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To Be Loved or Feared: Doctor Who, part IX

By Gabriel Mckee

…much of what follows hinges on it, so I’ve got to. The Pandorica was constructed to contain a “nameless, terrible thing,” “the most feared being in all the cosmos”—but those words describe the Doctor himself perfectly, don’t they? To his enemies, the Doctor is the most feared being in the cosmos, and they’ve teamed up to do something about it, devising the Pandorica as an elaborate trap for the time-traveling do-gooder. The Doctor—in this incarna…

Rome vs. the Sisters

By Marian Ronan

…ns of sisters dedicated to serving the needs of the sick and the poor, the new Vatican Code of Canon Law cloistered them all, imposing rigid rules that undercut their ministries. As the century moved on, however, relations between the Vatican and the sisters seemed to improve. In its effort to respond to the horrors of the twentieth century, the Vatican ordered the sisters to become better educated, to update their rules and habits, and to begin m…

Monday Morning Gettin’ Right Music

By Lauri Lebo

…I adore these guys. Athens-based Packway Handle Band performing an old traditional aired on a BBC travel documentary about American folk music….

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…tt Romney would blend right in amongst the crowds here. But so would Marco Rubio. Or Antonio Villaraigosa. Or any clean-cut man in a white shirt and tie, any woman in Sunday dress with a baby stroller. I try to strike up a conversation with an African woman dressed in a pagne. “Where are you from?” I ask her. “Congo,” she says, then looks at me pityingly. “Je ne sais que parler francais,” she says. I do not speak French. But the Brazilian Mormon s…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…already implies. [NEAB Vice President Scott Stirm] also reported that the new Trump administration in Washington has committed to appoint a pro-family values US ambassador to Belize. That is what our recent petition, signed by almost 200 pastors, had requested. We needed such an ambassador in place of the pro-LGBT ambassador who had just stepped down. Spain: Conservative Catholic group runs into opposition with anti-trans bus tour HazteOir, the r…

Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…ping Angels are pretty darned scary, and “Blink”—written, incidentally, by new show-runner Stephen Moffat—was widely acclaimed, winning two BAFTAs and a Hugo. Needless to say, their return was much anticipated. There’s a bit of a parallel in this episode between the Angels and the religious-military hierarchy: both have hijacked religious terminology and/or imagery for decidedly non-spiritual purposes. That’s not to say that Father Octavian’s plat…

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…s positions have been compared to the Nazis, and his lectures have been disrupted all over the world by groups representing the handicapped. According to my friend Angela Creager (one of Singer’s colleagues and a professor of the history of science at Princeton), Singer is a kind man moved by compassion. Nevertheless, he seems not to understand how his ideas strike others; for instance, as evidenced by his protesters, people with disabilities. Sin…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…words. He was a writer-in-residence at a small women’s college in upstate New York. Boo Boo was a married mother of three, and the twins, Walt and Walker were, respectively, an accidental casualty of the occupation of Japan and a Jesuit priest working in South America. Zooey (Zachary Martin Glass) was an aspiring actor in 1955, and the youngest daughter, Franny, was on leave from her college due to a spiritual malaise that brought her to the brin…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

…Apostle Paul finding his vocation as a missionary,” wrote the Los Angeles Times. Videos of these speeches still float around YouTube, where seemingly pirated compilations like “Timeless Wisdom Of Mark Hughes DVD Collection – Volume 2 – Foundational Concepts” rack up tens of thousands of hits. Hughes’ rhetoric is relentlessly focused on the future, and profoundly democratic—no matter what your background, Hughes insists, it is possible to get rich…

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…he sacral element of what the convoy is doing. One comment, from southeast New York despite the text, reads, “YOU GUYS GOT OUR BACK! I WISH I COULD SEND A HUNDRED! HANG IN THERE YOU CRUSADERS FOR FREEDOM AND STRIKE BACK AT THIS EVIL FORCE WHICH TREATS US LIKE PEASANTS WHO HAVE NO SAY IN OUR OWN AFFAIRS. I WILL GIVE MORE NEXT WEEK, I PROMISE. MAY GOD BE BESIDE YOU AS YOU STAND FOR EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS PLANET, ESPECIALLY ALSO FOR 1ST WORLD AUSTRALI…