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Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s about the more narrow scope of active Facebook affiliations, despite the number of “friends” a person’s profile page might boast. With regard to churches, Beck reads the data as suggesting that Facebook and other social media are replacing what he believes is the “main draw of the traditional church: social connection and affiliation.” It’s an engaging argument. Beck is certainly right that church is no longer a central gathering place for the m…

Hulu’s ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’ Shows That We Can No Longer Ignore Connections Between Religion and Drugs

By Hollis Phelps

…od’s universal love for the first time in their entire life.” The clinic’s website claims that after a number of therapeutic sessions “you are likely to experience a state of deep meditation and a feeling of unconditional love.” Skeptics may, of course, balk at the equation of a clinical, drug-induced experience with an experience that borders on the mystical, but such claims aren’t out of the ordinary. William James, author of The Varieties of Re…

A Palin Pastor Primer

By Esther Kaplan

…listening tour of Kalnins’ taped sermons before they were removed from his website and posted a useful roundup. Highlights include: On John Kerry, in 2004: “I’m not going to tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I’m sorry.” On Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina: “I hate criticism towards the President, because it’s like criticisms towards the pastor — it’s almost like, it’s not going to…

Robertson’s Organizations Persist in Calls for Probe of Congressional Muslim Staffers

By Sarah Posner

…re run under the auspices of the House Chaplain. (See the House Chaplain’s website for evidence of the prayer meetings being open to the public, like other religious meetings held under the Chaplain’s auspices.) What’s more, neither Fox nor ALCJ have produced evidence any of these individuals were invited by the CMSA; as Khan noted, the prayer meetings are open to the public. Yet Sekulow went on, “Why we’re calling for an investigation — who was…

Your Pseudoscience Beach Read: Creationist Infighting Edition

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…to a video-game supply store. They’re hoping to use the outpost and their website as a way to raise the money to build an actual, larger, admission-charging “museum.” Well, good luck with that. Even the brand-name Creation Museum, run by Ken Ham and his Answers in Genesis organization, has had trouble fundraising for its next project, the Ark Encounter. The folks in Idaho might have better luck pursuing a smaller-scale strategy. There are in fact…

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

…o be replaced by a new “National Day of Reason.” According to its official website, a National Day of Reason would, of course, “celebrate reason,” but it would also “raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship.” We should definitely have a National Day of Reason (Vision gets a whole week! Reason at least deserves a day), but the AHA’s call to counter a day…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…port and love for Isaac continues, I’ve found myself returning to the CHMF website—a quieter image of our little congregation in all its complexity—where you’ll find Isaac preaching about fire and tears and blue birds, about life as “a fleeting education in how to love.” A wonderfully boring home page will welcome you there, and, among other things, you’ll find an archive of sermons over the years from the dozens of people who have participated in…

Op-Ed: McCain’s VP, Sarah Palin, and ‘Feminists for Life’

By Ruth Rosen

…ns, Feminists for Life is not really about choice. You can see this on its website, where the slogan “refuse to choose” appears frequently. Nor does the organization challenge the real difficulties working mothers face. Instead, it cleverly appropriates the words “feminist” and “choice” to convince young women that abortion is always an unacceptable choice. Part of the problem is that Foster either does not know her history or purposefully distort…

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

By Gordon Haber

…llies are racist conspiracy theorists. TruNews, a paranoid Christian-right website run by pastor, “citizen reporter,” and former salesman Rick Wiles, never seems to have trouble getting White House credentials, or the president’s ear, despite Wiles’s solid record of antisemitism, racism, and homophobia. According to Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla: This is the same Wiles who, last November, dedicated an entire program to declaring that the effort…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…high school graduation. I also co-founded Homeschoolers Anonymous, a viral website and social media platform that publishes the stories of other homeschool alumni. In evangelical homeschooling, Baucham is both famous and notorious. In fact, Baucham began his career as a public speaker and conservative firebrand in the evangelical homeschooling world. There, Baucham is well-known as a social and political extremist, for which evangelical homeschool…