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Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…Lobért appreciates the allure of her former lifestyle. Calling herself a hooker for Jesus, she has set out to “hook, help, and heal” those still in the industry. Lobért, a curvy peroxide blonde, has been unabashed in flaunting her God-given gifts to draw attention to her Vegas-based ministry, Hookers for Jesus. At the 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo, for example, a 40-year-old Lobért (dressed in a tight black tank top with strategically placed pink…

Wall St., Main St., Religion, and the Bailout

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nt state of our economic affairs. At first glance, Main Street in Quitman looks like those in a hundred other small southern townships, ones that withered on the vine when cotton was no longer king and the textile industries moved overseas. There are some gorgeous old homes in the area, mute testimony to the township’s economic prowess in another time, but there are many more trailers parked in a state of semi-permanence here now. The outskirts of…

NC’s Gay Marriage Ban: “It’s Going to Hurt the Church”

By Nicole Greenfield

…ered in Durham, North Carolina a couple weeks ago. Bakker, pastor of the Brooklyn-based Revolution NYC, had traveled south to his home state—the state that, decades ago, witnessed firsthand the rise, and then the fall, of his televangelist parents’ PTL ministry—to speak out against a ballot initiative up for vote tomorrow. If passed, Amendment 1 would modify North Carolina’s constitution to declare “marriage between one man and one woman” as “the…

Who’s to Blame for BP?

By David True

…hat BP actually cleans up its mess? The federal government, of course. In coordination with many partners, it is the ultimate guarantor that BP will make good on its promise to restore environments, businesses, and individuals. There’s a second irony to the “accidents happen” interpretation; that this is precisely what the libertarian theory of Paul and Perry seems to deny about individuals. If someone is poor, it seems to follow necessarily that…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…ns. In the past month, however, Canadians who follow the news have had to look their own racism, sexism, and criminality straight in the eye. In the space of two weeks in February 2018, two juries acquitted white men accused of murdering young Indigenous people, raising charges of systemic injustice from Indigenous communities and their settler allies. In 2016, Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old from Red Pheasant First Nation, was shot in back of the h…

Health Care Acrimony Will Only Get Worse

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

I try my best to avoid my sister on Facebook. Don’t get me wrong, I love her dearly, but since she is a staunch Republican and a very conservative Christian, we don’t have a lot to talk about when it comes to politics and religion. I tend to let her status updates slide by unchallenged, but I couldn’t help commenting on her latest one protesting about health care reform. My sister, who works for the US Postal Service, is enrolled in what she call…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…tening the safety of elected officials, and waving a Confederate flag for good measure. In response, President Trump repeated his false claims of election fraud, calling the insurrectionists “very special” and saying to them, “We love you.” President-Elect Biden’s response was impassioned, and rightly condemned the seditious assault on the Capitol, but it was also inadequate precisely because he continued to trade in language that fits with easy c…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…ng the melee of combat under the control of its sober-minded masters. The book leads us through a dazzling menagerie of historical gizmos, ingenious weapons, and pseudoscientific disciplines. Through them, he suggests that the preferred instruments of warfare express the whole meaning-making apparatus of the society from which they come. The progression begins with the early modern world’s competing kingdoms and ends with the mess of the present,…

Are American Christians “Persecuted”?

By Eric C. Miller

…rvative, calls the incident “a sobering reminder of what real persecution looks like.” Coming from Dreher, for whom the future of American Christianity looks increasingly ominous, the line is sobering in itself. But he goes on: Yet it is also the kind of thing that people in this country who fear and loathe Christians point to as an argument-ender when Christians complain about social injustice against themselves, e.g., “Get back to me when they’r…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…oast’s first for-profit meditation studio. As a cynic might point out, it looks an awful lot like a privatized temple—a sangha with a profit motive; dharma for dollars. The company does not phrase its mission in quite those terms. “MNDFL exists to enable humans to feel good,” the website explains. In its DNA, the company is one half executive, one half spiritual. Burrows is a film executive-turned-life coach-turned-“spiritual tourist,” while Rinzl…