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Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…o can be white without words. This is even true of the digital age. Google search “Jesus” and we get hundreds of white images. If one wants other Christ figures, one must explicitly type “black Jesus,” “Asian Jesus,” “Chicano Jesus.” The color of Christ continues to reflect our racial realities and fantasies. In post-racial America that means rhetoric of being beyond color but still beholden to history and power of whiteness. Joanna Brooks: I th…

Finding Noah’s Flood: A Misconception of Biblical Proportions

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…rt special “Back to the Beginning,” (concluding this evening) of which the search for Noah’s Flood is but a small part, ABC TV’s promotional materials give life to the old myth: “now an acclaimed underwater archaeologist thinks he has found proof that the biblical flood was actually based on real events.” The acclaimed underwater archaeologist is none other than Robert Ballard, whose name is always and forever attached to his major discovery: the…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…e a “port” that is intended to connect with nature, but as you frantically search your surrounding environment, you simply don’t know where to plug this port in. You long to commune with a holy, green, transpersonal home, but you realize that you are destroying the closest thing you’ve got to that. It’s time to get back to the garden, your spirit whispers to you, but there is no garden, it appears, to get back to, and, what’s worse, it’s all your…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…with us and, unless the world is about to end, likely always will be. In Search of Collective Salvation One detail needs to be cleaned up first. The term “millennialism” does not refer to the year 2000, or the turning of the millennium. Rather, it takes its misleading name from the Christian belief that Christ will return to Earth and rule for one thousand years. The apocalypse, rapture, Second Coming—these are specific events in specific forms…

Elena Kagan and her Socialist Thesis

By Janine Giordano Drake

…When Kagan wrote the paper that Time’s David Von Drehle recently sought to search for clues, she only joined leagues of other labor historians in reflecting on what the Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit could have done differently during his attempts at strategizing alliances for reformation in the early 1910s in New York City. Labor historians far from Moscow (myself among them) are still exploring the different potential alliances that coul…

Progressive & Religious

By Robert P. Jones

…t one among religious leaders and the previous book, Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-assisted Suicide Debates, among both activists and religious leaders. As it stands, I’m thinking my next book will be more quantitative, drawing on survey data between 2000 and 2008. The book will focus on the sea change in the public face of religion during the first decade of the twenty-first century,…

“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale

By Jay Michaelson

…s well; these characters are not heroes but often sad, broken young men in search of meaning. But the stakes are higher there, for Dean, Sal, Dean’s girlfriend Marylou, and the other characters. They’re rebelling against something, even if they can’t articulate it, and they’re chasing something important, even if that, too, is difficult to convey. In the film, there is something exuberant about their quest, but it’s a little empty, too. And that h…

Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

By Paul Wallace

…“fists get tough and [his] wits get keen.” Sue roams from town to town in search of old Dad, looking for revenge. Eventually he catches up with him in a Gatlinburg bar and throws himself onto him with all the stored-up fury of a lifetime. Just as Sue has his father in his gun sights the old man looks at him, smiles, and explains that he gave him the name to make him strong. After all, his father knew he wouldn’t be around to teach him anything. H…

Appeals Court Eviscerates Notre Dame’s Objections to Contraception Accommodation

By Patricia Miller

…tive costs pick a health insurance company, maybe on the basis of a Google search, to contract with? As for Notre Dame’s fifth proposed solution, that it and other Catholic nonprofits be allowed to comply with the mandate by providing coverage for Natural Family Planning training and materials, Posner notes witheringly that this option “is not contraception at all.” In conclusion, Posner writes: The very word ’accommodation’ implies a balance of c…

The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

By Tom Hogan

…uals, governments and religious institutions. Their problem was that every search had to navigate around an awkward historical fact: the only known cure for genocide is armed intervention. Examine any major genocide of the past century: regardless of their causes and symptoms, they were all cured the same way—with guns and bombs. Outrage, shame, boycotts, threats of prosecution—none of them work like airstrikes and incursions. So for the past sixt…