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Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…mattered. And it was especially true of religious people. Son of God, the latest cultural product aimed at the supposedly burgeoning Christian consumer public, embodies this mode of kitsch religiosity. Of course Jesus is hot, white, and soulful. Of course he is just absolutely perfect. That’s what a religious person should aspire to be: nice, clean, square, entirely in major key. More than the Biblical literalism of the film—a term which is hardl…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…d have been alleviated. But as yesterday’s statement from the USCCB on the latest proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services on religious exemptions and accommodations made clear, there appears to be little the administration can do to satisfy the bishops. Could that situation have been improved with greater involvement by someone who has dismissed church-state separation concerns? Something DiIulio observed underscores fundame…

LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dily resurrection of Jesus and the notion that Jesus died for my sins. The latest insult to my self-claimed Christianity came in the form of a website that lists LGBT-friendly churches around the US I had submitted my congregation, Jubilee! Circle in Columbia, S.C., to be listed in the database, since I consider us an LGBT-friendly Christian congregation. Imagine my surprise, however, when one of the site’s owners wrote to question my Christian cr…

Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…r constructive proposals for what to make of the holiday, they’re only the latest examples of a venerable Christian tradition. Indeed, so much of the work of faith is the process of trying to do just that. In this case, what is it about evil and death, and perhaps the temptation to mayhem, that the Church’s story can’t quite manage to contain? And what should faithful people do about it? The broader cultural narrative of modern Halloween continues…

Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?

By Patricia Miller

…n that emergency contraception is an abortifacient. In its comments to the latest version of the accommodation, the USCCB took it a step further and asserted that not only are contraceptives not a preventive service, but actually pose a health threat to women, revealing a deep hostility to women’s exercise of fertility management: Unlike other mandated “preventive services,” prescription contraceptives covered by this mandate do not prevent diseas…

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…hen a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!” Hate may be too strong a word, but my friend was accurately remembered the attitude I had toward the universally admired, “name brand” in popular religion writing, circa our college years in the late 1990s. I would express frustration at Armstrong’s ge…

Visit From Conservative Sex Educator Divides a Town

By Eric C. Miller

…state of American sex education. If you’ve been following the story of her latest exploits, you know that the abstinence educator spoke last week at George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia, where she reportedly told students, “If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you,” and “I could look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you’re going to be promiscuous.” Covering that same visit for the Charlesto…

Will the Catholic Church Throw Cold Water on the LARC Revolution?

By Patricia Miller

…dicating that Catholic providers may be gearing up to make an issue of IUD promotion. Even a referral work-around could dampen the effectiveness of a LARC initiative because it interrupts the continuity of care for female patients, requiring them to get an appointment with another provider in another office at another date. This can deter younger and poorer women, who often have difficulty with transportation or getting off from work or school, fr…

A Pro-Patriarchy Argument in All Its Glory

By Patricia Miller

…Life—announced this week that they had rejected the Obama administration’s latest accommodation and would proceed with their suits. (And which Priests for Life helpfully compared to a government “plan to arbitrarily imprison children between 2 and 4 years old, and imposes on businesses the obligation to inform them of such children among the families of their employees.”) This, too, lays bare the true nature of the suits, since the plaintiffs are…

Thanks, Tony Perkins, for Defending those Violent Jewish-y Parts of the Bible

By Evan Derkacz

…n Bibles from hotel rooms on the campus of Penn State University, Perkins’ latest communique couldn’t resist a little dig at Judaism. It’d be like defending some diss aimed at both your and your friend Lucy’s mother by saying: “OMG, Lucy’s mother so does not cheat on her father!” But let’s backtrack a sec to his main point, in which he quotes the ADF in support of his argument that it’s constitutional for a state-run hotel to include a Gideon Bibl…