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“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…ion of the Church,” whose first major success was the installation of John XXIII as pope. “They wanted to get their man on the throne. They started infiltrating seminaries, they got enough people as bishops and then finally they went for the whole thing.” Father Short held no hopes of being reconciled with the Church as it stood, but was more optimistic about uniting the various streams of Latin Mass Catholics. “Realistically they’re not going to…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…ant area of research for the sociology of religion as well as the study of new religious movements. What’s your next book? I want to continue to challenge the relationship between “mainstream” religions and forms of religiosity that have been marginalized or portrayed as “other.” I tentatively plan to explore how Catholic practices such as devotion to saints, rosaries, and labyrinths have been appropriated by pagans and eclectic religious seekers….

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…enting, encouraged easy divorce and births outside of marriage, confused sexual identities, promoted promiscuity, created conditions that increased child abuse, isolated the elderly, and fostered depopulation,” and figuring out how to best manipulate those same systems into defending their particular religious values. One concern undergirding the varied topics covered by the speakers was that the protection of individual rights (youth rights, gay…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…the rest of the data isn’t particularly encouraging, but there are a few exceptions. For example, only 34% of Americans believe that it is never appropriate to teach in public schools that some Americans are transgender. This and similar figures regarding feelings about same-sex relationships—for which there is very little difference between those who are parents and those who aren’t—could be useful for fighting against the well-organized efforts…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…t he would enhance and expand President Bush’s faith-based initiative. The New York Times reported that “Between now and November, the Obama forces are planning as many as 1,000 house parties and dozens of Christian rock concerts, gatherings of religious leaders, campus visits and telephone conference calls to bring together voters of all ages motivated by their faith to engage in politics.” McCain, on the other hand, has had a rocky relationship…

The Conservative Bible Project: Looking for Conservative Diamonds in a Liberal Dung-Hill

By Thomas Fabisiak

…f John 1:18, the “bloody sweat” of Luke 22:43-44, the number six hundred sixty-six in Revelation 13, and 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (which enjoins women to be silent in church). One of the main reasons for differences between newer translations of the Bible and the KJV is that the latter does not consistently reflect what scholars now believe to be the earliest and best ancient manuscripts. Conservative Christian groups usually oppose text-critical an…

What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?

By Bruce David Forbes

…s with them, unhindered: Germans, Scandinavians, and the Dutch who founded New Amsterdam (later New York). So Lutherans, Catholics, and the Dutch Reformed celebrated Christmas, along with the Church of England that continued restrained Christmas observances. As a result of this mixture, in the American colonies and then in the new nation, there was no national consensus supporting Christmas, and the disagreement was between Christians. American Ch…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…white evangelical environments can tell you, evangelicals—in addition to explicit white supremacists and other right-wing authoritarians—exhibit an unhealthy obsession with targeting youth for indoctrination. As a case in point, Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller made headlines for saying the quiet part out loud at yesterday’s pro-Trump rally in Washington when she stated, “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the fu…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…fline presence. There is no question that the HPA would not and could not exist without the existence of the internet and, more specifically, social networking and new media technology. The sheer number of channels through which HPA staff and volunteers reach out to potential members is staggering. They include old-fashioned email lists, the HPA website, the HPA blog, the HPA Ning social network, meetup.com, myspace, Livestream, YouTube, Facebook,…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…g policies. Meanwhile, many of the same institutions have filed for Title IX exemptions, which would permit them to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and still receive federal funds, a move that has prompted a public backlash from some evangelicals. We saw a similar clash in 2014, when the Christian charity World Vision announced it would employ people in same-sex marriages. Though some prominent evangelical leader…