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Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the Evangelical Vote

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…ements, a hidden “plan of the ages” emerges. According to their decryptions, a number of events will transpire just before the apocalypse. These include a return of the Jews to Palestine, a decline in morals, religious apostasy, and the consolidation of independent nations into one super-state led by a seemingly benevolent leader who is actually the Antichrist. During the last 100 years, evangelicals have witnessed more and more evidence of these…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

…om themselves: down from 65% of Americans surveyed to 61%. Some measurable gains have been made among mainline Protestants: 28% surveyed in 2011 said they have “a lot in common” with Mormons; now, that proportion is 42%. And when asked to give a one asked to give a one-word descriptor of Mormonism, the number of respondents offering a positive word like “good,” or “honest,” increased from 18% in 2011 to 24% in 2012. All of these gains were conce…

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim… and Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, made a trek to the Washington, D.C., offices of the Human Rights Campaign to hold a press conference denouncing homosexuality as “a destructive sin [and] something to be ashamed of. Out-and-proud homosexualism – far from being a human right – is actually a human wrong.” Others, like David Lane who, writes for World Net Daily and is funded by the certified hate group the American Family Association, are…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ude their counterparts in other religious traditions.) The first subsection, 107(1), allows a minister to exclude from taxable income the value of a living space that’s considered “part of his compensation,” while the second, 107(2), permits the exclusion of “the rental allowance paid to him” for a living space. This second subsection, wherein the employer provides the money rather than the space itself, is the one that Crabb found unconstitutiona…

Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

By Sarah Posner

…$100,000 a year. Its PAC raised less than $6,000 in the last election cycle, $5,000 of that coming from the advocacy arm’s board president, Janet Robert. Earlier this year, DFLA removed Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) from its board over his co-sponsorship of a bill to reduce the number of abortions that included provisions for contraception. Ryan called the group “fringe” for its opposition to contraception; Day maintained that DFLA does not oppose contrace…

By The Numbers: Jeb Opposes Francis on Climate Change at His Peril

By Daniel Schultz

…ers attributing warming to human activity rise among moderates and liberals, of course, but they’re not going to vote for Jeb anyway. There is one number Bush might want to worry about, though: 85. That’s the percent of Hispanic Catholics who think climate change is a real problem: For a guy who’s been touting his potential to draw Spanish-speaking voters into the Republican fold, this is a sticky situation. Hispanic Catholics, as it turns out, ac…

How to Make Nones and Lose Money: Study Shows Cost of Catholic Sex Abuse Scandals

By Kaya Oakes

…ending church, the social pressure to be charitable declines. Interestingly, however, these same individuals mirror the statistical notion that even though an increasing number of Americans consider themselves religiously unaffiliated, that doesn’t necessarily mean they do not believe in God. Botton and Perez-Trugila indicate that sex abuse scandals cost the church money and participation, but not necessarily faith. For many Millennials and member…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nd free enquiry, these same Popes have elected to stand emphatically on the side of the moderns. This volume offers an extraordinary glimpse back on a time when it was not yet so. But it is so, now, in the Vatican Library and in the Museums, which can make them both seem very far away from a Church that is, in reality, still adjacent to them both….

The Black Church: Institution or Abstraction?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…Nor, have I given any space to the African-based traditions such as Voodoo, Ifa, and Santería–to name only a few–that claim the attention and adherence of many African Americans. And what about the three million African Americans who have embraced Sunni Islam? Do you get my point? Much of this nuance, these differences, are lost in sound bites and news reports. Trinity Church, once lead by Rev. Wright, is simply one example: one particular black…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…med Eve. When Clonaid refused to offer any evidence of their accomplishment, however, the claim was dismissed as a hoax. The media grew hostile toward Raelianism and Clonaid and in 2003 sealed documents suggested that Clonaid existed in name only and had no actual assets. 2003 was also the year that Rael became interested in female circumcision while on a speaking tour in Western Africa. (Raelians have been making missionary trips to Africa since…