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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…New Jersey parochial schools (or maybe because of it). Real life Hollywood best friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play Bartleby and Loki, fallen angels who attempt to manipulate a theological loophole in the hopes of returning to Heaven—even if it means the destruction of reality. Several characters gather to prevent this, including Jesus’s last living relative, the secret thirteenth apostle Rufus as played by comedian Chris Rock, and the angel M…

Because the Bible Has a Liberal Bias

By Daniel Schultz

…find within its covers), but the record of very fallible people doing the best they can to live up to their faith. Complaining about liberal bias or sexism or gross violation of moral standards in scripture just reveals ignorance, however well intentioned. The Bible’s not there to provide timeless certainty. Far from it. In fact, it’s there to do just the opposite: provoke arguments and unsettle what it is that we think we know. Because as it tur…

Will Trump’s Weakness Threaten White Evangelical Support?

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…to enforce order at home and abroad. Theologically, this took the form of promoting “biblical gender roles” that dictated unyielding male authority and female submission. Culturally, this resulted in the development of a strikingly militant ideal of “Christian manhood.” For over half a century, evangelical writers and preachers have taught that God filled men with testosterone so that they could aggressively defend faith, family, and nation. They…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…g down from a high, and literally fell to the floor. “God, I have tried my best to ignore you and to do things my way,” he remembers praying. “I’m broken. I’m broken and in need of fixing.” A classic prodigal son story followed. Tchividjian recommitted himself to Christ, entered the seminary, became a minister. He married and had three children. He started the New City Presbyterian Church, a 450-member church in Coconut Creek. Tchividjian’s “class…

A Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’

By Frederick Clarkson

…enerally referred to as a Christian nationalist, largely because he is the best-known promoter of the idea. But as a former vice chair of the Texas Republican Party and a frequent headliner at Christian right and Republican conclaves, he is also a Dominionist with considerable political reach. (The Jefferson Lies was on the New York Times best-seller list at the time it was withdrawn.) The Christian nationalist appeal is to, what historian Frank L…

Atheists Gather in Burbank: A Humanist’s Response

By Anthony B. Pinn

…with their inability for critical self-reflection and critique are not the best champions of healthy life orientations. I remain hopeful that collaboration and partnership will be difficult to achieve but not impossible. I am not calling for a naïve stance marked by blindness—either to the deep dimensions of our differences, or to the great harm that theistic (and atheistic) perspectives can produce when they nurture bad ethics. I left Burbank thi…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…the Stockholm summer every summer.) But it’s in the Muslim world that you best get that special starvation feel of the holy month. The world reorients itself, so that people overeat, overpray, and oversleep. But all the same, a practice as fulfilling and renewing as Ramadan inspires its own subculture (if that’s what you call the habits and norms of well over a billion people), so I’ve adapted a specialized Ramadan dictionary first featured on my…

How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

By Daniel Silliman

…sumer capitalism that he knew so well, packaging and trademark and massive promotional campaigns. How has Crowell shaped the modern religious landscape? The Moody Bible Institute pioneered a means of generating a reputation of being a purveyor of pure religion. Today these business techniques are everywhere. The biggest churches in America have no denominational affiliation, and they are filled with respectable, middle-class people. This would not…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…ents the opposing view here — ed. The Daily Telegraph* is probably not the best source of analysis of a growing body of legal opinion that the Roman Catholic Church, as either state or religion, should be subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for “crimes against humanity.” The paper did, however, give the idea a boost when it published an article claiming that Richard Dawkins wants to arrest the Pope for his role in the cover…

The Problem with Moral Nuance on Abortion for Democrats

By Patricia Miller

…days before birth. “I strongly support Roe v. Wade,” she said. Was it the best response in that moment? Maybe not, but she wasn’t the only candidate in 2016 who found it maddeningly difficult to respond to Trump’s hot-button pushing falsehoods. In any case, that’s a poor argument for dumping the party’s unequivocal support of abortion rights. But it’s Groome’s fellow co-respondent, Steven Krueger of Catholic Democrats, who shows just how cynical…