Bad Magic: Voodoo According to Disney
Disney’s first black heroine, yes, but this is a case of one step forward, two steps back—the film’s representation of Voodoo is prejudiced and misinformed.
By the Way: The Rove of the Religious Right, A Eulogy
“Evil Genius” Paul Weyrich’s legacy of a conservative revolution may be coming to a close.
Evil has been a favorite foreign policy tool for conservatives in and around the Bush Administration; problem is, there are often unintended consequences.
Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback
The proper role of government is to punish evildoers, Pastor Rick Warren tells Sean Hannity. If the Rev’s read is to be believed, the United States is in deep trouble.
RD10Q: Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy
Whether or not we believe in evil as a supernatural force it cannot be denied that when we as a culture project the idea of evil outwards, onto others, it gives us license to engage in extreme forms of cruelty—witch-hunting, racism, nationalistic hatred.
Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead
This Halloween, apart from your garden-variety ghouls, skeletons, monsters, witches, vampires and zombies, Americans will be visited by the ghosts of past presidents, the spirits of dead soldiers, and by the souls of those who endured slavery. It is a season of reckoning, both social and political. The election, on the other hand, is about life, today, now. Or is it?
The Question of Evil: Politicians Weigh In
What the presidential candidates' responses to a question about the nature of evil reveal about the state of American Christianity...
It is not terrorism which should occupy our attention, so much as the dangerous proliferation of new and indiscriminate weapons...
Sacred&Profane: American Martyrdom
America has defined itself through identification of evil enemies and shared grief for heroes who die fighting them...
Megachurch Pastor Rod Parsley calls for America to “fulfill its divine purpose” by destroying “this false religion.”