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Cleansing Monsters: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

By Joseph Laycock

…of evil, and stories about hunting vampires naturally invoke a Manichaean worldview: a struggle between absolute good and evil. A consequence of Grahame-Smith’s historical fiction is that it utterly vilifies the South, portraying them as enemies of humanity itself. Jefferson Davis, as vampire collaborator, explains, “Mr. Lincoln, vampires are superior to man, just as man is superior to the Negro. It’s the natural order of things, you see.” In the…

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

By Elizabeth Shively

…e resistance sites like No Shame Movement, a website on which people share stories about breaking up with purity culture, and #LifeAfterIKDG, which tracks critiques of the hallmark purity how-to text, I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris. Harris himself suggests he’s rethinking his message, and will do so in a film with an anticipated release date in the fall. As Pure demonstrates, the interconnected messages about sexual abstinence before mar…

A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before

By Michael E. Heyes

…he man who governs them is the incarnation of the Devil. Pamphlets, songs, news stories, and literature have all been made vilifying him and connecting his administration with Biblical prophecies about the End of Days. For these people, the Devil’s minions are everywhere, enforcing unpopular laws that have been passed without their consent. Calls for armed resistance against these demonic forces by gun-loving patriots have begun, all of which cata…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…permission, but I was glad to pay every cent. I sent a review copy to The New Yorker’s Louis Menand who had reviewed my earlier book Sin Boldly! He sent me back an email thanking me for the book and praising the cover. That was it. I am still waiting for a review. Is there a book you wish you had written? Why? Call it a cliché, but my field is early American, and still the greatest book in the world to me, one I reread every year and still get mo…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

…’t help but think about 9/11, when memorials and notes cropped up all over New York City as people waited, and hoped for word about their loved ones. The pain on Amanda’s face was very much like what happened to people who grieved again once the memorials were taken down some time after 9/11. With laws being enacted about roadside memorials and the like, I thought this was a interesting way to draw the audience into this week’s story, as well as p…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age.” The tweet from @philritchie, sometimes drummer and Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral in rural Essex, arrived while I was mulling over a question Parker Palmer had posted just a bit earlier on his Facebook page about the relationship between violent words and images in broadcast media and violent acts. I’d added my two cents to the developing conversation, citing Douglas Rushkoff’s quip that “They don’t call it…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d their personal testimonies of injustice and discrimination. Spanning the world–from Uganda to Russia–#WhereLoveIsIllegal not only brings awareness to the violent consequences of anti-LGBTI forces, but encourages viewers to donate to grassroots LGBTI organizations in target countries as well. Through a partnership with the Fund for Global Human Rights, #WhereLoveIsIllegal contributions are disseminated to Hope Alive Initiative, helping LGBTI comm…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…l the heat. So, I see this separation thing as a matter of degrees. At all times there needs to be a reliable, unbiased medium of cross-communication. I said at all times. In this mosque there would be some sense that a problem such as broken speaker, missing cups and missing Maryams would be corrected because we do inhabit the world as well as the mosque— both men and women. For the larger issues, I think the separate spheres cannot be equal. Bes…

Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…what is really at issue: some things being worth killing for. Like someone breaking into your home. Or “evil.” I’ll come back to that word. Next, notice the curious confusion about the relationship between the two Christian “testaments” or, more accurately, the two “covenants.” As a Catholic, Hannity says that he wasn’t very well versed in the Hebrew Bible, and the Protestant pastor gently chides him for “just ignor[ing] that part.” This is signif…

Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors

By Caroline Matas

…called pastor but not function as a pastor in any traditional sense of the word? One wonders whether the SBC’s rush to publicly double down on its prohibition of female pastors in the wake of Saddleback’s 2021 ordinations of three long term female employees belies even this small bit of wiggle room. Regardless, what we have here seems to be Olympic-level goalpost-moving by the SBC in an attempt to maintain their gender hierarchy without it, well,…