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

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ause they’re not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it’s the worst thing we’ve ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction. There’s also something shitty about that. So instead of saying, ‘How could you do this to somebody you know and care about?’ maybe when it’s happening to somebody we don’t know so well, maybe then it should hit us all a bit harder.” In other wo…

Joined at the Hip: White Nationalist Christianity and Donald Trump

By Peter Laarman

…to church no more makes you a Christian than being in a garage makes you a car.” The main takeaway of the Douthat column, however, and the bit that truly boggles the mind, drastically undercuts the overall thrust of his argument. This is where Douthat concedes that a significant number of the Good Christians have, in fact, gone over to Trump because they feel that the liberals have taken their country away from them. Oh, my goodness gracious! Dout…

Google Data Reveal Poor Have An Interest Above “Dark” Religion

By Peter Laarman

…with diabetes, blood pressure, diet, and “severe itching.” Finding a used car and learning about Social Security disability benefits also matter to this group. And yes, guns. Compared to searches about these practical matters, searches related to spiritual things come in a poor second. So what do we have here, at bottom? Sociologically, is it really a surprise that hard-pressed people facing multiple health issues are searching for information re…

In the Age of Megachurches, Sometimes Less Is More

By Richard Flory

…ller neighborhood churches that have minimal to zero parking. In L.A., the car capital of the world, this suggests that at the time these churches were established people walked or drove the several blocks from their homes to church. The scale of the buildings themselves prohibited these neighborhood churches from becoming big enough to annoy their neighbors with an influx of churchgoing outsiders. What we’re finding is a renewed emphasis on the l…

Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

By Elijah Siegler

…s Mannix does his job, he encounters various hybrids, including mermaids (ScarJo plays one, Channing Tatum sings about them) and battling twin gossip columnists, whose names, Thora and Thessaly, perhaps suggest Norse and Greek mythologies (I noticed only because Mannix asked each of the pair about the meaning of their names). More importantly, as Mannix goes from film set to film set, from one amazing set piece to the next, he encounters various h…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ago, the same prelate declared homosexuality to be a threat to the family. Cardinal Tumi [Cardinal Christian Tumi, the retired archbishop of Douala] even declared that homosexuality was a “threat to the human race.” Catholic lawyers depicted homosexuality to be a clinical pathology that should attract the attention of different hospitals…. This Church wants more than ever to set Cameroonians against each other, ignoring its mission to promote love…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…hile that corner of the night sky near NGC 6809 is still pulsing out prime numbers. –Rome, December, 2055 _________ The article that may one day be written about religious responses to E.T. will of course bear little resemblance to the fiction above. But, religion aside, the possibility of confirming alien life is less remote than you might think. On May 21, 2014, Dan Werthimer, scientific director of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Life) at…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…, and was first seen protesting the Bellevue, Nebraska clinic of Dr. LeRoy Carhart in 2000. Carhart’s clinic and family have long faced extremist violence, suffering arsons at both the clinic and their family farm, where nearly 20 horses and other animals were burned to death in 1991, along with the house and barn. But after Dr. Tiller’s murder in 2009, Carhart’s Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska (ACCON) became the chief target of anti…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…he eruption into American popular culture—on LPs, in movies, and through a car stereo’s speakers—of a Calvinist feeling, a lonesome sound, that had, by all rights, been buried at least a century before. Is there anything you had to leave out? Oh my, yes! But, you know, “had to” is a funny thing. No one demanded that I excise huge portions of the manuscript. It’s just that I had tons of “information,” and I tried to do the right thing by all of it,…

Conservative Catholics Try to Domesticate Laudato Si

By Patricia Miller

…o join him in conversation.’ Where Francis demanded a a swift reduction in carbon emissions, Wuerl talked about the beginning of a long process of absorbing what he had to say. ‘He is not saying to individuals, you must do this,’ said the cardinal. ‘That doesn’t appear in the document. He is saying, here is the moral frame of reference.’ The bishops’ lack of enthusiasm for the encyclical isn’t surprising given that the topic of the environment was…