#MeToo and the Problem with the “The Billy Graham Rule”
Billy Graham, Sunday School teacher, failed salesman, and cold-war fear-monger died last week at the…
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How Prince Set Fire to My Catholic Girlhood
Prince is dead. Long live Prince. The morning after Prince’s death was announced, I woke…
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American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets
A handful of conservative groups are frothing at the mouth over the current season of American…
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What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves
There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them…
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How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism
An interview with Leslie Dorrough Smith on her new book, “Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America.”
Read MoreFRC’s Perkins Selling Straight Hot Sex
Perhaps they’re hoping the great sex will make up for lack of food and shelter.
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“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale
I’m not here to kvetch about the adaptation of a landmark book into film. That is boring. And I really enjoyed On the Road the movie, which features some truly inspired casting, excellent performances all around, and a much stronger integration of the writer’s voice with the action of the film than, for example, the somewhat clunky Howl. What I am interested in is the way in which On the Road’s spiritual essence has been diluted.
Read MoreWho Cares about what Augustine had to Say about Akin and Rape?
You do, internet.
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‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church
A pair of historians discuss Republican rep. Todd Akin’s remarks on “legitimate rape”: the female body carries a huge burden of representation: her ability to protect the boundaries of her body, and to maintain her purity, reflects the church’s ability to do the same.
Read MoreIs Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?
Assessing the evidence that he’s not a card-carrying member of the religious right.
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