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Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…oing fineoutside of the U.S., particularly in the Middle East and Latin America, the American soap just isn’t what it used to be. In 1970, when American women were more likely to be at home during the day, there were fifteen daytime soaps on the air, with new shows continuing to debut every year. Forty years later, only seven soaps remain, all of them aging. (The newest of these is more than twenty years old.) More alarmingly for fans, timeworn fa…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…plenary stage. “America is a gynocracy”—male supremacy Declaring that “America today is a gynocracy,” Azerrad claims that it’s ruled, along with the rest of the West, by a “feminine spirit which is at war with almost all traditional expressions of masculinity.” Furthermore, “what the regime hates is masculine men, who refuse to bend the knee; men who are courageous enough to say out loud what the rest of us are whispering.” Azerrad believes that…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…rogram in 1945 he introduced his largely white audience to the legendary African-American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson; and in 2001, he wrote “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” a book about attitudes on religion and death. Terkel supported Sen. Barack Obama. According to Edward Lifeson, who usually blogs about architecture at Hello Beautiful, Terkel offered this advice to the candidate: I’d ask Obama, do you plan to follow up on the program of the…

10 Media Rules for Effective Theology

By Cynthia B. Astle

…a devoted pamphleteer, never had an unpublished thought. If he were alive today, there’d be a “Grace-Upon-Grace.com” web site emitting plenty of tweets, pokes and emails. Follow his example. 9. Lose the old polarities. Again, ’tis sacrilege to suggest that liberal-conservative poles no longer define theological argument. However, the waning influence of the religious right, demonstrated by the election of a U.S. president who’s trying to reach be…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…financial doom while their futures were sold from the rich to the richer. Today, as we think about how commitments must be contemplated in the context of right and wrong, of earth and heaven, we know that those notes have no moral weight, that banks can’t and shouldn’t own the futures of people who work, and that it’s time for the bankers to abandon their claims on everyday people’s futures. I will leave it to another [on this day] to think about…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…bsolute devotion to the sex, violence, and drugs of the film. Christianity Today’s review makes one wonder why they even reviewed it in the first place, as it seems to indicate the film has nothing to do either with “Christianity,” or “today” for that matter. More specifically, it’s curious how few religiously-oriented reviewing outlets were able to see possible symbolic references to, say, Abraham and Isaac, Jesus, or others. So, I’m left wonderi…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…s in the 2oth century who occupied the first chair in Jewish history in America at Columbia University, is today almost unknown in the public domain. His career of more than half a century changed the scope of understanding of Jewish history, and yet if we read books like those of Weiss’ or Wistrich’s, one would never know it. In an essay called “Newer Emphases on Jewish History,” published relatively late in his career in 1963, Baron wrote: All m…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…n creatures living hundreds of millions of years ago. Meyer observes that, today, when we see something intricate and functional—such as a computer or a can opener—we assume that it’s been designed by some intelligence. Consequently, extrapolating from present observations into the past, the design of an intricate and functional thing—say, a trilobite—must also be produced by an intelligence. This logic, he claims, is “tested against the cause-and…

Study Shows Mainline Women Clergy Are Significantly More Progressive Than Their Male Counterparts

By Melissa Deckman

…nder gaps among mainline clergy extend to broader protections for LGBTQ Americans. Today, women clergy overwhelmingly (96%) favor laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing, compared with 88% of men clergy. Women clergy (86%) today are also more likely than men (64%) to oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse, on the basis of their beliefs, to p…

Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Reintroduced in Parliament Today

By Peter Montgomery

…pressure, including condemnation from the U.S. State Department, but its backers have never given up. The legislation and the violent anti-gay rhetoric promoted by its supporters have been part of a wave of anti-gay campaigns in Africa backed by American anti-gay evangelicals. That campaign has had deadly consequences: just over a year ago, Ugandan gay-rights activist David Kato was murdered. It is not clear how quickly the legislation will move…