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Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…te in 1950. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Graham met in Montreux, Switzerland, with Norman Vincent Peale and other Protestant leaders to devise a way to derail the campaign of John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, thereby assisting Nixon’s electoral chances; eight days earlier, Graham had sent a letter to Kennedy promising not to raise the “religious issue” in the fall campaign. Although Graham later mended relations with Kennedy, Nixo…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…probably more Christians in a neighborhood of Lagos or Nairobi than all of Switzerland. It is in this context that the attention of the Anglican Communion has again turned to Canterbury. The bishop’s chair there will soon be vacant, even as Rowan Williams takes full advantage of the months preceding his December retirement. And while speculation as to his successor runs hot, most observers place their bets on current occupants of English sees. Tha…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…en on TV” was honored with a reading at the Rose D’Or Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was invited on the two-week Jewish Federation’s Master class in Tel Aviv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena rec…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…be stunned before slaughter, following in the footsteps of New Zealand and Switzerland, effectively eliminating the procedures that make meat kosher for Jews or halal for Muslims. As for the sacrificial taking of human life, every Sunday, millions of mainstream Americans partake in a symbolic ingestion of blood and body that is so common in the Christian world that one forgets to use the word “cannibalism.” For the Catholics if not the Protestants…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…the indefatigable hostess of Schaeffer’s American expatriate community in Switzerland, L’Abri (meaning “Shelter”), a training ground and experiment in radical Christian living. She is also an author whose most durable contribution to the culture wars are two of her seemingly most apolitical books: L’Abri, a memoir of her role in her husband’s ministry, and a book that became, perhaps unintentionally, a landmark text for proponents of “biblical wo…

Trump Gives Davos Press Credentials to Racist Conspiracy Outlet. Again.

By Gordon Haber

…House still let TruNews “cover” this week’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. TruNews’s “reporting” from Davos won’t disappoint its critics: hard-hitting segments include, among other things, the details of an overheard conversation between a Saudi official and a political consultant whose breathless non-scoop is that the president doesn’t care much about the peace process (along with speculation that Trump’s assistance to Netanyahu befo…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Turns out, every case of self-reported religious affiliation is trending downward: 40% self-identify as religiously non-affiliated in the Netherlands, as do 60% in the Czech Republic. The mathematicians seem far more surprised by these numbers than most religionists would be. The first and most obvious reason involves an important distinction that when you shif…

The Week in Religion: Haggard Would Identify
as Bisexual, Trademarking
the Virgin, Woman Kills
‘Devil Dog’

By Michael J. Altman

…reform law, the U.S. Catholic bishops will not join in the repeal effort. Switzerland’s highest court refused to add “Madonna” to its trademark registry because, it argued, commercial use of the reference to the Virgin Mary would be immoral. An elderly couple with a faulty GPS ended up driving through the wall of a 19th century German church. “The old man was more confused than the woman. He kept saying, It’s the machine – it told me to turn this…

Let There Be Light: Handwritten Draft of King James Bible Reveals Secrets of Its Creation

By Ed Simon

…an episcopal perspective and the later (completed by Protestant exiles in Switzerland escaping the persecutions of the Catholic Queen Mary) was explicitly Calvinist. The King James companies worked at integrating the orientations of these two editions, but they also had the profound literary example of William Tyndale, who finished the first complete English translation of the New Testament (an accomplishment which led to his execution in 1536)….

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…esident Joe Biden addressed a group of business leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum and urged them to do more to advance LGBT equality, saying there is never a cultural justification for human rights violations: “LGBT people face violence, harassment, unequal treatment, mistreatment by cops, denial of health care, isolation — always in the name of culture,” said Biden as the Huffington Post reported. “I’ve had it up…