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America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…rected on a pike at Plymouth following the conclusion of King Phillip’s War. The settlers subsequently decided that that impalement also warranted a similar declaration of general thanksgiving. As Leonard Cohen sings of America’s covenantal ambivalence, this land is “[t]he cradle of the best and of the worst.” Thanksgiving has been marshaled yet again in the battle over what is the proper interpretation of the idea of America. With thousands of Sy…

Evolution Sunday: Pastors Celebrate Darwin

By Lauri Lebo

…their assault on teaching evolution in science class. Zimmerman thinks the best way to change this mindset is for scientists to step back from the debate and hand the reins over to religious leaders. This Feb. 12 will be Darwin’s 200th birthday. Three days later, as part of Evolution Sunday, a holiday Zimmerman created, pastors around the world will be speaking from the pulpit about Darwin’s contribution to our understanding of the world. Zimmerma…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…t.” It’s clear in the song that Pigpen’s search for a viable number is, at best, a futile proposition. Still he dials the telephone operator to try find that lost landline. Problem is, he’s not even sure which direction she went. “I think she’s somewhere down south, down about Baton Rouge,” Pigpen begins, but then changes his mind. “She could be hangin’ round the steel mill, working in a house of blue lights, riding a getaway bus out of Portland.”…

Meet the New Haggards—Same as the Old Haggards?

By Kathryn Joyce

…k that way because he taught the scriptures that homosexuality isn’t God’s best for us. But I always have to throw in that we also teach that God is understanding of our human condition and it’s no different than someone who struggles in other areas of our life: like pride, in my case, I think that’s something that I have to struggle with. The scriptures say we’ve all sinned and are all short of the glory of God. So in that context, that’s how we…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…Parenthood’s budget, and that abortion is “certainly not a money-maker. At best, it’s a break-even.” Regarding fetal pain, the film discusses at great length a notorious 1999 picture taken by the photographer Michael Clancy which Clancy maintains shows a fetus, at 21 weeks of gestation, reaching out of the womb to grasp the finger of a surgeon performing an experimental surgery to repair spinal bifida. The photograph, Clancy says, has been used in…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…knees and stop, drop and roll roll roll out of that broke-down palace. The best thing I got from Wheaton was lifelong friends—and finding a place to live in community, doing life, raising our families, becoming more fully ourselves as the years pass. Together. Mark grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., and after college, returned there to start his own family. One of the many things he taught me was the importance of place. Where you choose to live mat…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…arden and times how quickly we snatch for a fig leaf. Krieger is after the codes that get ingrained, that run in the background, that make us think a certain way about, say, virginity, or sovereignty, those triggers that flip circuits such that suffering immediately flashes in the backs of our mind as redemptive, death as sacrifice, and so on. Poison, she might say: brainwashing with a dirty sponge. Despite Simmons’s hagiographic comment regarding…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…d imaginative; females are dependent, supportive, and submissive. Phillips promotes this family vision in the Academy and Festival by encouraging films that endorse it (in 2007 there was even a special category “Biblical Family”). That year, the “Best of Festival” Jubilee Award went to The Monstrous Regiment of Women, a “documentary” directed by Colin Gunn. The film, which has an all-female cast that includes anti-feminist doyenne Phyllis Schlafly…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…o. What is more, one feature of ritual is that the “message” is not self encoded. That is why I keep making a distinction between this and what we mostly understand when we use the word prayer in English. Prayer is all about our immediate status. “Help me get through this”, “Give me an A on the exam”, “make her heart turn to love me”, “Grant me a successful hajj.” etc. Worship responds to a higher level in fact, the highest level of formality. Eve…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…technologically advanced and are often thought to be supportive of humans’ best interests. Harvard researcher Dr. John Mack’s bestselling book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (1994) featured the testimonies of people whose encounters with alleged extraterrestrials are best characterized as beneficial and spiritual, if frightening. Current UAP military narratives counter the testimonies found in books like Mack’s. They’re replaced with the…