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Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…interests, for some this incident revealed that the people controlling the code have a lot of power. If one thinks that marketing agents put “Bible” in the code, then they might think of them as predatory, or presumptuous about U.S. Christians and their political affiliations. They might become angry that companies have such power in shaping the public’s perception of Christianity and, indeed, in shaping Christians’ own ideas about their communiti…

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…inciple that imagining creates reality has captivated modern readers,” the promo copy explains. The publisher probably didn’t expect the book to resonate quite so uncomfortably with the political moment when they chose November 8th—Election Day—as its publication date. But indeed, Donald Trump’s distinctive style has roots in the spiritual tradition of which At Your Command and The Secret are both a part. Neville was just ahead of his time. Born i…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing that Obama should be impeached because he is a Muslim (complete with a promo promising free guns, paid for by “a millionaire” who wants you “protected against what’s coming.”) The video in the email is by evangelist Jack van Impe, known for his premillennial rapture theology and his disconnected rambling in Bible verses. It is entitled “President Obama’s Religion in Question” and argues that he is really a Muslim. Joan, who claims in an email…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ding up to this year’s election.“ (For more on Pray the Vote, go here) The promo for Craig Detweiler’s new book Into the Dark reads: “Detweiler, a well-respected film expert and media spokesperson on Hollywood and Christianity, examines forty-five twenty-first-century films that resonate theologically—from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Little Miss Sunshine—offering groundbreaking insight into their scriptural connections and theological applica…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…view LGBT people—as purely sexual beings. Foster’s screed is simply a long promo for a new ex-gay movie coming out, and the trailer, three-minutes of nauseating footage, centers around how each of these former homosexuals lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexually abused. For all the claptrap the religious right yells about how they don’t want to think of us “that way,” the trailer for the film is p…

Is Pope Francis’ Abuse Commission A Fail?

By Patricia Miller

…ointment of Barros last March unleashed a hailstorm of opposition from the Chilean laity in the form of letters and protests, as well as from priests and other Chilean bishops, who, in a largely unprecedented move, boycotted his turbulent installation: Members of the congregation yelled at each other across the aisles; protesters with black balloons heckled and shoved the new bishop, who was forced to cut the Mass short. There were doubts later th…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…t July, Lavers reports, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights asked the Chilean government to respond to a lawsuit filed on behalf of three same-sex couples who had been denied marriage licenses. Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s president-elect, is a supporter of marriage equality. South Africa: “Corrective Rape” on Rise? UK’s Independent published a story this week on violent “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa. The story is based on…

Everyone Should Know The Story Of Alyssa Peterson

By Joanna Brooks

…ries. From 1984 to 1990, leftist guerillas attacked 193 Mormon chapels in Chile. A total of five Mormon missionaries—two American, three Peruvian—were killed by leftist guerillas in South America in 1989, 1990, and 1991.) The globalization of the Church brings new pressures to our concept of who we Mormons are and what constitutes moral and humane behavior in the contemporary world. We are now a religious tradition that is home not only to R…

Earth to Planet Catholic: Francis Papacy is no Picnic

By Mary E. Hunt

…ermath of credible abuse accusations that many of them knew about as well. Chilean priest serial abuser Fernando Karadima had been shipped off to Rome to live out his days in Italian peace. Meanwhile, Francis named Bishop Juan Barros to lead the Diocese of Osorno despite reports that Barros too had been aware of abuses. His installation was out of a Fellini movie. People arrived with black balloons to signal their distaste for a man who was said t…

Earth to Planet Catholic: Francis Papacy is no Picnic

By Mary E. Hunt

…ermath of credible abuse accusations that many of them knew about as well. Chilean priest serial abuser Fernando Karadima had been shipped off to Rome to live out his days in Italian peace. Meanwhile, Francis named Bishop Juan Barros to lead the Diocese of Osorno despite reports that Barros too had been aware of abuses. His installation was out of a Fellini movie. People arrived with black balloons to signal their distaste for a man who was said t…