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Mythmaking 101, or, Why We Believe in Death Panels

By Kenny Smith

…e example of a magazine cover image of a young man of African descent in a French military uniform, saluting with eyes uplifted. Simple enough. On the level of myth, though, much more is intended, namely: that France is a great Empire, that all her sons, without any color discrimination, faithfully serve under her flag, and that there is no better answer to the detractors of an alleged colonialism than the zeal shown by this [young man] in serving…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…t beer? Trump, who wouldn’t know an American-style pale lager from a trash French saison, rode to victory in 2016 on the wings of 80,000 votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. If Democrats’ dour presidential candidates would only speak the everyday language of Budweiser, Bell’s Brewery, and Rolling Rock; if they would only punch through the taboo of being seen with a Yuengling in hand, why, they could take the white working class back in a…

Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science

By Lauri Lebo

…re two Louisianas. The southern half, a mélange of ethnicities of Spanish, French, Acadians and descendants of slaves, in which Catholic and African religious traditions intermingle. And then there is the northern half of the state with its white Anglo evangelical heritage. It’s this divide that has made her state a hotbed for the religious right. The Louisiana Family Forum, a state affiliate of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family draws much of its…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…ticket involving a veiled woman in France has intensified controversy over French anti-veil legislation. Regardless of whether or not you get the religion of soccer, seminarians in Rome are quite happy to put on a pair of cleats. Forget the U.S. tie with England, I’m more interested in the Redemptoris Mater win over the North American Martyrs. Back in Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahoney defends his decision not to tell police about abuse within th…

Smelling the Sacred: Better (Lived) Religion Through Chemistry

By Donovan Schaefer

…d when people are gathered together in a spirit of excitement, such as the French Revolution or the Australian aboriginal “corroboree” celebration. But what is this effervescence? Durkheim doesn’t know, suggesting only that “[t]he initial impulse is thereby amplified each time it is echoed, like an avalanche that grows as it goes along.” As this new research suggests, to understand effervescence, we may have to go beyond the familiar markers of ex…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…?” I think we Americans mostly think about the American Revolution and the French Revolution when we set up a secular government. But there were people in the ancient world that tried to create a secular relationship to government where nobody else did—and those people were Jews. Because the government of the nations that conquered them—Egypt and Babylonia and Syria and the Hellenistic Empire of Alexander the Great and Rome—were all religious empi…

Katie Britt Wants You to Be Afraid — It’s the Fuel That Feeds Conservative Power

By Daniel Schultz

…assette tapes—albeit with a much deeper reach than earlier iterations. The French philosopher Guy Debord criticized such performative attempts to fit in as “spectacle,” defined as social connection formed through participation in commodified identities. Debord called spectacle “nothing more than an image of happy unification surrounded by desolation and fear at the tranquil center of misery.” Looking through all the carefully curated homey-ness, i…

Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story

By Joseph Laycock

…formance of a black mass based on descriptions from the nineteenth-century French novel La-bas. Two actors dressed as a nun and a priest would have performed a ritual in liturgical Latin. A prop representing a communion wafer would have been stepped on or otherwise defiled. It was this last detail that became the focus of the controversy. A number of Catholics, including Patheos blogger Elizabeth Scalia, contacted The Satanic Temple to ask whether…

Manly Prayers at Penn State

By Sean S. O'Neil

…iday, Major League soccer player David Testo revealed that he was gay in a French-language radio interview in Canada. All his teammates knew about his orientation, and according to Testo they were supportive. To my knowledge, though, there have still not been any gay players who have used progressive or liberal religious terms when coming out. If the only religious voices heard on the fields are the most conservative on issues of human sexuality,…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…e supremacist movements.” I catch up with the Rev. David Ostendorf by cell phone while he is waiting for a plane at an East Coast airport. He is the executive director of the CNC where Ward works. Ostendorf, A United Church of Christ minister, once led PrairieFire Rural Action, a group that tried to save family farms during a major agricultural economic crisis in the 1980s. “Back then we helped build a popular economic political movement among fam…