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How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

By Monica Black

…uropean witch scares, postwar West German witchcraft accusations did not involve carnal relations with the Devil, nocturnal flight, or being able to fall down stairs without sustaining injury. Though they imputed magical evildoing, the accusations mostly involved more mundane human problems, like suspicion, resentment, and festering doubt. This characteristic aligns with what anthropologists and historians who work on comparative witchcraft have m…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…encouraged by the movement made in the Convention today,” lawyer, abuse survivor and SBC advisor Rachael Denhollander told the Houston Chronicle. “Ed Litton’s character and positions give me hope that significant positive change is possible for the denomination.” Indeed, Litton agreed to an independent audit of the SBC’s handling of sexual abuse issues, a move Southern Baptist author and speaker Daniel Darling lauded in his triumphant USA Today op…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…om food, drink, sex and cigarettes, many Muslims watch programs that are divided over 30 days to keep the viewer hooked and inspired over the course of an exhausting sacred calendar. So yes, the series can be overly long at times, and there’s too much dialogue, but for Americans who are used to the frenetic, almost nauseating pace of contemporary entertainment, a more langorous pace is a Godsend. The series was filmed in standard Arabic, but very…

Prison as Resurrection

By Caleb Smith

…ars are turning their attention to the prison in recent years. I’m still involved in other related projects too, including the Web site Imagined Prisons. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? Most people seem to assume that the prison is eternal and inevitable. My students are often surprised to learn that punishment has a history: that the modern prison was invented as a response to certain social and philosophical changes…

Jeffress’ Statement About Trump’s God-Given Authority is Nonsense

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…hat others will use the previous chapter to argue that Christians should never avenge themselves, “but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’” Jeffress is right in reading Romans 12 as a moral instruction to individuals or communities of Christians, and chapter 13 as dealing with systems of government instead. But then he goes off the rails. Christians have always had mixed feelings about…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…ewis Taylor observes that faith-grounded activists are most likely to discover a vital liberatory politics outside of their formal religious structures and circuits: in on-fire liminal spaces where secular activists and artists usually take the lead in creating and sustaining woke communities of struggle and celebration. These spaces aren’t hard to find, and the God who has left the church building in disgust will always be found in the midst of t…

Why James H. Cone’s Liberation Theology Matters More Than Ever

By Daniel José Camacho

…ngs but also sparked Christian accusations of “Marxist victimology.” Conservative Christians have consistently ignored or rejected Cone—and liberation theologies—as heretical, unbiblical, reverse-racist class-warfare. A Christianity Today piece on Michael Brown suggests that Cone’s gospel is “for hatred, bitterness, [and] unforgiveness.” Even when he is not vehemently repudiated, I believe that Cone is largely misunderstood. One misunderstanding o…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…istians exist in culture, and so as cultural players, engage in cultural acts. Producing chaos rhetoric is a very normal cultural act because it’s an effective way to gain authority and support, which is necessary for any social group to survive. Expecting groups to exist outside of the very culture on which they rely to survive is asking them to perform cultural suicide. So do I wish it were different? Certainly. But I’m not sure that my wish is…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…nce and its consequences? Those questions strike at the odd ways that we divvy up violence in our fictions—and the question of how far that divvying should go, here in the era of PTSD. Not Adolescence, But War Suzanne Collins grew up in a military family. Her father served in Vietnam when she was a small child. He dreamed of the war for the rest of his life. As a child, Collins would be awakened by his cries. Some critics read the Hunger Games tri…

Beyond Radical: Mary Daly, Feminist Theologian, Changed Worlds

By Susan Henking

…of the Harvard chapel (and of Catholicism) in the name of women, and her involvement in the formation of key areas of scholarly inquiry (including the Women and Religion section of the American Academy of Religion), Mary Daly was an agent of change. Self-identified as a revolutionary and a radical, branded a conservative essentialist or racist by others, her works of philosophical, theological, and genre-bending scholarship affected generations of…