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Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…g footsteps herald the end of the world as he knows it. Daniel, too, needs new purpose as well as a new identity. He finds both as father of a race of robots whose sentient intelligence renders them perfect servants. Poor Zoe, the erotic undertone of his unbridled arrogance must be as discomfiting as the sight of her parents copulating in the laboratory. Poor Graystone board members, unaware that this sexy, shiny house slave will end up serving th…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ccording to the conspiracy myth, by a secret cabal that wants to create a “New World Order”—again, code for Jews. Jews want to eradicate the white race by instigating a “race war” and replacing the white population with immigrants. This narrative was popularized by the eugenicist Madison Grant in his 1916 book The Passing of the Great Race. It gained even more traction in white supremacist and Nazi circles with the publication of the Turner Diarie…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…anager, told reporter Don Makatile that people use the Bible and Qur’an to promote homophobia, but that the foundation hopes “to use church leaders to chart the way forward.” There is good news, according to The Other Foundation, such as the once-conservative Dutch Reformed Church relaxing its stance on gay unions among its congregants and the progressive views of such eminent church leaders as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba. South…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…ic presence, all 400-plus pounds of it, usually sitting on a throne with a cape and scepter. His entrepreneurial instinct had him not only singing at the Apollo, but selling Solomon’s magic popcorn in the aisles. Traveling and singing throughout the Jim Crow South that refused to serve traveling black musicians like Walker and Burke, he sold pork chop sandwiches to other musicians on tour. His prodigious family of 21 children, 90 grandchildren, an…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…ir history and religious heritage: Bois Caïman is one of many Haitian landscapes where the divine Vodou community (Lwa) mercifully answered its devotees’ prayers for guidance and protection during their struggle to liberate the island from slavery and colonial rule. In all religions, gods are summoned to support their devotees in times of war and peace, tragedy, and celebration. Vodou is no different. Vodou priests and priestesses were first respo…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…AUUCC suffers almost immediately following the installation of the flashy new minister. The place literally starts to fall apart. One picks up a slight dash of “I told you so” spite in Dana’s reporting. But this “conclusion” to Dana’s story raises the question of whether Dana is a reliable narrator after all. I expect that Huneven wants us all to ponder this question. Yes, the actressy candidate proves to be a complete dud; but does this make the…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…r papal bling, including his red shoes or fur-lined, ermine-trimmed winter cape). He speaks of Francis’ “maneuvers” and calls him the “chief plotter.” And he repeats the question of conservative journalist Edward Pentin’s recent book about whether last year’s synod was “rigged,” echoing its conspiratorial overtones. Of course he fails to note that Pentin’s book, which amounted to an elaborate rehashing of that question, offered no proof of any “ri…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…at my wedding, and the Bantu Baptists of Mtwaku in South Africa’s Eastern Cape whose faces lit up as we translated an early draft to them. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hope many will find it a useful reference tool—a narrative Who’s Who of ancient Israel. I hope parents and children will engage with it together. And I hope the artwork will inscribe images of the biblical characters on readers’ minds…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…than their peers from less-religious families? That’s what a high-profile new study from University of Chicago neuroscientist Jean Decety and a global crew of collaborators sought to determine. In the course of the study, published in the journal of Current Biology, the researchers use something called the “children’s dictator game,” a.k.a. stickerpalooza. Here’s how it worked: Step one. Go to an elementary school. Find a child. Place a set of 30…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…only African country where Anglicanism is growing quickly. In the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, the Episcopal Church of Sudan is a critical voice for peace in a divided and unstable nation. Nearly half the population identifies as Anglican, following rapid growth during the country’s recently-ended civil war. Across southern Africa, the Anglican Church, following the model of its onetime leader Desmond Tutu, continues to be a voice of recon…