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Beck’s Distortions Of It’s A Wonderful Life Mirror His Distortions Of Current Events

By Lauri Lebo

…iron-fisted monopoly on the town. He also neglects to mention that Bedford Falls’ survival was due to competition from the Bailey Bros. Building & Loan, a communally owned organization. And here’s a crucial historical fact Beck omits: During the Great Depression, the government passed legislation in response to the kind of monopolies that Mr. Potter’s bank held in small communities and their predatory mortgage lending practices. This government in…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ore from the Blade’s Michael Lavers: Javier Soto, a pastor from the resort city of Viña del Mar, is among the most outspoken critics of the expansion of relationship recognition and other rights to LGBT Chileans. He said God sparked a massive forest fire in the coastal city of Valparaíso last April because lawmakers were considering the civil unions measure. Soto frequently confronts Rolando Jiménez, president of the Movement for Homosexual Integr…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed chicanery; it was terrifying, and all too human. The wolves outside the city walls threaten the life of the city. The wolves hidden among us may threaten the city even more. These are powerful mythic tropes, both the Greek and Roman ones. But the werewolf appears to be an Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic, rather than a Greco-Roman, myth. And what is most striking about these “werewolves” is that they are even more wolf-like than the wolves are. More pr…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…-glorification… my individualism is really an illusion. I am a part of the great whole, and I can never escape. But I can deny my connections, break them, and become a fragment. Then I am wretched. Whether Locke or Shephard or Austen are saviors or demons does not matter. The hero is the community, the living together. The greatest fiction of Lost is the apocalyptic tale that we are individuals, that it is survival of the fittest. Lost then, is th…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…the area lost their jobs. Beck claims the town “is fighting to be Bedford Falls, not Pottersville.” Now, I’m a great fan of It’s a Wonderful Life, which is set in the fictional town of Bedford Falls. Sure, it’s overly sentimental—Capra-corn, as it’s often called. But there are some terrific themes in that movie. Dare I even say it? Terrific progressive themes. So I was curious how Beck was going to claim this movie for his own. Well, according to…

Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…tails on LDS pride parade contingents here.) First up is June 3, Salt Lake City. I spoke with Erika Munson, organizer of Salt Lake City’s Mormons Building Bridges group, a contingent of at least 100 self-described “active, faithful” Mormons that has been invited to walk at the head of the Salt Lake City pride parade. How did you come to organize Mormons Building Bridges? I’ve been active in the LDS Church all my life. I was a teenager in Boston du…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ericans with financing conspiracy against her A feud between former tennis greats continued, with Martin Navratilova calling for the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed for former aboriginal tennis star Evonne Goolagong after Court publicly opposed marriage equality and declared she would boycott Qantas airline “where possible” to protest the company’s support for marriage equality. She also told a Christian radio station that “tennis is full of le…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…e Delta, tells a story of faith, famine, and the fight for survival in the Great Depression South. RD’s Eric C. Miller spoke with Greene about her project. No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta Alison Collis Greene Oxford, December 2015 Your book issues a corrective to one popular but inaccurate narrative about the Great Depression and those who struggled through it. What is th…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…waste American money to buy their expensive oil when we could have our own cheap oil?” “Why is he trying to make rich people poor?” “How is it right to punish rich people for working hard and realizing the American Dream?” It was late on a Friday night and I was tired, so I half-heartedly responded by explaining that there are other factors to consider in every charged question she’d been armed with. But I wondered, “Why the hell was the Salvation…

Missouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…’t you give us a little bit of the background on your August speech to the City Council? What was the resolution, and how did you decide to take the approach you did? As you can imagine in a city such as Springfield (located in the heart of the Bible Belt with several religiously-affiliated schools and universities), any ordinance that seeks to affirm gays and lesbians and secure equal protections for their rights is going to come under all kinds…