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Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…ore biblical snippets here and there. The text that Michael has instructed Toller to use at his memorial service is the very last message for humanity that the Hebrew Bible attributes to God. As the Book of Job draws to a close, God rehearses the mysteries and wonders of the natural world and rebukes Job (and by extension all of us mortals) for our presumption of knowledge and control: “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? (etc….

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…licitly religious venues—Christianity Today, Hollywood Jesus, Catholic New Service, and Plugged In—scarcely noted the religious symbolism teeming in the film. Catholic News Service seemed more concerned about the blood and pole dances than anything else, while Focus on the Family’s Plugged In review was also startling in its absolute devotion to the sex, violence, and drugs of the film. Christianity Today’s review makes one wonder why they even re…

The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ed by badge and bullets—symbols of the Blue—distort a commitment to public service and safety by conflating their professional and personal identities, often allowing the former to overwhelm, even displace the latter. Blueness superseded the officers’ Blackness, along with their professionalism, training, and commonsense. Unfair burdens and absurd expectations are placed on Black people in Blue to radically transform a system that sprouted out of…

How Evangelical-Friendly Are Scientists? A Response

By Jonathan Orbell

…tly higher rates than evangelicals. Second, while evangelicals may pay lip service to the ideal of more scientific collaboration, it is clear they expect scientists to “meet in the middle” on theologically challenging issues. Scientists must, for example, be open to the idea that certain events cannot be explained through experimentation and observation; that they are miraculous. Aghapour’s conclusion then, is that evangelicals are not actually th…

RDBook: The Lost Scopes Archive

By Arri Eisen

…ok’s about the people, the moment, the context. LaFollette and the Science Service notes and pictures tell the story from the perspective of these two men on the scene who eventually lost all semblance of impartiality as journalists and wound up selling their stories of the trial to other media, advising the defense team, and generally hanging out at the headquarters of the defense; an old, quickly-refurbished house on the outskirts of Dayton. The…

Contrary to Popular Narrative the Supreme Court’s ‘303’ Decision Gutting Civil Rights Laws is not About an Individual Standing Up For Her Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…s (though the majority focused on speech this time, conspicuously avoiding freedom of religion). The biggest difference between the two cases, other than the outcome, is that the underlying dispute the court decided on today was entirely fabricated. It was fake. The company claimed the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act would have forced it to design wedding websites for LGBTQ couples. But when it filed the case, it didn’t even design wedding websit…

About That “Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage”

By Sarah Posner

…he signers claim is “God’s law.” At the heart of the pledge is not a plea for justice, but a plea for a legal system that yields to their religious views. A plea, in other words, to subvert the Constitution in the service of subverting the Constitution; to undermine the Establishment Clause in the service of depriving certain citizens, deemed sinful by a particular religious view, of equal protection of the law….

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, asserting such involvement by government in the work of NGOs would abuse freedom of association and expression. Organizations are also worried that if the bill is passed in its current state, it will hinder Ugandans from freely working with any local or international NGOs, as some activities, like those helping LGBT persons, might be viewed as illegal by the government. Argentina: Government recognizes three parents The government of Argentina h…

Doonesbury Comic Waxes Eloquent on the Greatness of Jesus, Slams Old Testament God

By Benjamin Weiner

…resources for another occasion. But I also don’t think Trudeau deserves a free pass, either. He has, let’s say unwittingly, conjoined and perpetuated two rather pernicious canards that still have traction in the contemporary world—all the more so given the current state of the economy, and the extent to which people with names like Bernie Madoff and Lloyd Blankfein have been used to metonymize what has been, in reality, a beautifully multi-cultur…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…their status in the country’s many Catholic schools, hospitals and social services. The change came as the worldwide Catholic Church debates loosening its traditional rejection of remarriage after a divorce and of gay sex, reforms for which German bishops and theologians have become prominent spokesmen. “The new rule opens the way for decisions that do justice to the situations people live in,” Alois Glueck, head of the lay Central Committee of G…