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Hockey Moms, Prayer Nazis, and Why I Love But Fear People Like Sarah Palin

By Valerie Bailey | September 14th, 2008 | Category: Issue 1, On Religious Life | 5 comments

Remember that really nice girl who greeted you warmly as a potential friend when you first arrived at college? Remember how she conscientiously invited you to dinner, or to study, or to her Christian fellowship activity? Remember the conversations about religion that you thought were a precursor to sharing secrets among friends? But then you expressed a different opinion, or you joined a liberal club, or you started to explore your sexuality, and suddenly, you felt a sharp pain in your back?  Betrayed by some evangelical whom you thought was a friend?


“Yes We Can” and The Politics of Transformation

By Jacqueline Hidalgo | June 13th, 2008 | Category: Issue 0, On Religious Life | No Comments »

One small viral video likewise typifies this longing for transformation, the will.i.am music video, “Yes We Can.” This musical alteration of Barack Obama’s speech, itself a riff on Dolores Huerta’s classic “Sí se puede,” promises change in the moment that we move to the ballot box and vote for Senator Obama. Parts fascism and Internet youth culture, the video moves us to conflate the solitary moment of a vote cast with instantaneous transformation into the change we seek.