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Take the Van Gogh Challenge: Doctor Who Part VII

By Gabriel Mckee

…is (understandably) awestruck—what greater contrast could there be to his day-to-day life, where he is perceived as an outcast, a drunk, a madman, and, worst of all, untalented? The Doctor and Amy hope that this visit to the future will rescue Vincent from despair and stop him from committing suicide a few months after their visit, but they fail—van Gogh dies as scheduled (after completing a painting of some sunflowers for Amy, of course). Was th…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…munity and can contribute to the wellbeing and progress of Curaçao. On the day I was elected, I expressed that I would be the prime minister of EVERYBODY. EVERYBODY includes ALL citizens of our dushi Korsou regardless of the colour of their skin, background, income, surroundings, religious beliefs and yes….also sexual orientation. It is my conviction that love is love, and equal is equal, and inclusion therefore means everyone. And that is why I a…

Giving RD The Finger?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…h the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and USA Today. This is all brilliant in its quiet, descriptive way. Silk is especially mindful of the ways in which we are bombarded by news and information from the time we wake to the time we retire. He has structured his response by simply walking us through his day, reminding us that we are always (both actively and semi-passively) receiving such information, sometimes to the poi…

What Does Darwin Mean to You?

By Arri Eisen

…tation, the following responses share a conceptual thread. For more Darwin Day coverage see Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution and Five Things We Can Learn From Creationists. — Arri Eisen * * * Creation daughter at four When I consider your hair, how it sticks out after I comb it, how you sob when you cannot tie your shoes and I rock you, so with each move forward you’re falling away from me, with each move backward you’re surgi…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…was the last thing on my husband’s mind.” Bush now spends several hours a day painting. In his opening essay “Painting as a Passion,” Bush recalls telling one of his art teachers, “[T]here’s a Rembrandt trapped in this body . . . Your job is to liberate him.” He first painted a cube, then a watermelon, then an apple. He took online courses from the Museum of Modern Art to study art history. He painted his pets and landscapes at his ranch and self…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…rmation, but exist in two distinct realities. Leaving the parking lot that day, I spied a junk shop for tourists across the road. When the traffic finally cleared, I noticed flying side by side were the American and the Confederate flags. Greatest Idea Evah Darwin revealed so much of who we are, even though about half of Americans refuse to accept those roots. He has been demonized by religious fundamentalists, who absurdly have attempted to link…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…on Christmas day, and how one guard looked him straight in the eye on that day (that holy day) and “drew with his sandal a cross in the ground.” In recent press events, this moment in Hanoi has become his road to Damascus, the tale told to shunt rumors of irreligion. Conversion narratives have become mandatory formulations in American politics, signaling simultaneously theological affinity with an important voting bloc as well as the character req…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…p paperback Easter stories read by Sanders and Conway—no doubt ordered the day before from Amazon Prime—had nothing to do with teaching, or welcoming, or even celebrating a Christian holiday (inappropriate as that itself would have been at a White House event). As this administration did with its craven and phony defense of “Merry Christmas” as if it were an endangered greeting, the Trump Administration has co-opted another holiday which has both…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…e nudity is blasted into our faces through various technologies day in and day out. Black female nudity, in particular, is made visible to the point of erasure. Meaning, social ideas are so forceful that they often replace individuality. Thus, Lewis’ “concern” for the “women and children” is laughable at best. The reality is, her gaze (as well as the others in the media) is tainted. We see not with our eyes but with the data of our psyches. Thus,…

The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

By Joanna Brooks

…been a more effective mapping of the subterranean emotional landscapes of day-to-day American religious life than Latter Days. But after so many years writing fiction, why a memoir now? Judith Freeman: It began with Romney running for president and friends of mine asking, “Who is he?” There was so much that he wasn’t saying about himself, about his religion. I knew that journalists in press conference and even Harold Bloom would never ask the rig…