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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…all town roots is the way they seem to merge, the territorial spiritual warfare of her churches phrased in secular terms through her channeling of Pegler. “Territorial spiritual warfare” is the idea, embraced by Palin’s pastors, that entire cities can be possessed by demons. Small towns, too, theoretically, but that’s not usually how it works. The first time I encountered it was at Ted Haggard’s New Life Church, in Colorado Springs. When I asked f…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…, their faith. Most Muslims in Panama live in the major cities of Panama City and Colón, with smaller numbers in other provincial cities. The Panamanian government does not collect information on its religious composition, but a 2009 international report estimated the number of Muslims at around 24,000, comprising less than one percent of the country’s population. Most are of Lebanese, Palestinian or Indian descent. Though small, Panama’s Muslim…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…A 16-year-old student was shot in the leg by a 15-year old classmate at a city high school. • March 4, 1958, New York City, New York. A 17-year-old student shot a boy in the Manual Training High School. • May 1, 1958, Massapequa, New York. A 15-year-old high school freshman was shot and killed by a classmate in a washroom of the Massapequa High School. • September 24, 1959, New York City, New York. Twenty-seven men and boys and an arsenal were se…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…ations see them as valuable foot soldiers) is in the “Women: Weapons of Warfare” conference I covered last year. I think people outside this world really underestimate how many different personalities there are in this world, and how their audiences access them through numerous venues: television networks like the Trinity Broadcasting Network, GOD TV, and DayStar; numerous conferences across the country, and other multimedia sources. Just as peopl…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…a random sample size and therefore isn’t statistically representative. The number of individuals reporting victimization in Episcopal spaces is alarming nonetheless. However, I would argue the data is more likely to under- than to overestimate the scope of the abuse that occurs. To see why, the survey results must be interpreted in light of the Episcopal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+…

Compassion for AZ Shooter?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d the deaths of six other people. When I first heard about the violence in Tucson my heart sank, and I began to wonder what was the entire point of trying to spread hope and love in a world so determined to stamp out both? It’s certainly not the first time I’ve had that thought. The descent of political discourse in this country to its lowest common denominator, and the language of violence that pervades both political and religious conversation h…

Mental Health is a Spiritual and Religious Issue

By Joanna Brooks

…any kind of a turnaround in American life or public policy. The people of Tucson are trying to build from tragedy the beginnings of a “civil discourse movement,” even as the “job-killing” health care repeal act makes its way to Congress and Sarah Palin cries “blood libel” rather than demonstrate the humility and capacity for self-examination that is a requisite of true leadership. Stricter gun control regulations? Slim chance. Improved mental hea…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…plugged-in lifestyle doesn’t really get at the heart of the issue. I think the Amish, of all people, have it right. It’s not so much about what you as an individual are doing or not doing, as the effect technology has on the community: Why not make life easier and just put [a phone] in the house? “What would that lead to?” another Amish man asked me. “We don’t want to be the kind of people who will interrupt a conversation at home to answer a tel…