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The Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’

By Leah Pannell

…Hamilton play on a loop in my head. The revolutionaries are with me in my car and on my runs, and as a black woman fighting against injustice, they remind me how lucky I am to be alive right now. It’s the soundtrack of my life. Consider what it means for a group of students to sit in the White House and—in the presence of the first black president and first lady—hear from people of color who tell the origin story of this nation eight times a week…

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…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…smoke, he said the two were comparable with respect to particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and polycyclic hydrocarbons. Temples and the people visiting them have several alternatives that can help reduce the risk from incense smoke. In their paper, Ho and his coauthors write that “visitors may decrease the number of incense sticks burned and period of stay at temples.” In my travels, I did visit temples that tried to suggest limits on how many in…

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ctually pretty beautiful. Jesus responds to that telling him to touch his scars and tells him, “You’re right, I do have these scars.” It seems to me that Thomas is much more insightful. I read him as breaking a cultural taboo of our modern time, which is asking: “Tell me about your scars.” We don’t want to know the bad things that have happened to people and what they might have survived because it makes us uncomfortable. We want to slap a cliché…

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…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…ding fake-blood packets of a Quentin Tarantino film. Hollywood’s cinematic carnage is carefully scripted. The peculiar horror of Diamond Reynolds’ smartphone video, capturing the wheezing final breaths of Philando Castile, was that it was not scripted at all. It deviated from the classic Hollywood script: “Please, officer, don’t tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registra…

Ross Douthat’s Missing Pregnant Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…elationship: modernity goes up, fertility goes down. Reduce friction, your car goes faster. Yet hidden in those grand abstractions are, once again, actual people making decisions about the resources they have available to them. In general, when women can exercise some control over the timing and number of pregnancies they have, many of them opt to do so; not because they are mindlessly driven to do so by the sociological version of Van Der Waals f…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…ins that Adams still suffers from traumatic stress, how he can’t ride in a car in the far-right lane because he’s afraid of IEDs, and his unease is palpable in the portrait. Adams’ mouth is slightly open, his eyes vacant. Heavy strokes of pink and rose and peach form his face, one side purple and in shadow. When I read this book, I like Bush. I soften toward him. Maybe it’s the contrast with our current president, whose policies wake me in the mid…

Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…r, she can use sand. A shabbos goy can give an observant Jew a ride in his car. In a world as purely pragmatic and as sensitive to the need for exceptions as ours, these partial accommodations can seem not so much ingenious as nit-picky, or, on the other hand, hypocritical. A casual reader of religion stories, without access to the endless history of arguments, justifications, and adjustments in which the document or development in question is mer…