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Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…lks) seriously forces us to reconsider at profound levels many of our taken-for-granted assumptions about religion. If we take the Sisters seriously, we’re forced to redefine the category of “nun” rather than to refuse the Sisters membership to that category. Is there anything you had to leave out? TONS! The first draft of the chapter on the history of the order was 70 pages. In fact, the history of the worldwide order could easily be a book in it…

Dear Pew, What of Jewish Agnostics?

By Naomi Seidman

…hey freely choose. If I were lucky enough to have been asked to take their test (and I keep hoping someone will give me a test like that, but no one ever does), it would have been up to me to decide which is MORE true, that I’m Jewish or that I’m an atheist/agnostic. If Jewish is just my “ethnicity,” and this was a quiz about religion, then maybe the atheist/agnostic category was more relevant. Or if the categories assumed that atheist/agnostic al…

Hobby Lobby Aftermath: Christian College Demands an Exemption…from the Exemption

By Nomi Stolzenberg

…titutions. Plan C was devised by the Health and Human Services Agency to accommodate non-profit religious institutions by allowing them an exemption from the contraceptive mandate. It is that plan to which Wheaton College and its fellow travelers object. The outcry that has greeted Thursday’s decision is understandable. By granting a temporary injunction in favor of Wheaton College, the Court suggested that the very alternative it had suggested wa…

Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…he living room, wrapped in a quilt I’m waiting on this fat red suit wearing-comparing My gifts to my homeboy next door to me A gift here, none there, but who cares My little sister needs a comb just to braid her nappy hair But here we go again waiting on the enemy To slide down the chimney Look here, that ain’t reality Clearly, Snoop is referencing the traditional depiction of Santa as white as “the enemy.” A similar suspicion in the song is utter…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…eption of Christ’s atoning work is of the standard, unreconstructed, washed-in-the-blood variety. For them, discovering what Jones is writing about would come as manna in the wilderness, and in that regard Jones has performed a mitzvah by publishing this book. “Penal substitution” is the proper name for the viewpoint Jones wishes to challenge. The doctrine holds that God’s holiness is sufficiently offended by human sin, and by my sin in particular…

Hipsters vs. Hasids, Round: Yawn

By Evan Derkacz

…cy, have mercy upon our generation that is weak, and remove this difficult test from these people, these immoral antagonists that by their doing will multiply, God forbid, the excruciating tests and the sight of the impurity and immorality that is growing in the world. And here we live in fear that owing to the encroachment of these individuals upon our community we will not be able to teach our sons and daughters according to the methods of Isra…

The Latest on Zubik v. Burwell: Religious Orgs Propose a Compromise That They Themselves Would Oppose

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…romise solution that would ensure employees and their families receive cost-free contraceptive coverage without a burdening the employers’ religious beliefs. The case, Zubik v. Burwell, involves a number of religious nonprofits that object to the existing religious accommodation they receive under the ACA. The current accommodation allows religious employers that do not wish to provide birth control coverage to their employees to opt out by submit…

Would Tea Partiers Consider Jefferson a Heretic?

By Lauri Lebo

…Founding Fathers. (The film company also produces movies that take an anti-evolution and pro-End Times perspective.) Needless to say, their historical accounting of the Founding Father’s faith should be taken with a grain of salt. But their alternative Christian take on the Constitution is an interesting one for those who follow attacks by the religious right on civil liberties. From the web site: 1) The faith of Thomas Paine — the man who inspir…

Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable

By Noah Berlatsky

…at this melodramatic theater of the apocalypse, the whole genre of disaster-as-entertainment, actually makes it harder for citizens and governments to take the steps they need to prepare for catastrophe. The problem is that people don’t want dull disasters—or, at least, many parties benefit from the excitement caused by catastrophe. “[M]edia has a strong incentive to sell copy or images,” Dercon told me by email. “This means that the early stages…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…say in your book and in numerous interviews that there’s always been a tug-of-war between a broadly egalitarian and democratic strain in American religion and a broadly hierarchical and authoritarian strain, with white supremacy playing a far more central role on the anti-democratic side. We’ve certainly seen a strong authoritarian strain emerging in our politics. How is authoritarian religion fueling open contempt for democratic governance and t…