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The No-Selfie Doctrine: A Theological New Year’s Resolution

By Richard Amesbury

…ut they say one of the main things about religious ecstasy is a feeling of selflessness—that you yourself disappear. I feel that when I read Dostoyevsky.” I am less familiar with religious ecstasy than I am with the dark night of the soul. As my own Grand Inquisitor, I spend a lot of time berating myself; mine is a sort of auto-auto-da-fé. The accusatory voice in my head is cleverer than I am—a skilled practitioner of the critical, deconstructive…

“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now

By Ed Simon

…mber of casualties is hard to estimate (and largely depends on the ideological position of the source you are consulting). The numbers have been estimated between 2,000 to close to 70,000. One fact that is known for certain though—in Arles, downriver from Lyon, it was impossible to drink the water from the Rhone for three months, since it was so polluted with the remains of the dead. Now, more than four hundred years later, blood has been spilled…

Pray-In On Capitol Hill for DREAM Act

By Sarah Posner

…the end of the lame duck session. Rabbi David Saperstein, Director and Counsel of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said in a statement: Time is running out for the Senate to act on the American DREAM Act. Time is running out to extend the American dream to young people who were brought to America as undocumented immigrant children, and who have since grown up, stayed in school, and been law-abiding contributors to our communities. Th…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…lits of cheap sparkling wine while their tuxedoed companions swilled the local brew, Budweiser—that, too, a faded American icon, sold off in 2008 to the Belgium-based multinational, InBev. No, of course, these were not the protesters who have begun to appear in more and more American cities, but keepers of the once-stable base of a certain version of the fabled American Dream: wedding parties. These were queuing up for photos on raised pedestals i…

Dear Timothy Keller: The “Evangelical” Problem isn’t Pollsters

By Jessica Johnson

In response to the public identity crisis voiced by some white evangelicals since Donald Trump’s victory and Roy Moore’s loss—elections in which roughly 80% of white evangelical voters supported each candidate despite multiple sexual assault accusations against each—Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, took to the New Yorker to offer a rose-tinted historical gloss to the turmoil and looks to a multicult…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ous on its face, is not terribly surprising, and is in many respects a logical outgrowth of the eschatology of a wide swath of the Christian Right. But what has been most striking to me is the media’s high-profile use of the term “Christian militia.” This suggests to me that a tectonic shift may be underway in our underlying culture and politics as we continue to struggle with how to acknowledge the realities of actual and threatened religiously-m…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…and Storkels to objectivity we audience members need to fine-tune our critical perspective—as participants in visual culture, we need to understand our own culpability the brutality we see in Fight Church, whatever our opinion of the morality of MMA. To our collective detriment, it has become the default of arenas where ideological conflict and entertainment blur, including news programming, to stage objectivity as simply the presentation of oppos…

“Muscular Christianity” Not to Blame For Driscoll: A Response

By Jessica Johnson

…s, the sight of security guards monitoring the entryway with the impassive self-importance of club bouncers was routine. The church’s foreboding black box exterior contrasted with the soft contours of its cream-colored lobby; further inside, the sanctuary’s dim lighting and vast stage loaded with high end sound equipment and beat up guitars affected the atmosphere of a nightclub. Large screens surrounding the amphitheater issued pronouncements con…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…ow multiple decades ago. Among the memorable wonders was a small group who called themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. On and off over the decades, I have thought of those drag nuns, rollerskating along the Castro, throwing flowers into the crowd (and kisses) and hooting and hollering with the best of them. Years later, when I co-edited Que(e)rying Religion with Gary David Comstock, I really wanted to have a picture of those nuns on the…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…n groups, palming thick books of LDS scripture, wearing tupenu—traditional calf-length linen wraparound skirts–with their white shirts and ties. Gauntlets of young locals in dark suits line walkways on the north side of Temple Square, cheerfully singing hymns from the screens of their iPhones or from green-backed hymnals, while a clutch of protestors—evangelical Christians, mostly, the same familiar, ragged gang materializing every conference—take…