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‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…ight across the parade-ground, was a full-scale replica of the Buddhist Potala Temple in Jehol, China. Here, a religion was presented that was too different from the ones that were gracefully consumed in the “universal” Temple of Religion. Less popular than the main attraction, the mock-temple featured a show with nude female models in order to draw more visitors. *** Religious images were also gathered the 1867 International Exposition in Paris….

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…mplaint include: “Quixtar is an illegal pyramid scheme because most of its sales are to distributors rather than to retail customers.” “The defendants recruit distributors by making false or misleading statements.” “Quixtar products would be difficult to sell to unaffiliated consumers because they cost much more than similar products at retail outlets.” “Quixtar’s lowest-level distributors are instructed not to waste time on marketing and retailin…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…ding on the virtual world, users can choose gender, body type and size, profession—and sometimes even species. Turkle claims that when people select avatars they don’t simply “become who they play.” Rather, they “play who they are or who they want to be or who they don’t want to be.” The effect of interaction with and through one’s avatar can affect one’s daily life, since players often consider their virtual selves as representing some facet of t…

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…untry music industry and the struggle of insiders to navigate its murky professional and personal waters. Although not the buckle of the Bible Belt (that honor resides somewhere a little lower, in Alabama or Mississippi), Tennessee surely qualifies for a notch or two, and the intertwining roots of rural evangelicalism and country music stretch deep into the soil of American lore. And yet—bravely, naïvely, incredibly, perhaps disingenuously—ABC’s “…

Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?

By Peter Laarman

…with the very same fat cats Warren denounces; that lurches to proclaim Jerusalem the one and only capital of Israel even when it knows how catastrophically wrongheaded this is to the cause of justice and peace in the Middle East; that is quite obviously afraid to talk candidly about grinding poverty in America for fear of shattering the illusion that we’re all just middle-class folks about to recover fully from a GOP-induced hangover; and one that…

AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…at its very core. It’s only fitting that some elected Republicans have escalated their reverence for this symbol of mass killings with a drafted bill which would make the AR-15 into the country’s “national gun.” The full text of the bill hasn’t been provided yet, apart from a paragraph which states that the law would: “declare an AR-15 style rifle chambered in a .223 Remington round or a 5.56x45mm NATO round to be the National Gun of the United S…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…wheel to anybody but us. —Lee Scott, former Wal-Mart CEO I once worked professionally in the labor movement, and I often say that I have never felt the slightest discontinuity in moving from labor organizing and labor strategizing to ordained ministry. To me all of it has been the Lord’s work—and here is why. All the people straining at the gnats in biblical interpretation—namely, what God may or may not think about various forms of sexual expres…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…efore murdering his parents. We’re also asked to think about how the New Zealand shooter live streamed his actions, swaying the gun as if he was in a first person shooter game. Although not mentioned in the movie, I wondered about Grand Theft Auto and the dramatic rise of white supremacists using cars to attack protestors. If life looks like a simulation, like a first person shooter, Pothast explains, “you treat reality like [it is filled with] th…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…scourses commonly encourage. Have you ever noticed, for example, the colonial paradigm implicit in familiar calls for us to blast belly fat, fight cancer, conquer chronic pain, triumph over disability, defy aging and banish wrinkles? Once we recognize the controlling/conforming mentality that pervades the culture of physical improvement, we can begin to think about alternative approaches to health and healing—ones that honor the inescapable divers…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…o settle in Western Michigan, Northwestern Iowa, and a few other chilly enclaves. These “seceders” were unhappy that the Dutch government at the time (1840s) was doing away with some relics of the old Calvinist theocracy in the Netherlands—e.g., ending discrimination against Catholics and Jews (we can’t have that, can we?). In essence the Christian Reformed Church represented a further secession, only one taking place on American soil. Unlike the…