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A Former Christian Coalition Activist Tells All

By Sarah Posner

…at sounded very exotic.” Nearly twenty years later, White found herself in Mexico, the wife of a young man she met at church soon after she enrolled at Baylor University, where the two would work as missionaries for a controversial charismatic group, since disbanded, the Maranatha Christian Church. When the couple returned to Texas twelve years later with their two children, they arrived during the heyday of the Christian Coalition takeover of the…

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

By Jo Piazza

…that one of our designers found this incredible picture of a young nun in Mexico up on the top of this mountain that we literally all sighed together and said: “That’s the one!” Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I am a huge fan of Nick Kristof’s Half the Sky and I thought about the book a lot while I was writing. In the same way that he took women’s stories from around the world and used them to narrate a specifi…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

Goat Head Found in Brooklyn. Who Cares?

By Joseph Laycock

…ade by decapitating his neighbor’s goat. “And the newspaper,” he boasted, “listed it as cult activity!” The point of this story is that people sometimes do leave goat heads in strange places, but their motivations are usually juvenile and improvisational and not representative of a belief system. Furthermore, the media’s predictable response of sensationalizing these cases virtually ensures that severed goat heads will continue to be used by immat…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…very busy—too busy—but then I also retreat to this desert solitude in New Mexico. This has been a very hard time for me. It is so strange to be so hated by so many church leaders. However, I just had an incredible few weeks in South Africa. I met a lot of great people, saw a lot, and learned a lot about the thousands who gave their lives to struggle against apartheid. I spent a great day with Archbishop Tutu, who is one of my heroes and my friend…

Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

…y of Angels was also home to one of the strangest and most important evangelists of the 20th century, Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, a primitive radio god who faked her own kidnapping to cover up a tryst in Mexico. Given this history, the absence of religious landmarks is striking. It would have been easy enough to paste symbols of Los Angeles’s spiritual history into Her, shot mostly in Shanghai—but L.A. serves as more than a backdrop. It is a ph…

Bad Karma: Life Lessons From Earl

By Anthony B. Pinn

…e will use this principle to turn his life around. He puts together a long list of wrongs committed and begins the process of correcting for past, harmful behavior. The numerous awards won over four seasons suggest something of the show’s appeal. Earl, an unlikely convert to ethics of reconciliation, stumbles through various attempts to reconcile self-interest and the needs of others. The line between sacred and profane, “right” and “wrong,” is bl…

What Religious “Hostility” Looks Like

By Evan Derkacz

…find is focused on Christians (judging only, mind you, by the couple dozen listed on the website, since the PDF download of the entire list malfunctioned). So, assuming the remaining five-hundred something are largely or exclusively focused on hostility toward Christians, the survey would more accurately be called Christian Hostility in America (which really highlights the ambiguity in the survey’s title, I think); and 2) Given the auspicious timi…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…eaders Who Mattered Most in 2004,” and in 2005 the magazine had him on its list of “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Well-traveled, it sometimes seems that Warren is appearing everywhere at about the same time; from Africa to Washington, DC, from Europe to New York City, from YouTube to iTunes. Over the years, he has spoken at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harv…