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Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…sts, declining ticket sales and increasingly mixed reviews led to conflict between the various production companies. There’s currently a legal moratorium preventing a fourth installment. Other major studio efforts haven’t cracked the code for commercial success either: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah earned a respectable $100 million, but cost an estimated $125 million to make. Son of God did okay at the box office, grossing $26.5 million its opening week…

Thoughts from the “Bad Hombre” Debate

By Candace E. West

I really thought I’d feel better once the debates were over. I’d been looking forward to today as the beginning of the end of this interminable campaign—the moment when the light at the end of the tunnel came into view. In an election that’s seen sexual assault allegations, endorsements from white supremacists, and infiltration by Russian hackers take center stage, it’s no wonder that the most common comments I hear are variations on the same the…

Fear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists

By Sarah Posner

…Church Audit Procedures Act are adhered to in all enforcement interaction between the IRS and churches.” No agreement between the IRS and the FFRF. Just a letter from the IRS to the Justice Department, upon which FFRF relied in deciding to withdraw its own lawsuit. Its procedures, the IRS letter went on: require evaluation of the information item by our Review of Operations (“ROD”) unit and then the Political Activities Referral Committee (“PARC”…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…state of disbelief and objectivity into a realm of complicity. In a recent New York Times interview, co-writer Damon Lindelhof suggests, One of the things that we completely own is that in many ways Lost is a mash-up/remix of our favorite stories, whether that’s Bible stories from Sunday school or Narnia or Star Wars or the writings of John Steinbeck. Carlton and I both had to take philosophy classes when we were in college, and we talk about phil…

Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

By Joseph Laycock

…uznetsov’s bunker), or contestation. Violence arises when these disputes continue to escalate. From this perspective, while placing an ‘X’ on barcodes may seem silly, it’s better than some of the alternatives….

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…is aligned with those atheists who find beauty in God and the rise of that newly noted cohort of “religious nones” who still pray. Is the vast conversation sparked by the book, the film, and Green’s internet followers (the Nerdfighters) one of these many new spaces? In the end, after all of their philosophizing and text messages, our heroes cannot escape embodiment. Hazel Grace tells us that Augustus Waters died “when the cancer, which was made of…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

…“an expression of its religious beliefs?” Throughout this entire standoff between the opponents of the 2007 OLC memo and the Obama administration—a conflict that is now more than five years old—the Justice Department has failed to explain why it persists with this interpretation of RFRA, why it thinks it is justifiable for taxpayers to fund hiring discrimination that is otherwise illegal, or how it ensures that the self-certified organizations ac…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…trality, or the role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality.” Cameron also lays bare his quintessentially 21st century religiosity, proclaiming that “I am a member of the Church of England, and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more diff…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…trality, or the role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality.” Cameron also lays bare his quintessentially 21st century religiosity, proclaiming that “I am a member of the Church of England, and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more diff…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…o-Indo-European dawn goddesses (Any and all citations are from Wikipedia). New Testament scholars have noted that since The DaVinci Code became a cultural phenomenon, there’s been a surge of conspiratorial claims about Jesus, the early church, and the influence of Pagan mystery religions. Authors such as Craig Evans and Bart Ehrman have written with bewilderment at the revival of “mythicist” theories of Jesus and “nineteenth-century philosophical…