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Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…erate outburst. Even as the Zoe/Avatar/Cylon (ZAC) itself struggled with a new identity (“Do I look male?”) and old/new ways of being in the world (bite enemies, hug friends), she was seen for herself by one whose sight could be trusted. Did you catch the family dog snuggling contentedly at ZAC’s feet? Animals don’t lie; at least not on television. This was a come-to-Lassie moment. What makes us human? And why do we assume that being human constit…

“I had been part of the problem of Islamophobia”: Pastor Danny Cortez On This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. Conservative evangelical pastor, Danny Cortez, changed his mind on LGBTQ equality. The first person he told was his teenage son, Drew, who moments later came out as gay. That moment changed their lives forever and brought one of them close to death. In interviews with each of them, we learn about the triumphs and troubles that followed. (Subscribe and listen to the…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ullian Tchividjian, grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, to be their new pastor. According to Charisma News Online, “As part of Tchividjian’s election, the 2,200-member congregation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, agreed to merge with Tchividjian’s 650-member New City Church, also located in the Fort Lauderdale area.” Kennedy was a profoundly political and powerful conservative pastor, albeit lesser-known than the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Dr. James…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…and the priest towards the transcendent. It is almost entirely unlike the new Mass with its greater focus on interaction, mutuality, community, and its consequent admission of more of the quotidian world into the act of worship. For some of those who spent a lifetime committed to the Latin Mass, its absence in those dioceses most committed to reform must have been a sharp disappointment. Mass at St. Joan of Arc It’s possible that Church authoriti…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…s too much. The power of this trope played out in 1996, when a reporter in New York vanished while doing a story on the vampire community. As I describe in the book, she was almost certainly killed by the Russian mafia. There is a certain romance in imagining that she was taken by vampires, but it is irresponsible to promote such a theory. I have encountered several cases of vampires suffering harassment, and this may become worse as awareness of…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…ts were oppressive when they protected reproductive and gender rights (or “new” rights), whereas, when it came to protecting “traditional” rights to freedom of religion and speech, they were suddenly fundamental. New rights, they argued, cannot supersede traditional human rights. When they do, these rights violations must be redressed. This very argument is being used in the debate over the Obama health care reform law, one of the main objections…

Does Religion Drive Evolution? And Other Questions from the Cutting Edge of Biohistory

By Arri Eisen

…volution analysis, as well as the broad conclusions, like that of the Tay-Sachs hypothesis, which have not yet been experimentally demonstrated. Personally, my bet is with the new data and interpretations. The intriguing part will be to see how these new data and ideas get integrated into our culture….

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…progressive demographics. That, at least, is my grim takeaway from PRRI’s new report, “The Politics of Gender, Pronouns, and Public Education.” The overall positions of various demographics are mostly what you would expect them to be. The report singles out White evangelical Protestants multiple times as, unsurprisingly, America’s most singularly anti-trans demo. In 2021, for example, 86% of White evangelicals said there are only two genders, wit…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…the conventions and things go dark for a couple of weeks,” Warren told the New York Times. “I’ve known both the guys for a long time, they’re both friends of mine, and I knew them before they ran for office, so I just called them up.” According to press reports, the questions will center on AIDS, poverty, human rights and the environment. Not everyone was thrilled by the choice of topics. In his daily FRC Action Update (July 21), the Family Resear…

“Charity saved the day… [but] charity isn’t enough”: Kate Bowler on This New Era

By The Editors

…at is one of the biggest transformations that has occurred for you in this new era? My stage four cancer diagnosis came at the same time as this election. Everyone I knew was experiencing a lot of hopelessness. The lack of hope almost has an apocalyptic quality to it, and I thought a lot about that because I’m just trying to figure out the nature of hope for me if it doesn’t mean certainty. In this season of intense hopelessness, our personal conn…