When the Super Bowl halftime stage centered Grammy-winner Bad Bunny, Spanish was not a provocation — it was a translation of reality. What unfolded was not controversy but clarity: a portrait of the United States as it actually exists, a…
Kid Rock and evangelicals’ obsession with celebrity
In a world where everyone cycles through being an expert, the week after the Super Bowl typically turns into everyone posing as professional semioticians, offering their artistic analysis of the Super Bowl halftime show and the game. Most often, this…
Love on the loudest stage
When I watched Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio sing on the Super Bowl stage, I didn’t just hear music. I heard a prayer disguised as rhythm, a sermon stitched together with bass and breath. In a country that often tells people like me…
Robert Kraft’s ‘Dirty Jew’ Super Bowl ad criticized over ‘disconnected’ portrayal of school antisemitism
For the third straight year, Robert Kraft’s anti-antisemitism foundation is airing an ad during the Super Bowl, trying to bring the message of tolerance to the masses.
Group behind ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads partners with Alpha churches
Sunday’s broadcast of America’s most-watched sporting event will be the fourth to feature an ad asking viewers to reconsider Jesus. View it here. “More” is the title of this year’s 60-second “He Gets Us” ad, a fast-paced, visually jarring look…
For 2026 Super Bowl, ‘He Gets Us’ ad goes more personal, less political
Back in 2021, a group of evangelical families, including the founders of Hobby Lobby, began funding a new ad campaign, hoping to help skeptical Americans give Jesus a second look and to convince people to be a little kinder to one…
One Of The Super Bowl Losers Visits Trump In White House Before Champion Eagles
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker visited President Donald Trump on Thursday before the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, have yet to travel to the White House for the traditional winners celebration.
In New Orleans, Christians form a second line to counter Sean Feucht
On the eve of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, the “anti-vaccine, pro-Trump, guitar-strumming preacher” Sean Feucht staged a so-called Jesus March in the French Quarter of New Orleans. In addition to Feucht’s rise to fame for defying safety orders…
Super Bowl halftime DEI show: The Greatest Protest on Turf
No matter how far we’ve come, the needle on social progress and race relations often feels stuck. The Super Bowl, America’s biggest stage, only amplifies this reality. Despite the grand spectacle, the message is clear: Black Americans are largely showcased…
Jon Batiste and Come Near host pre-Super Bowl festival in New Orleans
Grammy Award-winning musician Jon Batiste is teaming up with the nonprofit organization behind the “He Gets Us” TV ads for a free festival to benefit New Orleans before it hosts Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX. Saturday’s “He Gets Us Presents Jon…
The Flea Flicker and other tricks from the fundamentalist playbook
The NFL is in the midst of the playoffs to see who will soon battle in Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Feb. 11. As the remaining contenders compete, coaches and players watch hours of film on their opponents…
United Methodists score 180,000 pounds of food for hungry people in Super Bowl challenge
Touchdown! Like a full-field kick-off return, United Methodists scored 180,000 pounds of food for hungry people in five states during a Super Bowl food drive challenge. United Methodists in four annual conferences — Great Plains (Kansas and Nebraska), Missouri, Eastern…