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Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…Church teaching mandates a separation between sign (i.e. icons, etc.) and signified (i.e. the divine presence), in practice the two often merge. Both Roman Catholic modernizers and Protestant iconoclasts have for the last four hundred years tried to stress the transcendence of God’s presence—the absolute separation between the material and spiritual in the here and now. But sacred immanence continues to influence Catholic religiosity in Mexico an…

AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference

By Jeanne Carstensen

…IDS Conference in Mexico City last year, she realized “there is no obvious sign of the epidemic diminishing until at least 2030.” Since teaching in the United States for the last five months, Haddad has been further sobered by “just how ignorant Americans are about Africa in general and the AIDS epidemic specifically.” She wants her students to understand that “the epidemic is a justice issue, not a moral issue.” While African leadership holds its…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…ce of anti-intellectualism, portrays educators as modern-day Pharisees who promote ideology rather than critical thinking. So it’s hardly surprising that some Christian students began performing this script in the first week of classes. By equating educators with the villains of the New Testament, ordinary classroom encounters can be transformed into an extension of Biblical narratives. In Cronk’s film, Harper’s character is compared to a Christia…

Gingrich on Obama’s “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial Behavior” and “American Exceptionalism”

By Sarah Posner

…dam Serwer’s takedown of it, the money line being “This is the witchdoctor sign without photoshop, WorldNetDaily without the exclamation points.” Or, from the right, Daniel Larison’s pronouncement of the story “the most ridiculous piece of Obama analysis yet written,” its thesis “simply stupid,” its conclusion “inexcusably moronic. . . ideological Birtherism.” At Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition conference on Friday (D’Souza delivered a s…

Will New York Mega-Church Pastor Tim Keller Redeem Publishing?

By Becky Garrison

…ll be solely devoted to books from evangelical Christian preacher Timothy Keller and his Redeemer Presbyterian Church. In light of Sarah Posner’s analysis of Keller’s Manhattan-based mega-church on Killing the Buddha, here are some suggested book titles we might see from the Redeemer line: I’ll Sign Manhattan No Patience with Frank Schaeffer The Family: The Solid Fellowship With a Heart for American Power The Purpose Driven Placebo Keller Kindness…

A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…s in the pack, and started responding to people’s jeers. Some guy ripped a sign out of the man’s hands and another man leapt out of nowhere, encouraging everyone around to respect them and let them leave (again, sometimes America is amazing). This woman is a human being and although I don’t share her views, I start yelling “I will respect my elders. Please. Leave.” and a few other great folks and I start to clear the path. I walk right up to her a…

Talking Religion at 30,000 Feet

By Michael J. Altman

…blical Instructors changed its name to the American Academy of Religion; a sign that what James had started was beginning to take hold. In our time, the failure to bracket might not lead to Christian bigotry in our understanding of religion. But it could lead to a secularist prejudice just as toxic. If the early investigators of world religions believed them to be lesser forms of Christian truth, then our own postmodern investigations might just a…

Want to Save Marriage? Ban Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nning divorce. Even if it’s meant as “satire” Marcotte is still collecting signatures for his ballot measure, and will need 694,354 valid signatures by March 22. His measure will probably fail, but it points up the blatant hypocrisy of the “traditional marriage” crowd. It’s not really that they want to preserve heterosexual marriage — because if they did, they’d be the ones leading this charge. Instead, they are simply bigots who want to bar peopl…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…siding in areas that had the highest levels of slavery in 1860 demonstrate significantly different attitudes today than whites who reside in areas that had lower historical levels of slavery: 1) they are more politically conservative and Republican leaning; 2) they are more opposed to affirmative action; and 3) they score higher on questions measuring racial resentment. After accounting for a range of other explanations and possible intervening va…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…e women Democrats dressed in white to signify the suffrage movement and to signal to the president that they’ll be watching how he navigates gender equality. Without getting into the whole mess of how wearing white actually hearkens to a very racist and exclusionary history within the 19th-century suffragist movement, it looks like for all the Dems’ effort, Trump barely mentioned women’s issues. He briefly touched on empowering women entrepreneurs…