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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…olic age, including healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues. One of the tricks in reporting this is that people may mean different things by the terms apostle and apostolic. The Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination, for example, issued a report in 2001 which states that most Christian denominations “think of themselves, in one sense or another, as apostolic.” But only the NAR/five-fold ministry churches “claim God has raised…

The Ultimate Dirty Politics or Bipartisan Opposition to the Tea Party?

By Julie Ingersoll

…cy Polling (described as a Democratically-oriented polling firm) tests the numbers in a two-way race with Rubio facing either Crist or Meek. Rubio still beats Meek, but a hypothetical contest between Crist and Rubio is a dead heat. The Crist campaign denies having any part in trying to coax Meeks to withdraw. But yesterday Crist added to the list of Democrats who have defected from supporting Meek when he secured support from the Palm Beach Democr…

‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Ep 2 Recap: A Family Man With a Wild Side

By Benjamin E. Park

…me, and power. He spent more than he brought in, accumulated an increasing number of toys, and made frequent trips to the East Coast to both initiate more sales as well as party hard while away from his traditional home life. Some of the documentary’s tricks to capture this escalation and duplicity work well, like the home-footage of a smiling, and obviously proud, Hofmann watching news footage of himself. Others come up short, like the comedic re…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…cs of the transition process to Trump’s continued reliance on the dramatic tricks of the genre—and even pieces collecting reactions from veterans of the reality television industry. But if we look at “reality television” in the context of its roots in documentary film—and as a moment in the viewing public’s education in reading and relating to unscripted footage—then we can analyze Trump’s live-action moments in the international spotlight not mer…

Welcome to the “Spin-od”: Conservatives Look to Halt Reforms on Divorce and Other “Family Matters”

By Patricia Miller

…wo-week meeting was marred by allegations of manipulation, lies, and dirty tricks. Pentin’s book is long on accusations and short on findings that any actual manipulation took place outside of the expected machinations of Vatican politics, which were unusually public due to a hotbed of a media environment. There was a contentious relationship between synod officials and some of the conservative bishops over the administration of the synod, which d…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…t for a philosophy and theology conference hosted by Peter Rollins called “Tricks of the Light.” It’s based around a concept that Pete calls “Pyrotheology.” We need burn our constructs of God to the ground continuously so that we don’t end up worshipping the models we’ve made, or the idolatry of God rather than God itself. It takes humility to admit that we don’t have the answers, that our models aren’t truth itself and that the palaces we build t…

Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others

By Mary E. Hunt

…news cycle, of dueling factions among the bishops, close votes, and dirty tricks. Hey, how about that change in the English, but not the official Italian, version of the first report that toughened up the language on LGBTIQ people before anyone thought they should be welcome? It was as if gay gremlins in the Vatican had inserted it in the first place. It was just like the old days before Google Translate, except now more people can see the shenan…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…that it just seems perverse to want to learn the survival strategies and “tricks” of a notorious killer, the cancer cell as icon of biological immortality already has a dark history of its own. The first line of immortal cells used in medical research came from the body of Henrietta Lacks—a poor African-American woman in Baltimore, who never gave researchers permission to use her cells in research. Her children lived without health insurance whil…

Why It’s Okay to Criticize Fundamentalist Evangelicals

By Tom Eggebeen

…ught my attention. Calvin labels their claims to be Scripture-abiding, as “tricks” and “equivocation” (Institutes, 1541 edition, trans. Elsie Anne McKee). The Anabaptists, with their “believers’ baptism,” have a diminished view of God, a view of grace compromised by “holiness” convictions, an overbearing focus on the believer’s need to “come to faith.” Faith is then “proved” with dramatic conversion stories, allowing little room for failure. Today…

Is the Internet the End of Religion?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ions reproduce through chanting and song. What are some other evolutionary tricks, Dawkins asks? Promises of an afterlife! Dennett also maintains that religions are “designed by natural selection in such a way as to presuppose the relative ignorance of the parts that make it up.” Since more knowledge and reason inevitably equals less faith (something I’ve argued against before), the Internet will bring the end of religion. Finally, in my favor…