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The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…mattered. When the National Association of Broadcasters began a campaign in 1939 to make listeners more “radio conscious,” it fell to the 29-year-old former newspaper reporter to raise awareness of the nature of the devices the nation had invited into its homes. With an odd, dramatic, and unabashedly lyrical piece called “Seems Radio Is Here to Stay,” Corwin took his audience on a guided tour of the airwaves, creating at once a rough primer on how…

A Head Full of Monsters: American History as Horror Show

By W. Scott Poole

…ok out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Well, on my previous 10 questions I said “anything by Stephen Prothero” and that’s still true. But let me mention the work of a fellow Baylor author, Douglas Cowan. A religious studies scholar who has explored both the horror and sci fi genres, his books Sacred Terror and Sacred Space point us in exciting new directions. What’s your next book? Working on a short book about the 1950s horror hos…

Occupy the Greek Orthodox Church

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, have been designed to insist that the people are paying more than their fair share, whereas the banks are not paying anything at all. Whether you prefer the word ‘default’ or the phrase ‘debt restructuring,’ a more just outcome would be one in which the banks absorb some of this pain as well, by agreeing to be repaid fifty cents on the euro for all the bad loans that they made. That is what’s in the works this week. But something new and unprece…

So You’ve Decided to Run for Senate Against a Pro Wrestling Mogul

By Dan Mathewson

…easingly vocal criticism of wrestling’s morally questionable product in the 1990s, Runnels would air spoof commercials during WWE television broadcasts as a spokesman for the fictitious “Evangelists Against Television, Movies, and Entertainment” (or: EAT ME). During these ads, Runnels would criticize wrestling’s increasingly X-rated storylines and encourage the audience to engage in healthy activities like Bible reading. In the eyes of wrestling’s…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…e story a pragmatic political organization,” says Salazar Ugarte. The PRI’s 1970s Sexual Revolution Could the PRI’s opportunistic style shift in favor of women’s rights? The move wouldn’t be unprecedented. Under PRI President Luis Echeverría’s leadership, the government unabashedly and successfully introduced the country to contraception in the 1970s. Echeverría believed that, without family planning, Mexico’s birth rate would cripple its economic…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…agedy. It’s a very American story, obviously—but the aftermath of September 11 has affected the whole world. Do you think audiences outside America can connect with your story? I do. As you say, what happened to America has affected so much of the rest of the world—both because of America’s response, and because of the debates about and within Islam that September 11 prompted. America, and the ideals it’s meant to represent, obviously cast a dispr…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…rael’s basketball league is attracting Jewish American players skipped over by the NBA. Florida Marlins baseball manager Jack McKeon prays to St. Thérèse during the national anthem before every game. Do you speak the Christian lingo? The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for missile launch commanders that relied heavily on Christian doctrines. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit a set of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus that have hi…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…his information on any website’ In Warsaw, Rosik and the others filled the air of the windowless conference room with their “faith-based” pseudoscience unquestioned. Here, they were offered space to spread disinformation about conversion practices disguised as therapeutic methods, and here, they were praised for it and listened to by a rapt audience prepared to spread these ideas in universities, clinics, practices, youth centers, and the psycholo…