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Is the State a Religious Actor in Deeming Teen’s Crotch-Rubbing of Jesus Statue Illegal?

By Joseph Laycock

…ch objects as knick-knacks we cannot throw away because they have sentimental value. Some Christians clearly were upset that a teenager “mistreated” a statue of Jesus, even posting violent threats online. But for others, it was likewise upsetting to see a statue of Satan broken by careless workers. For the 1,000 people who signed a petition, the guerilla art installation has significance because it was clever, pointed out the bureaucratic absurdit…

“Muscular Christianity” Not to Blame For Driscoll: A Response

By Jessica Johnson

…ame for prolonged abuses of power on a single man or his “moral and spiritual failings,” as Hollis Phelps argues in his recent piece for RD. I appreciate Phelps’ overall point that the tragic events surrounding Mars Hill need to be examined beyond Driscoll and entail a closer critical engagement with the church’s culture, but as a cultural anthropologist I’m also sensitive to discussions that view a ‘culture’ as containable, bound, or self-regulat…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…the Hebrew letter Vav repeated three times. In Hebrew, letters have numerical values. The first letter, Alef, is also the number one; the second letter, Bet, is also the number two; etc. Vav, the sixth letter in the Hebrew alphabet and has the numerical value of six. Therefore, according to Weick, Vav Vav Vav is 666—the infamous number of the Beast. The 666 theory does not, drinkers of Monster will be glad to hear, hold up. Here is the relevant pa…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…month Driscoll suffered a major career blow when the Acts 29 Network, the all-male coalition of over 500 Reformed evangelical church planters that he co-founded, removed him and his Seattle based Mars Hill Church from the organization’s membership, and asked him to step down as a pastor. Following this news, Lifeway Christian Stores, the second largest distributor of Christian books, announced it will no longer carry his books, and Mars Hill canc…

Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”

By Arafat Kabir

…t Catholic Spain expelled Muslims and Jews from our Spanish lands and took all our wealth in the same year, 1492. Social networking permits Jew and Muslim, Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Atheist—of all nationalities—to create bridges that extend over the old animosities and greed of our leaders. We can extend our hands from Muslim to Jew, to learn, to teach, and to see that we all have good and bad. But the good is what we must build upon. As f…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…nced the story of Phineas. They also mentioned the Biblical injunction to kill all Amalekites, an ancient people who no longer exist, but whose legacy is often attributed to Israel’s enemy de jure. None of these leaders were dismissed from their posts or censured in any way for making these harsh, cruel statement. No surprise then that other Israeli religious officials joined the genocidal chorus. One local chief rabbi ruled that bombing Palestini…

Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40

By Robert M. Geraci

…o hidebound dogmas and uncritical assumptions. These imaginary worlds have paralleled the rise of other secularized religious beliefs like those observed among millennials, the generation of the “nones.” It’s a new world for religion, and the seeds of today’s religious landscape were present in The Monster Manual, with its dreadful dangers and exuberant enchantments. A bestiary can both catalogue the threat of our demise and foretell the joy of a…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…egistered sex offender, having had an inappropriate relationship with a female prisoner while working as a guard at an Oklahoma prison. When asked if there had been a pushback to Daniels’ previous three events, Civic Center general manager Jim Brown answered, “We’ve had none.” However, Daniels’ latest announcement to hold a black mass at the Civic Center on September 21 has generated unprecedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received…

The ObamaCare “Abortion Fee” Hoax

By Patricia Miller

…ps have known since 2012. The irony is that while the Bracys’ suit is generally hostile to the ACA and the individual mandate, they will only have to pay $2.63 a month for health insurance for a family of six because of federal subsidies. And while the suit implies they will have to make a separate payment for abortion, it admits that federal law bars insurers from billing separately for abortion coverage: “issuers and exchanges may provide ‘infor…

Catholic Nuns Back Obamacare Contraception Access

By Patricia Miller

…ve justice and Catholic reform activism. Quinn has volunteered as an abortion clinic escort and was one of the leaders of a delegation of women religious to Rome 1994 to hold a parallel discussion about the role of women religious during the bishops’ synod on religious life, which largely excluded women….