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Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…e population of New Orleans not decreased by almost 30 percent (a majority African American), there would be no Beasts of the Southern Wild. Also, by coincidence, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout occurred on the first day of shooting the film in April of 2010. As Zeitlin puts it, “The oil spill happening created this sort of strange, life imitates art on set… The whole time you would wake up in the morning and check the oil and it would get cl…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…tion and creating something new and amazingly vibrant on Washington Square South. But what may ultimately be most endearing was his gift for exploding the cheap piety we’re still imprisoned by as we head toward the 2012 elections. Nowhere was this on display more prominently than in his distinction as the first author to have the word “fuck” printed in the Village Voice. In “Toward a New Definition of Obscenity,” Moody, who had by 1965 screened ba…

The Fall of D’Souza’s Star?

By Sarah Posner

…peech honoraria places him in the “top tier” of Christian speakers, was in South Carolina to speak at a Baptist church, which was hosting “high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives.” (Cue guffaws here.) Smith describes one conference organizer, Alex McFarland, being “distressed” at the behavior of their celebrity speaker. According to Smith, D’Souza told McFarland that he had “recently”…

Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion

By Paul Harvey

…that led to the quote-unquote ‘noble cause,’ and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies. The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe, and helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. He has since partially apologized for and retracted those comments, insisting that he should have clarified that he was talking about the congressional refusal to fund the finding and burying of Confederate…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…igious experience certainly provided much food for thought. Catholicism in South America goaded him to think about his own Christian belief and the justice of Christian warfare in the region. Natural disasters and animal pain troubled him with regard to the problem of evil. And the English Christian missions made him wonder how humans improve morally. The seeds were planted for an evolutionary view of religion. I think he already came to suspect d…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…een a very long time coming, from Eurocentrism to the Church of the Global South. Not to mention his reputation as an advocate for the poor, emphasizing the Christian Gospel of love, washing the feet of AIDS victims, and more. The new pope’s legacy will stand him in good stead as well, since his parents were Italians, and he speaks Italian fluently—not a bad thing for a pope—even as he has never served in the Vatican curia, the focus of much criti…

Obama, MLK, Not “Nice” Enough to Moderates?

By Paul Harvey

…vement. He made little or no appeal to the mass of white Christians in the South—the Baptists, the evangelicals of Southern Presbyterianism, the growing numbers associated with the Pentecostal and Holiness movements. Instead he threw his energy into attracting mainline and socially liberal churchmen: Methodists, various Lutheran denominations, moderates and liberals in the Southern Presbyterian church and, especially, the Episcopalians. … [In] the…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…bortion to receive state-directed counseling, while three others—Arkansas, South Dakota and Virginia—expanded their existing laws; Missouri’s new law was enjoined pending a legal challenge. This year’s actions bring to 27 the number of states with state-directed counseling requirements in effect. (emphasis added). The Minnesota bill did require that the woman be informed “whether or not an anesthetic or analgesic would eliminate or alleviate organ…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

The list of states considering anti-Shari’ah legislation is growing. South Carolina can be added along with South Dakota. The Muslim Public Affairs Council is trying to get more Muslims writing for TV and movies in Hollywood. The number of US Muslims accused of terrorism dropped by half in 2010, a new study reports. A pair of doves just didn’t want to leave the Pope’s window this week. People who believe the end of the world will come on 12/21/12…

What Religion Looks Like, Wisconsin Edition

By Kim Bobo

…order that the rights of all members of the society may be maintained and promoted, we support innovative bargaining procedures that include representatives of the public interest in negotiation and settlement of labor-management contracts, including some that may lead to forms of judicial resolution of issues. We reject the use of violence by either party during collective bargaining or any labor/management disagreement. We likewise reject the p…