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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…a saint,” though of course the mythological being was both. Angel spawn Among the most audacious and idiosyncratic of twentieth-century comics, the seventy-five issues of DC’s Preacher tell the narrative of Jesse Custer, a Texas minister possessed by a supernatural entity named Genesis born from the intercourse of an angel and a demon. With the assistance of, among others, an ancient Irish vampire named Cassidy who’s not so subtly based on the r…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…ted to Islam twelve years ago and is married to an Indian man. Though Jama Mosque is more inclusive of converts now than before, she doesn’t feel completely welcome in the Indian community. Her husband’s family has trouble accepting her and even tried to delay the couple’s marriage. A common perception exists of converts as less knowledgeable or authentic Muslims than those in the immigrant communities. My father struggled with this when teaching…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…murdered by a shotgun blast through the window of his study at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The crime was never solved. • December 12, 1935, New York City, New York. Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide. • April 27, 1936, Lincoln, Nebraska. Prof. J…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…insist is the only true, orthodox faith against heresies that also include Mormonism, the emergent church, paganism, and more. In my coverage of The Response, I talked to a woman whose blog post critical of the NAR from this perspective was taken off the American Family Association website. The AFA and other big religious right political operatives are not interested in the heresy hunters, though; they’re interested in the bodies that NAR types br…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…crisis in the first place. The denomination can say what it likes about being a bastion of inclusivity. The fact is, it’s not safe for LGBTQ+ people. And finding more elaborate ways of talking about the prevention of sexual misconduct isn’t about to change that….

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…re judges are hearing a case about whether or not church steeples can host mobile phone masts, since the masts might be used to relay porn. Whether one embraces, challenges, or rejects the use of digitized sacred texts and the technology used to support them, they are here to stay. Some will see digitized texts as “the same as it ever was,” simply delivered via a new medium, and preserved for future readers. Others wish to restrict the digital mul…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…r if the convenience of having a cell is worthwhile, given that one of its most common uses is to find out where my wife got to in Kohl’s. But it seems to me that focusing on the micro-trend of rich people opting out of the plugged-in lifestyle doesn’t really get at the heart of the issue. I think the Amish, of all people, have it right. It’s not so much about what you as an individual are doing or not doing, as the effect technology has on the co…

Those Cocky Secular Liberals!

By Sarah Posner

…te against LGBT people, who already have no civil rights protections under Kansas law. The Kansas bill is one of the more extreme of such “religious freedom” bills being introduced in state legislatures around the country, at the urging of national religious right organizations. Many of these bills are aimed at “protecting” the religious freedom rights of business owners, and, in the case of Kansas, government employees, who want the right to refu…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), John-Roger Hinkins died at 80. Raised Mormon, Hinkins was a high school teacher in Southern California when he discovered “soul consciousness.”He founded MSIA—pronounced “messiah”—in 1971, teaching one could achieve a totally positive state of being with the help of the Mystical Traveler Consciousness he embodied. MSIA attracted celebrity followers including Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, Huffington Post founde…