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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

…He has also adopted the rhetoric of fascists in denouncing his political opponents as “vermin”[2] and immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country.”[3] At right-wing events and on the campaign trail, he rallies his followers with promises of revenge against elites who ruined their shared dreams of a second Trump term. “I am your warrior. I am your justice,” he thunders. “I am your retribution.”[4] He has vowed to “obliterate the deep state,”…

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First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

…Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where a young Belgian woman experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary more than 150 years ago. Behind the chapel and small gift shop, visitors can tramp through the snow to a grotto and Stations of the Cross, passing on their way the burial place of Adele Brise, the French-speaking Belgian immigrant who saw and spoke with the Virgin Mary in 1859. In the linoleum-floored crypt, flyers and pamphlets explain the his…

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Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

…ge and basically that we as young people (or unmarried people) needed to suppress our sexual thoughts until we were married. To dwell on a sexual thought in their teaching was sinful—it was lust. Masturbation was taught as sinful because even if it did not start with lustful thoughts it would lead to lustful thoughts or so they taught us. Also they taught us we were not allowed to enjoy the sexual pleasure of our body apart from our spouse in marr…

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Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

…ourland is finished, Mpofu, a tall woman with a regal bearing, stands and approaches me. “Sarah, you came,” she exclaims softly, almost in disbelief. She grasps me in a tight, protracted embrace, and tells me that during our telephone interview from Harare a few weeks earlier, she felt a “strong connection” with me. For Pentecostals who believe in signs, wonders, and miracles, no human encounter is devoid of a divine hand. As Bourland likes to say…

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RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

…ers who attend religious services once or twice a month, moving from 49% support for Kerry in 2004 to 60% support for Obama in 2008. More Americans think Obama is friendly to religion than McCain. 49% of Americans say Obama is friendly to religion, while 45% say McCain is friendly to religion. More than seven-in-ten (71%) say it is important for public officials to be comfortable talking about religious values. Young first-time voters are heavily…

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Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

…pe and history. And because it is the “City of three Faiths” it has many supporters and “fans” throughout the world. But fans of Jerusalem, unlike fans of Paris, Cairo, or New York, are a bitterly divided groups of fans, with fiercely contending understandings of the city’s history and landscape. For Jerusalem, though “united” by Israeli government fiat after the 1967 War, remains a deeply divided city. Its Jewish and Arab citizens live in a very…

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“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

The devastating 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan is an opportunity to see catastrophe theology in action. Rather than wait for Pat Robertson-style pronouncements that the earthquake is about evil, homosexuality, or Buddha, I went to Twitter and the internet to see what people are saying about God and the earthquake. The bulk of the tweets are about God helping the Japanese, and prayer for the Japanese, but a number of the tweets are weighing in abou…

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Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

…ws their ability to have complete editorial control. America magazine is supported by the Jesuits, and its former editor, Thomas Reese, SJ, was pressured into resigning due to objections to magazine content from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at the time headed by the same Cardinal Ratzinger. As a news outlet supported by a religious society, the magazine tends to strive for a neutral point of view. Matt Malone, SJ, its current ed…

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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

Buyer’s Remorse or Getting What they Expected? Are evangelicals who supported Obama or have agreed to work with his administration experiencing what religion writer David Gibson has termed “buyer’s remorse,” or are they getting what they expected out of Team Obama? Recently, some Christian evangelicals have expressed their disappointment in Obama’s approach to the issue of abortion. In a USA Today column dated March 16 and titled “Mr. President,…

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Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

…e understood that even if they were religious themselves, they needed to “appreciate the diversity” of Oakland, which is ethnic and cultural, but religious as well, including a large percentage of nonreligious young adults. Only 31% of adults in California attend some form of weekly religious worship, and most of the victims of the Ghost Ship fire were in their 20s and 30s, making them statistically more likely to be agnostic, atheist, or another…

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