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Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem

By M. Cooper Minister

…te to pass legislation restricting gender affirming care to youth. These bills follow a precedent set by Arkansas in 2021, where legislators passed the first bill of its kind. Although vetoes and court injunctions have permanently blocked Arkansas’s ban and temporarily blocked similar measures in some states, these bans are now active in many states. And, while the legislation isn’t generally couched in religious language, these bans impose a gend…

Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology

By Christopher Douglas

…ich many passengers have been raptured, while the latter picks up in the following months, with Rayford (now played by Sorbo) and others becoming born-again Christians and uniting as the Tribulation Force to fight the Antichrist. The 2023 adaptation updates its topical currency with references to “fake news” and “all souls matter,” collapsing the post-Rapture future under the Antichrist administration and the pre-Rapture now of cultural warfare. F…

My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me

By Joseph Laycock

…cause me to worship the devil, it suddenly dawned on me that adults were fallible: They ran the schools, the churches, and the police, but they didn’t always think rationally or know what they were talking about. After that, I never saw the social order in the same way again. I became the sort of teenager who has “a problem with authority.” It wasn’t until I encountered the sociology of religion—especially thinkers like Peter Berger—that I could b…

Why Does the Pope Love This Trippy Dystopian Novel from 1907?

By Gordon Haber

…his time, and his dark vision of a world destroyed by secular humanism still resonates with a small but loyal following. In a 2013 homily, Pope Francis spoke of Lord of the World “almost as though it were a prophecy.” And what did Benson prophesy? A catalogue of early 20th century right-wing fears. In Lord of the World, religion has been subsumed to a kind of hyper-rational communism, the professions have been nationalized, and euthanasia and sui…

Wrestling and Religion: We Know It’s Fake and We Don’t Care

By Jess Peacock

…remise of this “somewhat-mostly-accurate educational parody film,” as he calls it, is that what people think professional wrestling is, it’s not. Its rich storytelling and epic, almost mythological, canon is generally obscured by that ever present question from baffled non-fans, “You know it’s all fake, right?” I’m not going to lie – I absolutely love professional wrestling. Since I first laid my adolescent eyes upon the masked Mr. Wrestling II on…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…two, LGBTQ issues have erupted with increasing frequency at evangelical colleges and universities, including George Fox University where professor Michael Bevis recently was more-or-less forced to resign earlier this month after he refused to stay in his heterosexual marriage and “get therapy” after coming out as a gay man. A February incident at Wheaton College in Illinois where someone threw an apple at a student who dared to question publicly…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

“Spirituality may not speak to you at all,” Lisa Miller writes near the beginning of her new book, The Spiritual Child. “But it is foundational to your child.” Miller is a psychologist at Columbia University whose research focuses on how personal spiritual experiences shape the development of children and adolescents. The Spiritual Child Lisa Miller St. Martin’s Press (May 5, 2015) In The Spiritual Child, Miller draws on decades of research to ar…

What Should Truly Disturb Us About Game of Thrones’ Child Sacrifice

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…m to burn Shireen for the “Lord of the Light” so that her “king’s blood” will work its magic and grant him a military victory. In a brutal scene, tiny Shireen, unsuspecting of her fate until the final moments, is tied to a pyre and set aflame. She dies screaming for her mother and father to save her. The denizens of the Internet are now united in their hatred for Stannis. Slate has declared him this week’s Worst Person in Westeros. It was arguably…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…ing information, language and praise regarding Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, with Pushaw commenting that “Libs of Tiktok has opened my eyes on this.” The claims that have been spread about Boston Children’s Hospital and other clinics that care for trans children and teenagers by “Libs of TikTok,” run by right-wing activist Chaya Raichik, have been proven false time and time again—though, much like conspiracies about Covid or the 2020 election, t…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…Utah, Gotta find a private line. ~ “Operator” In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented a device that could represent accurately the human voice. It thoroughly, irreversibly altered our interconnection, enabling us to talk to another person across an enormous distance with the sonic clarity of being in the same room. A special series on religion and culture produced in collaboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern Ca…