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Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…ired from Fuller and moved to Colorado Springs! I felt like I worked at a catalog call-in center. Seriously. I would never have expected to be talking about Wagner in conjunction with the 2012 election cycle, but here goes: C. Peter Wagner was the Donald McGavran Professor of Church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary when I was there as a student in the early 1990s. He had had a career on the mission field in South America before coming to Full…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…ty Day (Bi Visibility Day) on Saturday, September 23, capping off Bisexual Awareness Week. Hanoi Pride’s week of events concluded on September 24. Catholic Church: Controversy over bridge-building book reflects larger struggle within hierarchy James Martin, a Jesuit priest whose book promoting bridge-building between the church and gay Catholics has exposed him to vehement criticism from anti-LGBT Catholics, described his experience at the hands o…

Pope Benedict’s 2006 Islamophobia Controversy Wasn’t an Isolated Incident — Islamophobia is an Integral Part of His Theological Legacy

By Wendy Mallette

…York Times goes as far as to claim that this lecture has been vastly mischaracterized; that it, in fact, made possible “deeper Catholic-Muslim dialogue.” But these apologetic reflections over a single lecture in Benedict’s 62-year career often miss the larger point. Going back decades before the fated 2006 lecture, Benedict’s fundamental convictions about faith and reason came to undergird his later views about Islam as irrational, uncivilized, a…

Forward Christian Europe!

By Ludger Viefhues-Bailey

…in fact, were a veritable 21st-century media strategy. In his manifesto, “A European Declaration of Independence,” he explains how he used Facebook to amass an email list of potentially favorable conservatives in Europe. To their addresses he disseminated the 1,500-page document, written in nearly perfect English under an Anglicized version of his name. He created a Twitter account and sent his only tweet 5 days before the assault to become visib…

New Book Stokes Fear of a Muslim Europe

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…nnot find a single modern-day Muslim leader worthy of praise, unless it be Aayan Hirsi Ali. The Somali-Dutch activist, of course, is no longer a Muslim, and that is what fills Caldwell with glee: “More than any other Westerner,” he crows, “Ayaan Hirsi Ali has made the case for the superiority of the Western conception of women’s rights over the Muslim one.” Sadly, this journalist-turned-polemicist is hailed by Faoud Ajami in the New York Times as…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…chedule interviews. I don’t know how not to do this. Yet here I was at the Ananda Ashram in rural India, expecting (and craving) swift condemnation by the monks and nuns at the sight of an iPhone. I was on a university-sponsored trip to the subcontinent with other journalists, all of us covering politics and religion. The reporting would come later, however. First came three days in an ashram, and I hoped for a 72-hour hiatus from the compulsion t…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…he better evening because of his way with a microphone and his remarkable capacity to modulate his voice (not to mention outing himself as LDS pastor and bishop). But it was Billy Graham’s endorsement, splashed into our faces via an expensive full-page Sunday New York Times ad, that triggered my flat-out recognition: the 94-year-old daddy of all televangelists is laying his bony patriarchal hands upon a fellow preacher who shares his hawk-like pro…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…r without the consent of the Indians. – Article XVI: 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie All across South Dakota meetings are being held this week and next on the various Lakota Indian reservations to try and raise enough money to make a bid on the purchase of lands in Paha Sapa, the Black Hills of South Dakota, considered sacred to the Lakota people. The site is called Oceti Sakowin, Pe’ Sla (The Heart of Everything) in the Lakota language and is cons…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…er own country, and has lent her considerable status to the grassroots India Against Corruption campaign as the movement evolves. What some are calling India’s Arab Spring has been more like a summer of discontent, complete with demonstrations and arrests, all in support of this epic fight against government corruption—what Anna Hazare, whose hunger strike made headlines, has named “India’s second freedom struggle.” I was glad to have the chance t…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…!,” between a blurry “photo” and a pull quote informing readers that the “FAA launches top secret investigation into incident.” To those who dismiss any sort of faith in angels, they belong to a category that also includes ghosts and UFO abductions, clairvoyance and Sasquatch. There are reasons for such dismissals, of course. Many pop cultural representations of angels borrow extensively from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at re…