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All hail the queen! Beyoncé takes the prime spot as the cover girl on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. And she's far from the only entertainer on the list. Also making the cut were actors Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, Kerry Washington and Robin Wright, along with musicians Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Carrie Underwood. But it's Beyoncé who gets top billing, having proven she can do it all - juggling motherhood with activism while, oh yes, reinventing how music is made, sold and performed. "Beyoncé doesn't just sit at the table.

All hail the queen! Beyoncé takes the prime spot as the cover girl on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. And she's far from the only entertainer on the list. Also making the cut were actors Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, Kerry Washington and Robin Wright, along with musicians Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Carrie Underwood. But it's Beyoncé who gets top billing, having proven she can do it all - juggling motherhood with activism while, oh yes, reinventing how music is made, sold and performed. "Beyoncé doesn't just sit at the table.

This article is available for free for Time magazine subscribers. Subscribe now.From the moment God declared, "Let there be light," Scripture christened light as holy and condemned darkness to hell. The Christian liturgy soaked in the theme in the centuries that followed. The Book of Common Prayer addresses God as "O Light" and begs, "Be our light in the darkness, O Lord." Hymns followed suit, from “Amazing Grace” to the hit "In the Light" from Christian hip-hop band dc Talk. But theologian Barbara Brown Taylor sees it differently. As impossible as it is to imagine faith without light, it...

Zombies are an apt metaphor for those who feel the emptiness of consumerism. The church offers the promise of new life

Zombies unlike vampires, or even werewolves, have no glamour. Since George Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, zombies in popular culture have been understood as the dead returned to life with an insatiable desire for human flesh. They are slow-moving, ugly, relentless and mindless. I have always been especially scared by them because, more than other monster, they represent our most unthinking and relentlessly hungry selves. They are interested in one thing only: consumption. And they can never be filled.

George Romero's later film Dawn of the Dead is set primarily in a shopping mall. Many of the zombies continue to push shopping carts around the mall and act as if they are still alive. Their prime remaining instinct is to shop. Though made in 1978, its...