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Necessary Sacrifice: Sundance, Mormon Movies, and the Race to Oscar Night

By Kathryn Lofton

…u? Do you? We do. We need to see it, to watch the bowling pin make cranial contact, to see the rape, dimly, to track the seepage of another’s blood. We need it, too, as we sit in our swivel chairs, shuttling our computer mouse over the Web site crawl, onto our next tale of true crime dullness. We must want to imagine Nixzmary as she died, or to picture a face marred by a brother’s bullet. All of this is our striving effort to do anything, anything…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ut in general it is fair to say that ISIS’ days of territorial control are numbered. But ISIS has never been a movement that’s defined solely by territorial control. The enormous cyber network of participants in online chats on Twitter and Telegram, and the global audience for the slick online publications such as Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah have constituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Calipha…

The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See

By Frederick Clarkson

…health and well being, including food, medical care, and necessary social services. PHR found that the Mugabe government has withheld food aid, seed, and fertilizer to rural provinces in order to starve political opponents; that the regime nationalized and then withheld routine support for municipal water and sewer systems from cities that elected political opponents; that the health care infrastructure and the economy itself is nearing utter col…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…-theological works of the 20thcentury. With that, please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions, concerns, or invitations to discuss this with a larger group, at www.johnslattery.com. Citations of major quotes from Teilhard: “Do the yellows…”: Günther Schiwy, Teilhard de Chardin: sein Leben und seine Zeit. 2. (München: Kösel, 1981): 105. “I hate nationalism…” : Günther Schiwy, Teilhard de Chardin: sein Leben und seine Zeit. 2. (München: Kösel…

Smashing Our Idols: A Response from Evangelical Leader David Gushee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…right rejects gays and lesbians. A commenter on that post encouraged me to contact Gushee and ask if his opinion had changed. I contacted Gushee who was gracious enough to respond and offer his thoughts. He was also kind enough to give me permission to share some of his email in this essay. My starting point is an evangelical Christian identity and 15 years in leadership in the evangelical community. That community begins with a very high view of…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…o inaccurate. As I said, I plan to go for iftar on Sunday and get some eye contact. Now that the speaker volume has been adjusted, I must say I’m in love with this recitation. No, I’m not kidding. Really. It is actually better than the al-Qushayri mp3 player. Don’t get me wrong. I am still so grateful for having that. Three days ago I figured out that I can plug it into the USB port in my car and listen to Qur’an as I run my errands. Yep, another…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…grandchildren, neighbor’s children, and any other kid they might come into contact with. In his words, “it doesn’t matter who the children are. Recognize you can disciple them.” Biblical worldview Barna then sits down with Tony Perkins and Marc Nuttle, a longtime evangelical political strategist, to expand upon the importance of a biblical worldview. Tony remarks that promoting and spreading biblical worldviews is of utmost importance. Indeed, tha…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…tly non-affiliated citizens, the United States began to get religion in the 1800s. The latter half of the century saw a dramatic rise of right-wing Christian movements that lobbied for Sabbath “blue laws,” the prohibition of alcohol, prayer and bible teaching in schools, immigration bans, and, most egregiously to Gage, the call for a constitutional amendment that would rewrite the First Amendment and eliminate the separation of church and state. A…

Shopping for Your Kids, Bioethically Speaking

By Arri Eisen

…ons in the first paragraph: go to a Web site that deals in eggs and sperm, contact the brokers therein, pay for the ‘best’ eggs and sperm you can afford from the best sources (‘best’ as determined by things like the jobs and grades of those whose sperm and eggs you are ‘using’), find a fertility clinic, pay the clinic to mix the eggs and sperm and put the resulting fertilized eggs into a surrogate mom (found, for example, at the Center for Surroga…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uardian of the person with whom they are accused of having same-sex sexual contact or is in a position of “authority over” them. The news agency further reported the measure is nearly identical to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act the country’s Constitutional Court overturned last month on a technicality. “This bill is part of the rising tide of homophobia in many African nations, whose government leaders are working to deny the rights of their LGBT…