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Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

We should all be grateful to Allesandra Stanley of the New York Times for having the wit to observe that there’s really nothing new, plot-wise, about the fantasy of divinities choosing to go slumming. As she puts it, “Ancient mythology is full of stories of gods donning disguise to mingle with mortals and test their loyalty—or chastity.” She finds multiple examples of this same basic conceit in modern fiction, drama, and film, only here it is pow…

How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck

By Joanna Brooks

Glenn Beck leans forward on his elbows. His voice hushes. His eyes grow red at the corners. He presses his lips together and clears his throat. He cannot speak. The tears fall, and just for a moment the brashest voice in American conservatism today falls silent. This is what happens when Beck tells the story of his 1999 conversion to Mormonism. “I was friendless, working in the smallest radio market I had ever worked in… a hopeless alcoholic, abu…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, would like you to know that she believes vaccines are beneficial, unless they’re not. In addition, she believes that she has not seen any evidence for a link between vaccinations and autism—which isn’t to say that the link does not exist, per se, just that she hasn’t personally witnessed it. If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Stein’s immunization equivocation started last week,…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

The big news of the week was Irish voters’ overwhelming “yes” vote on a proposal to add marriage equality to the country’s constitution. The lopsided nature of the vote in heavily Catholic Ireland – and the fact that Church officials were opposed by every political party — has encouraged plenty of speculation about what the vote means for the Church in Ireland and its opposition to LGBT equality globally. Alex White, the Irish government’s mini…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

When I first heard that a white supremacist opened fire on a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin a few weeks ago, I froze. My stomach lurched and my thoughts turned to the friends I’d made in the Sikh community through my work as an atheist and interfaith activist. In the wake of the horror I reached out to friends directly and logged on to Twitter to express my shock, outrage, disgust, and sadness—as a Millennial, I suppose you could say this…

Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

I just love stories about young people taking a stand for justice. Not much else gets the tears flowing for me more than a good story about some little kid figuring out that civil liberties is a guarantee in the Constitution that should apply to everyone, so if somebody’s suffering from bigotry or discrimination, then, gosh darn it, that kid’s going to do something about it. How can any American reading such stories not feel a little proud rush…

The Tebow Superbowl Ad: Offense, Defense, or Interference?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

I suppose it was inevitable, in its way. Tim Tebow’s remarkable gridiron successes, his imminent NFL draft, coupled with the biblical verses in his eye black—all of these things have made him a media phenomenon. It was probably inevitable that his family should enter that same business. The Tebow family has been a prominent force for Focus on the Family, an evangelical Christian lobby whose rights of free expression must be respected as intensely…

Taking Stock of Religion in Super Bowl 44

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

For those still undecided about the relations between sports and religion, here are a few brief recaps from Superbowl XLIV. In no significant order: -Besides the name of the winning team from New Orleans, a banner is held up at the very end of the show (as shown on CBS) saying, “Canonize Drew Brees.” -An advertisement for a new game, “Dante’s Inferno.” The game seems to have little to do with 14th-century theological literature, but everything to…

Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

By Levi McLaughlin

…priest at the Rinzai Zen temple Jionji in Rikuzentakata village is housing 69 refugees who were treated by doctors and nurses from the Japan Red Cross. Seventy to eighty percent of the town’s 8000 households were wiped out by the tsunami. Jodo Shinshu, Japan’s largest traditional Buddhist sect, has cancelled plans for the 750th memorial of sect founder Shinran. Instead, the Shinshu priesthood has transformed head temple Higashi Honganji in Kyoto…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote, premised on the “Big Lie” that voter fraud was behind President Joe Biden’s election. The former president and much of his party refused to concede the 2020 election loss, with most Congressional Republicans voting against ratification of the results, leading to the January 6th insurrection. The disagreement among Republicans seems not so mu…