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Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…e hilarious. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. He’s capable of radio sprints, rants of such exuberance and creativity they demand to be heard. Amanda Hess, reviewing the series for the New York Times, calls McLemore, “the peppiest pessimist south of the Mason-Dixon line,” noting his “talent for profane rants about civilization’s downfall that he delivers in an Alabama drawl.” There is more than a t…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…most grieved voice of the night pushed back, “Why should I spend one more minute engaging a text that was used to traumatize and shame me? That’s still weaponized against my existence? I have no obligation to redeem the Bible.” It would make sense if that was everyone in the room’s stance. And yet it wasn’t. Some of us, maybe, are capable of this sort of clean divorce. But for many of us, it doesn’t seem that easy to walk away entirely. Once on N…

North Carolina Just Tried to Ban Marriage Equality Because “Almighty God” Said So

By Sunnivie Brydum

…d let live.” Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. And as long as the HB2 “repeal” known as HB142 is in force, localities are barred from enacting nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people—so even the progressive cities that want to uphold marriage equality (or equal access for trans folks, or employment protections) would be unable to do so. If North Carolina Republicans feel emboldened enough to…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…ly abortion. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Though evangelicals (unlike Catholics) initially exhibited a range of responses to Roe v. Wade, moderate evangelicals were activated and radicalized by Francis Schaeffer’s documentary How Should We Then Live in 1977. The 10-part series, directed by his son Frank, was a broad stroke history of the Christian West, concluding with the solemn threat posed…

Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…rs his name. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Add in our literary history, with writers like Louise Erdrich (who lives in Minnesota but writes profoundly about North Dakota) and our epic poet Thomas McGrath, and the “flyover state” mantra becomes untenable. Don’t get me wrong: the state’s a complicated place, filled with unjust histories and memories alongside beautiful landscapes and stories. But…

Alabama Senate Considers Giving Church Its Own Police Force; Irony Reportedly Dead

By Daniel Schultz

…. Christian! Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. If you’re keeping score at home, the story so far is that the Alabama Legislature is trying to allow an individual megachurch to establish its own police force. It was blocked once by a governor who has since been brought down by one of the largest—and weirdest—sex-and-corruption scandals the U.S. has seen in a long time. The bill will almost certainly…

Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…an old book. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Sure, the procedural details of the bill could just be considered housekeeping, but simply reading the protocol for who can issue a license if those elected to do so refuse is daunting. If a county clerk, their deputy clerks, and a judge all refuse to sign and issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, the bill allows the clerk to appoint someone—w…

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

…and on. I got to a point where I was able to step back and say, “Hold on a minute. This is not all that Christianity looks like.” I decided I needed to pursue diversity in my coverage. I began to think more seriously or a lot deeper about the choices I was making in terms of reporting and the people I looked to for input on a story. In your letter from the editor in the inaugural print issue, you mentioned how churches pay lip service to racial co…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…he faithful. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. The argument Douthat makes is similar to one made by another conservative Catholic, the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, more than 350 years ago. The argument known as Pascal’s Wager is the idea that it’s better to believe in God than not, because even if the odds in favor of God’s existence are pretty remote, the cost of belief is r…

The Problem with Moral Nuance on Abortion for Democrats

By Patricia Miller

…s horrible.” Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Groome distills Clinton’s entire history of discussing reproductive rights in a nuanced and complex manner to her obviously angry response to Donald Trump’s contention in the third presidential debate that abortion was basically viable fetuses being ripped from their mother’s wombs days before birth. “I strongly support Roe v. Wade,” she said. Was it t…