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   A Funny, Chilling, Serious, Even-Handed Look at Bush's Religion Jeff Sharlet: This Friday, March 2, the Center for Religion and Media will present a free screening of With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right (David Van Taylor and Calvin Skaggs, 1996, 100 min.) at New York University's King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South at 3 pm, followed by a discussion with filmmaker David Van Taylor which I'll be moderating. The Financial Times calls With God On Our Side "both chilling and funny." What do those Brits know? The Chicago Tribune says: "Required viewing! Serious, in-depth and even-handed... A compelling history of the evangelical movement's agenda and growing political strength over the last 40 years." [ Continue reading: ] Great Minds Declassified! Henry Kissinger and Kirk Douglas discuss God and hot girls.... [ Continue reading: ] How to Make a Martyr "A martyr’s story tends to eclipse both the martyr and his message," writes Martyn Oliver. So it was with Mansur al-Hallaj, a Sufi teacher executed in Baghdad in 922, and so may it be with Saddam... [ Continue reading: ] Out, Out, Damned Christians Out magazine didn't post their feature on queer evangelicals in last month's (February) issue, but it's worth finding the hard copy if you can. The subjects of this story aren't simply gay men who happen to be Christian, a rather... [ Continue reading: ] Talking about Into Great Silence Angela Zito: "Tiny bottle of Chartreuse in hand, I emerged in mid-town a few weeks ago from watching Into Great Silence, my promised dinner date long-gone. The two-hour documentary about a monastery that I'd thought I was going to see had morphed into an amazing three-hour experience of silent imagery." [ Continue reading: ]  My Secret War Jeff Sharlet: Alan Jacobs, a literature scholar at evangelical Wheaton College, did not like my recent Harper's essay, "Through a Glass, Darkly." In his online column for Books & Culture -- sort of a Christian New York Review of Books -- he accused me of being a member of a new "know-nothing party," "largely or wholly innocent of religious culture, religious language, and religious belief," waging "war on religion." I've been discovered.... [ Continue reading: ]  Revealer Plug Special Upcoming events: Desecrations, screenings, nominations, new publications [ Continue reading: ]  Everybody Loves Jesus Or, the unofficial lobbying fest known as the National Prayer Breakfast. By Jeff Sharlet. [ Continue reading: ] |