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Things We Saw Today: Let’s Fall Asleep in this Star Wars Landspeeder Bed
Rooms To Go has a whole line of Star Wars furniture, including this landspeeder bed ($900), a Millennium Falcon bed, an X-Wing double bed ($1200), and a TIE Fighter desk ($400). They’re pricey pieces...
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Trump Supporters Are Now Going After the Pope With Biblesplaining Tweets -...
Of all the many, many people who have caught the ire of Donald Trump and his followers on Twitter, one of the strangest has to be Pope Francis. The public disagreements seem to have started about a...
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Feminism Around the World: Nicaraguan Woman Literally Demonized and Burned to...
Welcome to Feminism Around the World, a weekly feature here at TMS where we focus on women’s lives and feminist concerns around the world by applauding successes, reporting injustices, and amplifying...
View ArticleMayim Bialik Explains How Science and Religion Can Co-Exist, Basically...
As someone who loves science and also believes in a Higher Power, it is often difficult to be in conversations with people who lean more heavily in one direction or the other. I’ve spoken with...
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Muslim Teen Schools Internet on the Differences Between Religion, Culture,...
Feminism is ultimately about agency; about women being able to design their lives for themselves as freely as men do. And so, there’s nothing a woman can wear that is inherently oppressive. What...
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Once Again, Discriminatory Executive Order Is Why No One’s Sorry for Calling...
We’ve heard a whole lot about trying to understand Trump voters and their concerns since the election, but the more time goes by, the more evidence we see that we either understood them or what they...
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Far Cry 5 Ever-So-Poignantly Focuses on a Violent Religious Cult in Montana
Ubisoft just dropped its first full-length trailer for Far Cry 5, which is, poignantly enough, set in rural Montana and focuses on a religious cult that’s been “harvesting the souls” of the local...
View ArticleTwitter Shamed This Millionaire Televangelist Into Opening His Megachurch as...
Embed from Getty Images Pastor Joel Osteen runs the Lakewood megachurch in Houston, Texas. The church, being as mega as it is, used to be an indoor sports arena and is capable of holding nearly 17,000...
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The United Methodist Church Just Split Over Same-Sex Marriage
In a huge move, the United Methodist Church leadership has come to the agreement that the Church will split, based on continued conflict within their ranks over same-sex marriage, as well as the...
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Is Christianity in America Declining Thanks To Republican Assholery?
You don’t need to look further than the rash of bills in statehouses restricting access to abortion or aimed at denying healthcare and services to LGBTQ to know that Christianity has a strong...
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Midnight Mass Manages to Combine the Horror and Beauty of Faith
I really appreciated Midnight Mass for delivering a product that balanced out the dark, cult like aspect of faith, but also the things about it that can be beautiful. It was a slog at times, Mike...
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Supreme Court Conservatives Are Trying To Do Away Entirely With the...
The Supreme Court handed down a number of decisions today, and while none of them were Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization—the case that will dismantle Roe v. Wade according to a leaked...
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The Church Who Tried to Do Their Own Anti-LGBTQ ‘Hamilton?’ It Wasn’t Their...
It’s been a strange time for musical theater fans. From Barlow & Bear getting sued by Netflix—for ignoring Netflix’s requests of them—to now a church deciding to just do their own version of...
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I Regret To Inform You That TikTok Found the Worst Lego Knockoffs
As someone who didn’t grow up with money, I’m firmly pro-Lego knockoffs. In addition to their accessibility, other Lego-type materials have existed forever because people like to build things,...
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Comedian Makes the Best Case for Mario’s Religion
Comedian Nathaniel Rosenberg has investigated Mario’s religion, and makes a pretty good case for the character’s affiliation. Now it is probably difficult for most of us to think of Mario as being...
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The Irreverent Mysticism in ‘Mrs. Davis’ Is Exactly What We Need Right Now
The series finale of Mrs. Davis dropped last Thursday, capping off a weird and twisty tale about artificial intelligence, free will, and faith. Created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof, the series...
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‘Shiny Happy People’ Reveals Who the Real Predators Are
Conservatives love to throw around vile accusations about LGBTQ+ people. Trans people are pedophiles! Queer folks are groomers! As is always the case with religious fanatics, though, it’s all...
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Judge Orders Airline Lawyers To Take “Religious-Liberty” Training From Hate...
An employee of Southwest Airlines brought an employment discrimination case on the basis of religion, which concluded on August 7, 2023. The case ended with Trump-appointed judge Brantley Starr...
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Jill Duggar’s Revelation of How Her Parents Treat Her Is Heartbreaking but...
Jill Duggar Dillard is telling all in her new memoir, Counting the Cost, and one particularly heartbreaking revelation about her parents’ treatment of her that should be surprising, sadly isn’t. The...
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Rob Reiner and Christian Leaders Probe the Danger of Christian Nationalism in...
Prolific filmmaker Rob Reiner is tackling Christian nationalism in his new documentary God & Country. The documentary will explore the danger that Christian nationalism poses, not just to the...
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