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Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…t he was leading us to the Promised Land. The above is an excerpt from the book Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World by Michael Baigent. The above excerpt is a digitally scanned reproduction of text from print. Although this excerpt has been proofread, occasional errors may appear due to the scanning process. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy. Copyright © 2009 Michael Baigent, author of Rac…

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

…ree mysterious deaths, including their former spouses,are available at any number of major news sources across the country. But few of these outlets have been able to offer much insight into a document released last week, a numbered list that Chad sent to Lori in January 2019 entitled, “Seven missions to accomplish together,” which reveals how their beliefs relate to this larger movement. The list as it appears in the document is as follows: Trans…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…when unencumbered with the need to define, defend, and divide. Armstrong’s book is timely; however, any book on the subject of reining in haughty theological assertions is always timely. It is true that she has been selective with her historical survey, giving most of her attention to the Christian tradition, but the point of the book is not to give an exhaustive portrait of monotheistic theologies. Rather, the point is to remind the reader that r…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…ud before the guilty were strangled to death with bare Jewish hands. A new book chronicles one such group, Nakam (Hebrew for vengeance), made up of the Nokmim (The Avengers), who had grander aspirations: to kill six million Germans. Israeli scholar Dina Porat’s Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full Scale Revenge meticulously tracks this briefly held mission in the anguished months immediately after the war. The book centers on Israeli poe…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ry, another German study—this time by a Lutheran theologian—wrote a little book with an odd title. The translation renders Friedrich Christian Lesser’s book as Insecto-theology: Or A Demonstration Of The Being And Perfections Of God, From A Consideration Of The Structure And Economy Of Insects. Insecto-theology. What word and imagination. The book sits as a note in the annals of natural theology, and revels for hundreds of pages in the intricacies…

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

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…spoke through a donkey,” (referring to the story of Balaam in the biblical book of Numbers.) “He’s speaking through Doug Mastriano right now.” Also, PBS station WHYY’s investigation, published on September 1st, revealed that Mastriano’s campaign manager, Vishal Jetnarayan, “describes himself, and is described by others, as a prophet. He says he speaks with God directly and gives advice on how others can do so.” The knowledge and vocabulary These t…

Talking Religion at 30,000 Feet

By Michael J. Altman

…ourist in seat 17B what I really think? I recently happened up on a little book that answered that question for me. In his new history of the origins of the field, Religion Enters the Academy (a little three-chapter book perfect for plane rides), James Turner narrates the rise of comparative religion in America from the late eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. In Turner’s story, the earliest scholars of world religions did not actuall…

Evangelical Author on Why Christian Conservatives Supported Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…g evangelical cultures. You touch on race at several points throughout the book, usually as part of a list of Trump sins that white evangelicals were willing to look past. But white evangelicals are a white constituency by definition, and Trump ran a campaign based largely on racial demagoguery. Are white evangelicals more supportive of Trump’s racism than they’re willing to admit? Well I can’t say that they are supportive of his racism, but they…

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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

By Benjamin E. Park

…oil—compared Trump to “Captain Moroni,” a prominent military figure in the Book of Mormon, he was merely placing a Mormon spin on an evangelical trope: the strong man willing and anxious to do battle. The kind of warrior who never concedes defeat, no matter the electoral results. A central tenet throughout the book is Romney “reckoning” with his own complicity with these developments. It is important to note, however, just which aspects he regrets…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…e. Haber, who also writes criticism and journalism, is the co-founder of e-book publisher Dutch Kills Press, which published Uggs for Gaza in March. RD spoke with him to learn more about the questions of ethnicity posed by the collection and what it means to be Jewish in America today. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. This collection, in many ways, is about the American male Jewish experience. Is it essentially a mem…