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Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…ucky, ordered the removal of two Confederate monuments in that city. On Sunday, the day after the violence, as details were emerging about the young woman killed and the white nationalist terrorist who killed her, protests for the removal of Confederate monuments took place Sunday in Baltimore and San Antonio, calling these memorials to white supremacism for what they were—and what the “Unite the Right” crowds reveled in their being. Just as no Am…

Houston Megapastor to have his “Opening Day” at Yankee Stadium

By Jonathan L. Walton

This weekend Joel Osteen, pastor of the mammoth Lakewood Church in Houston, will bring his gospel of hope, happiness and spiritual healing to an anticipated 50,000 tri-state residents at the recently unveiled Yankee Stadium. Author of New York Times bestseller Your Best Life Now, Osteen is more known for his pearly white grin than the prosperity gospel that he inherited from his father, prominent Word of Faith preacher and Lakewood’s founding pas…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…o walk the same path that the eighteen-year-old Brown took on that fateful day in the summer of 2014. Both in their 20s and born in St. Louis, Tyler and T-Dubb-O became engaged politically after the death of Mike Brown, putting themselves on the front line of the uprising. They soon started Hands Up United, a grassroots organization that fights for the liberation of black and brown residents through civil disobedience and education. The network ha…

New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…het Lance Walnau writes that there could be a “Trump landslide on election day,” but that absentee ballots could turn this victory into defeat. The uncertainty of a dubious or contested election outcome, he believes, would lead “street units” of Antifa and Black Lives Matter to make an “open assault on America,” and he further believes that the Supreme Court might “end up appointing Trump as president during a period of unparalleled national chaos…

Newtown Tragedy: The Horror of No Future

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ett Till and four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama. The children of the day care center in Oklahoma City. Our enduring image from that dark day is a fireman, soaked in blood, carrying a baby on the cover of the magazines. Youth move us because they bring to the light the existential horror of no future. Katniss is right. It makes no rational sense to bring a child into a world like this one. Her words will be prophetic, as her state destroys ch…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ive. “New Forms of Shared Awareness” I couldn’t possibly have expected the day to offer much more than a thumbs up from one of leading thinkers and activists on education, spirituality, and social change. But it turned out that the Pope seems to have cribbed much of my commentary on his 2010 letter on digital social media. Whereas that letter focused on the special responsibilities of priests to engage believers and seekers in new online media out…

Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So

By Gary Laderman

…s been 2012 and Battle: Los Angeles. The list goes on and on: Independence Day, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Day after Tomorrow, and far too many others to name. Why this fixation? No doubt multiple reasons exist, including America’s love of violence (what could provide more awe-inspiring scenes of violence than movies depicting the apocalypse?); America’s need for heroes and villains (these films are generally framed as good v. evil, even i…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…—proof of Smith’s prophetic powers—was more important than its contents. Today, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emphasizes scripture reading more than ever; but even now, Mormonism is not primarily about the Book of Mormon. This sacred text would indeed be a strange foundation for a religion. It’s a convoluted, quasi-historical chronology of prehistoric America, a narrative summary of men with arcane names (fathers, warriors, gener…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…lies about election fraud, driving the ideas that motivated the crowd that day, have suffered the least. And they continue to spin their stories, driving the crowds toward another day. Of course, the greatest consequences of the insurrection on Jan 6, 2021, in Washington DC, were felt by the five who died, and their loved ones who remain. Of those five, one has stood out in the stories that followed. Capitol Police shot Ashli Babbitt, an air force…

A Daily Utopia: Creating Our Moral Values Every Day

By Anna Peterson

…calness. But utopianism seems, by definition, to be disconnected from everyday life. Putting those two themes together—utopias and everyday life—seemed a way to talk about the potentially radical dimensions of our ordinary practices and values. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That ethics is not disconnected from ordinary activities. This means a couple of things. First, almost nothing we do is “value neutral.” We can’t sep…