Archives of Kyle Cupp
As someone who tries to follow closely the intersections of religion and politics, I am intrigued by Romney’s recent television ad (embedded below) in which he essentially takes a limited pro-choice philosophical position. The...
Eban Alexander has journeyed to heaven and returned to tell the tale. In addition to writing an upcoming book, he chose to publish his private revelation in the pages of Newsweek. He’s a neurosurgeon,...
Romney started a meme with his factually questionable “Show me the women” answer to yesterday’s debate question about equal pay for men and women, but I cringed more at Obama’s poorly stated response. The...
In my latest at Vox Nova, I look at the relationship of faith and love. A sample: The faith for which I strive doesn’t give me certainty about the origins of the cosmos or...
I want to echo what Jason Kuznicki writes on the front page about President Obama’s secret kill list and what it means for our democracy. Especially this: He deserves to lose. And worse. He...
As if further evidence were needed, pro-lifers just received another reality check that Mitt Romney doesn’t give a discarded gray hair for their cause. He told The Des Moines Register today that “there’s no...
I’m trying to think of a more superficial assessment of American religiosity than this Washington Post piece about Romney capturing the “God vote” at the debate, but nothing comes to mind. Zack Beauchamp calls...
I learned from my brother-in-law, a respectable devotee of Rush, that the band has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a nice but more or less meaningless honor. Their sound...
My imagining of God has evolved some over the years as I’ve moved from accentuating figures and terms of power (almighty, omnipotent) to highlighting those of humility (kenosis, self-emptying, weakness). These days I am...
The cannibal almost always plays the role of radical other in popular imagination: he or she is a super-creepy sociopath, a monster such as a witch or a wendigo, or a savage not fit...
