural, although it’s not because [transhumanists] believe in a force greater than physical and biological reality. A lot of people in the transhumanist world lean pretty heavily towards evolutionary psychology with its conco…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…rocess, and all that that process implies. Bolstered by appearances from seminal historians of early American culture and literature like Bernard Bailyn, John Demos, and Jill Lepore, the documentary doesn’t shirk its responsibilities in presenting the most pertinent scholarship, even if it does engage the rhetoric of hagiography in its depictions of Bradford and other Plymouth leaders. As the literary critic Kathleen Donegan says in the documentar…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…For example, the UK Asian Underground, the US/Indian Asian Massive [as the MIDIval PunditZ consider themselves to be part of Asian Massive], and the Indian Cyber Mehfil groups are all in communication with one another and often work together on projects. Is there something similar with TQ emerging? BU: Not yet, just some contact with British Asian geezers like Asian Dub Foundation, Fun Da Mental and Alien Kulture. There are Taqwacore groups in Sco…

Release the Torture Photos Now

By Hussein Rashid

…and Pres. Obama said the decision to prosecute is up to the Attorney General. He also announced they would release the photos. I argued with a friend of mine that Pres. Obama was seeding the ground for a real national discussion on this topic. He could not lead the charge, no matter how just, because it would be spun as being partisan. He was setting up a situation where we the people would lead; this was not going to be party against party but A…

Alabama’s Yoga Ban Is Part of the Christian Right’s War on Pluralism

By Manisha Sunil

…ious endorsement. As critics have pointed out, the denial of this educational opportunity is in many ways a vestige of colonialism. But these points, at least, can be debated in good faith. Here on RD, for instance, Dr. Candy Gunther Brown wrote on whether Hinduism is inextricable with yoga. While I believe it can be practiced on a secular level, with an instructive—not coercive—education on its roots, there is a critical conversation to be had to…