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Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

By Liz Bucar

…viewer misses that they’re also about ambition and corruption. The Piux IX cape was the largest and most elaborate piece on display, and quite impressive with its detailed embroidery. But there’s no indication that it was commissioned by Maria Anna Carolina of Austria to bribe the pope for political favor; nor that Piux IX was one of the most authoritarian leaders in church history. Religious clothing matters when we understand it in a particular…

Tell It All, Sister! NJ Female PCUSA Pastor Gets Married—To Another Woman!

By David Gillespie

…in the same North Carolina Presbyterian church as did McNeill, was held at Cape Cod on October 17. What also makes this announcement so significant is the fact that the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church USA requires that church officers (which in that denomination would include ministers, elders and deacons) live in “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness.” Often touted as an anti-gay sta…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…ir history and religious heritage: Bois Caïman is one of many Haitian landscapes where the divine Vodou community (Lwa) mercifully answered its devotees’ prayers for guidance and protection during their struggle to liberate the island from slavery and colonial rule. In all religions, gods are summoned to support their devotees in times of war and peace, tragedy, and celebration. Vodou is no different. Vodou priests and priestesses were first respo…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…petrated, was to rob the graves of the Indians who lived near Corn Hill on Cape Cod. And we know that is the reason, the real reason, Pilgrims starved that first winter. They robbed Indian graves. The next spring when the local Indians brought in Tisquantum (Squanto) to interpret, he told the Pilgrims was they needed to return the jewelry stolen from the bodies. And we also know that the grave-robbing did not stop. We know that universities and mu…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…petrated, was to rob the graves of the Indians who lived near Corn Hill on Cape Cod. And we know that is the reason, the real reason, Pilgrims starved that first winter. They robbed Indian graves. *** Can Johnny and Sally Handle the Truth about Thanksgiving? When conservatives decry “revisionist” history, what’s really on trial is history told accurately for the first time. Most of us grew up with halcyon images of benevolent pilgrims sharing a me…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…r me, even more addictive than a box of chocolate truffles or a big bag of Cape Cod potato chips (with sea salt, naturally). I know too much about the book’s setting in Pasadena and the neighboring village of Altadena, where I lived the tiny bungalow life for ten happy years. I also know too much about the inner life of congregations. And I recently soaked up more than I ever expected to know about the inner workings of Unitarianism, thanks to joi…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…at my wedding, and the Bantu Baptists of Mtwaku in South Africa’s Eastern Cape whose faces lit up as we translated an early draft to them. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hope many will find it a useful reference tool—a narrative Who’s Who of ancient Israel. I hope parents and children will engage with it together. And I hope the artwork will inscribe images of the biblical characters on readers’ minds…

Religion and Drag Coexist in ‘Drag Race’ Spinoff—but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Queer

By Drew Konow

…estone encrusted Bible, with a giant bedazzled cross around her neck and a cape embroidered with another cross trailing behind, Alyssa Edwards says “I never thought I would be in full drag, holding a holy rhinestone Bible marrying two men.” Here and elsewhere, Alyssa walks the line between campy religion and sincere religious practice. Lines like “my cup is already runneth over” and “If I have to put on my good church lady wig and walk up here and…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…e often referred to as the “Big Five” in Africa. The African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the African leopard, the rhinoceros, and, of course, the African lion compose the celebrity group of animals for the hunter. They each made this list not because of size or rarity, but because of the danger supposedly involved in hunting them on foot. Each of these can be quite ferocious to a human being endangering them. The term “Big Five” came into being du…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…rican Archbishop of Canterbury. But who? Take Thabo Makgoba, archbishop of Cape Town, who sits in the chair once occupied by Desmond Tutu. Makgoba trained as a psychologist and is young (by the standards of bishops), educated, and eloquent. He has been outspoken on the continued deterioration in Zimbabwe and the persecution of the Church there by the Mugabe regime, as well as racial and inter-ethnic violence in South Africa. Nigeria has more bisho…