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What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ompletely own is that in many ways Lost is a mash-up/remix of our favorite stories, whether that’s Bible stories from Sunday school or Narnia or Star Wars or the writings of John Steinbeck. Carlton and I both had to take philosophy classes when we were in college, and we talk about philosophy, so when certain ideas started to present themselves on the show, we just wanted to let the audience know that these philosophers are in our lexicon as story…

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…onnection between the material and spiritual universe, in which the single word ru’akh means wind AND breath AND spirit, has been lost in the spiritualizing afterlife of the Bible. Crumb’s illustrations do not merely restore the physical dimension suppressed by theologizing abstraction, at their best they convey that there are no differences between these realms, as there is none between—in one of the more charged corollaries of the distinction be…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…em’s taboo-busting gay bar attracts diverse crowd Eitan Arom at the Jewish News Service profiles Jerusalem’s only remaining gay bar: If any city needs a nonjudgmental space, it’s Jerusalem. Both sides of Israel’s capital—the Muslim eastern half and the Jewish western half—have in common large numbers of socially conservative residents who look down on homosexuality. “In the west, you have Orthodox Jews, and in the east you have Arabs—and the Arabs…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nnot simply “nudge off” the LGBT community. More from Joe Williams at Pink News: Arun Jaitley says that the country must reconsider the “conservative” ruling made by the Supreme Court in 2013, as it ignores the needs of “millions of people” across India. “When you have millions of people involved in this (gay sex) you can’t nudge them off,” he stated. He added that India’s approach to gay rights needs to be modernised, arguing that the law would h…

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…stry behind the Creation Museum. Over $1 million is designated for Campus Crusade for Christ (rebranded as “Cru” since 2011). $374,800 went to Al Hayat Ministries, an organization that seeks to “respectfully yet fearlessly unveil the deception of Islam,” and that runs an Arabic-language Christian satellite TV station with the goal of converting Muslims to Christianity. There’s a more direct way to approach the question of what the “He Gets Us” fol…

Another Slender Man Attack?

By Joseph Laycock

…against us. As folklorist Timothy Evans pointed out in The New York Times, stories of adolescents driven mad by Ouija boards, Dungeons & Dragons, and other deviant media are themselves a form of folklore. Ironically, our horror and fascination over these crimes makes Slender Man even more fascinating and fuels the legend complex further. Somewhat like the Greek myth of Cronus, Americans have a deep-seated fear that their children will overthrow t…

Planned Parenthood Gets Religious Support

By Patricia Miller

…gress. “From a moral and ethical point of view, the way this was done with videos that were recorded surreptitiously and the twisting of the truth to manipulate dumb politicians to do something that couldn’t be done otherwise, is fundamentally wrong,” he said. The faith leaders also rejected the idea that there is something antithetical about religious people supporting fetal tissue donation for scientific research (which Americans overwhelmingly…

The Role of Spirit in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: A Conversation with Activist and Artist Patrisse Cullors

By Hebah H. Farrag

…mmunities, it is really important that there is a connection to the spirit world,” she said. “For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions—how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how do I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life. People’s resilience, I think, is tied to their will to live, our will to survive, which is deeply spiritual.” “The fight to save yo…

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

….S. power aligned with the rise of Billy Graham (his famous New York City crusade was in 1957), the founding of Campus Crusade of Christ (1951), and other evangelical groups aiming to fulfill the Great Commission. Elliot’s story emerged at the center of the wave of these movements. As global capitalism began to make middle-class life more and more comfortable, something was needed shake people out of their settled religious ways. Human effort, to…

The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters

By Joseph Laycock

…g Campaign Because Everything Is Terrible.” Seventeen magazine’s coverage demanded, “Is Anything Sacred?!” Sacred indeed. Whatever else the Charlie Charlie phenomenon is, it demonstrates a longing to step outside a disenchanted world where the logic of the market rules and our hopes and dreams amount to market demographics. A terrifying demonic encounter at least would confirm that there is something real beyond a world dominated by media and simu…