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Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…ion.” They say a woman has the right not only to terminate her pregnancy, but to put to death a child up to the age of 4 or 5. The report has been accepted—apparently uncritically—by Gene Veith, who teaches literature at Patrick Henry College (whose president just resigned), by a variety of conservative bloggers, and by many more on Facebook. The evidence for the growing trend is nonexistent. McArdle herself admits the report is based on anecdote….

Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…position.” Russia: More calls for investigation of killings in Chechnya, but is Putin a paper tiger? CNN’s Matthew Chance reported from Moscow on the “terrifying” death threats made by Muslim clerics against Elena Milashina, the journalist who broke the story about a wave of detention, torture and killing of gay men in Chechnya. More than 20 member nations of the Equal Rights Coalition urged Russia to investigate the reports and hold those respon…

Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society

By Jason Josephson Storm

…West. He looked to me to confirm the sentiment, which I did my best to refute. But that reflexive response reinforced in me a suspicion that had been bothering me for some time already—which was that by continuing to use Japanese history to challenge the thesis that equated modernity and disenchantment, I risked reinforcing harmful (and incorrect) clichés about a mystical Orient, when my aim was in fact to undo the pervasive myth of modernity. It…

Faith-Based Bailout Part 3

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…and such no longer trust the people lending them money to tell them the truth about the conditions under which they are borrowing that money. Too many people have lost everything because the conditions of their original loan changed under their very feet. And now the crisis in trust has shifted gears, moving to the financial sector. So many bad loans have resulted in so many failures and foreclosures that banks themselves are hesitant to loan any…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…ation, apart from the first. That one is plain for all to see in the scary numbers given out by the Census Bureau earlier this month: big jumps in the number of Americans losing compensated work for working poverty or worse, and concomitant big jumps in the number of people losing health care coverage. The thing is—and labor market specialists all concur—these blows are no longer cyclical phenomena that will be reversed once “the economy” really s…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…o a few thousand words over their original word limit, but I still had to cut a number of compelling stories of people who have struggled with body shame because of internalized cultural/religious norms and narratives about weight, disability, chronic pain or illness. I also had to omit some of my analyses of examples of the culture of physical improvement. For instance, in the chapter on aging, I nixed a rather lengthy critique I’d developed of D…

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

…lculations, one-third of evangelicals don’t vote, and when you factor this number against the number of votes needed to tip battleground states like Pennsylvania, there’s not much convincing that needs to be done to turn the election for Trump. It might seem like a small affair, until you realize that JD Vance was one of the speakers at the Courage Tour event in Pennsylvania. Predictably, demonic rhetoric underlies a lot of the Tour. From what I’v…

Bonnaroo Dispatches: Stages

By E. David Morgen

…meaning absent in materialist capitalism. He estimates that he talks to about a thousand people about his healing practices over the course of a festival like Bonnaroo, with maybe about three hundred approaching him for a substantive exchange. Sure enough, just as we end our conversation, a dusty, goateed young man is waiting for Te’Devan’s attention. In a few minutes, the two of them are seated on the ground, their eyes closed in meditation. This…

Bonnaroo 3: With a Buzz in Our Ears

By E. David Morgen

…(called the “What” stage) in front of a crowd that must total 40-50,000. But we have opted out of hearing the headliner in order to secure a prime viewing location for Sigur Rós, an ethereal, experimental band that sings many of their songs in their native Icelandic—and some in a nonsense language that the band calls vonlenska or “hopelandic.” We have been waiting for two and a half hours. The people in front of us have been waiting for five. Thi…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…y of essays by exvangelicals, former Catholics, and others who have moved out of institutional Christianity and into the liminal spaces where Nones are usually grouped. As they write in the introduction, when they met, they discovered they had both moved away from the worst aspects of Christianity, what they called “the repression, the shame, [and] the hypocrisy,” due to the realization that many church teachings were “actively harmful.” While a f…