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First Behind the Scenes Clip from NOAH…

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…Letter to Hollywood” from “Faith-Driven Consumer,” warning that 46 million ticket-buyers could be dissuaded from seeing the film, and pressure from the National Religious Broadcasters group. Then came the $26.5 million opening weekend of the Jesus movie Son of God, an adaptation of the History Channel series that the “Open Letter” praises. Now, Paramount seems ready to try again. Grace Hill Media is back on the case, releasing a series of behind-t…

Is the Theologian an Antiquated Relic of a Dying Institution?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…the creation of a more just church and society was worth the price of the ticket. Yet two of the more interesting interventions came from Jack Fitzmier, Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion, and Tony Jones, an independent author, blogger and emerging church entrepreneur. Fitzmier challenged our very raison d’etre as academic theologians. In an era marked by faltering seminaries and divinity schools, limited graduate programs in…

Race, Religion and the Colin Powell Endorsement

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d yet one more indication that the “base” is shifting and the McCain-Palin ticket is wobbling in the shockwaves of that seismic event. What Powell said to Tom Brokaw was telling, most of all for his quiet composure and lack of animus. What was very clear, however, was that this career military man is completely dismayed by what the Republican establishment has permitted his party to become. Race-baiting and religion-baiting are of a piece in Powel…

Worse Than the Robber Barons

By Peter Laarman

…hools, etc. They have a sneaking suspicion (also warranted) that these new-class elites take advantage of special tax breaks and other sweet deals even as they continue to make the rules for everyone else and even as they decide what interest rates we drones will have to pay and what level of taxation we will have to bear. Do not expect Main Street’s visceral rage over such presumptions of privilege—and over the special moral exemptions the exces…

303 Creative Is Not a ‘Religion v. Gay Rights’ Case — But Here’s Why the Christian Right is Happy with the Media Suggesting Just That

By Heron Greenesmith

…ther couples whose weddings she disapproves of. Colorado law requires that businesses not discriminate against clients and customers on the basis of protected characteristics, including sexual orientation. In 2016, ADF and Smith sued the state of Colorado in anticipation of Smith’s work being in violation of the state’s nondiscrimination statute. Upon hearing that Smith wanted a preemptive right to discriminate, the lower courts upheld Colorado’s…

This is not a Religion Column: Biblical Capitalism

By Jeff Sharlet

…e can’t.” The common denominator is power. The best way to help the middle class, the Fellowship believes, is to help the ruling class. The benefits will trickle down. “They’re so busy loving us,” one Fellowship brother once said of the elites to whom he ministered, “but who’s loving them?” The Fellowship is, and right now they’re loving Sarah Palin, a candidate who has excited the evangelical base like no other since William Jennings Bryan raged…

Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

By Mark Hulsether

…study politics or law and also be activists or lawyers, or study music or business and also play music or start businesses. They simply take this for granted. Why, in the case of religion students, is this treated as a problem or trivialized? Will allies of the academic study of religion be pleased if they follow Newsweek’s link, “Related: The 25 Best Schools for Do-Gooders”? Apparently the winners were not measured by actual curricula in social…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…d not respond to interview requests). Had an Abortion? You’re Not a Second-Class Follower of Jesus I recently met Kent and his wife, Mary Anne, at their church north of downtown, in a corrugated metal warehouse building next door to a Family Dollar store. The Kents’ foray into the anti-abortion wars started three years ago, when he and Mary Anne discovered there was an abortion clinic half a mile from their church. They started praying there, and…

Mumbai is Not 9/11

By Laurie Patton

…cture welcoming sea travelers, where wealthy globetrotters stay and middle-class travelers go for a cup of coffee after seeing the India Gate; the Trident/Oberoi, where global business elites go after a meeting at the stock exchange or legislative assembly; and when the rich and famous want to celebrate, they go to Café Leopold nearby. Other places were not so lofty. Were you in a fender-bender with another rickshaw and needed some stitches, you m…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…mand political loyalty, it asks for earnest acclamation. To conservatism’s business elite and secular liberalism’s political elite, it responds with yet another ruling class: a “responsible” elite. There’s an element of the superhero sensibility in Obama’s Social Gospel politics, a perspective that sees the poor as damsels in distress or children in burning buildings, awaiting rescue by the best and the brightest: Jane Addams, the early 20th centu…