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Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…983 sermon that roused the Baptist Pillar’s ire provides an interesting comparison between spoken words that were indisputably Graham’s, published words that were basically Graham’s, and words that appear in Where I Am. The published title of the sermon was, “There Is a Real Hell.” Thanks to Liberty University’s archives, anyone can watch Graham preach this sermon to a large crowd in Sacramento, California. In it, Graham described hell as an “unpo…

All Ducked Up: Reality TV, Not So Real

By Sarah Posner

…s mainstream Christians. After the new season of Duck Dynasty premiered in August to a record 11.8 million viewers, an A&E executive told Entertainment Weekly, “Thanks to its authentic and engaging characters Duck Dynasty has become more than just a reality show, it is a cultural phenomenon.” Well, engaging, yes (to its massive audience, at least), but authentic, no. And why? Because A&E erased what is “authentic” about the Robertsons. As a Washin…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…n SF during the summer of ’68, when chaos was simmering, and in Chicago in August of ’68 when chaos erupted. I did the dope and lived the life. The sixties, as they did so many of my generation, made me. But what I have since read in academic discourse is never the reality I experienced. That came through instead in the literature of the times, and the underground comix, and the music. At Harvard, I was introduced to the Puritans by Alan Heimert,…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…of The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, due out in August and available for preorder now.) There is a direct line from Santorum’s fallacious history to his bigotry against Native Americans, and it’s all related to the same justifications that led to Jan. 6. So far, CNN, I’ve only focused on one of your commentator’s claims. There are others. When your employee talked about our founding documents embodying “Mosaic law” and t…

Why Mike Lindell and the Majority of White Evangelicals Can’t Give Up On ‘The Big Lie’

By Mark Leuchter

…nds behind Trump’s loss and even that Trump somehow would be reinstated by August (despite the legal impossibility of this happening). Lindell has persistently claimed that he has indisputable evidence of coordinated malfeasance. But in his many appearances and statements, he has never actually provided it. Instead, his guest spots have typically amounted to rants and assertions disconnected from facts, which have led some hosts to cut him off mid…

Akin Revival

By Sarah Posner

…t that the American Family Association, which also bankrolled Rick Perry’s August 2011 prayer rally, paid for this event: Speakers at the St. Louis event — including Texas Gov. Rick Perry — introduced political candidates and encouraged evangelical “awakening” and political action, but they did not endorse or focus on Akin or other candidates by name. Much of the program offered practical advice: how pastors can sometimes endorse candidates from t…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…gods.” And, in County Donegal, Ireland, Father Padraig O’Baoill warned his parishioners against “endangering” their souls by practicing yoga, which he suggested is “unsavoury.” 9. Awake Awakens Moviegoers to Yogananda’s Vision Awake, a documentary about the life of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of the famous Autobiography of a Yogi, was released in October 2014. The film tells the important story of how Indian-born Yogananda travelled in 1920 to t…

Presbyterians Again “Spahr” over Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…real faith issue for me,” she said. “I think I would be in jeopardy if I didn’t do it.” Spahr will go on trial sometime in August or September….

As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward

By Lauren Barbato

…mate. Only then did the bishops amp up their campaign against Ferraro. In August 1984, the bishops’ conference, then led by Bishop James Malone of Ohio, released a statement aimed at Ferraro and other public dissenters, including Mario Cuomo, though they didn’t refer to any politicians by name. The bishops claimed they needed to correct what they saw as an impossible, fallible stance, that “this implied dichotomy—between personal morality and pub…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

Writing in the National Catholic Reporter in early August, Nicholas Cafardi made the provocative assertion that between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the president is the more pro-life candidate. A significant part of the Duquesne law professor’s argument is that Obama favors “support for vulnerable pregnant women and alternatives to abortion [which] will make abortions much less likely, since most abortions are economic.” A few weeks later, just…