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Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…ancis effect” from the pope’s first year. According to Daniel Burke at CNN.com in a lengthy, mostly anecdotal piece, “there’s more way than one to measure the pontiff’s influence” than, say, actual metrics like the number of people going to mass or returning to the church. According to Burke, you just have to “ask around” Boston to find folks who know someone who’s thinking about returning to the church or who feels less horrible about the church…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…le; anyone familiar with the history of monotheism knows that consensus around a shared understanding of God is a pipe dream. In principle, the three Abrahamic traditions pray to the same God. In reality, the differences within each tradition, let alone among the three, are vast, confounding, and indeed incommensurable. Reform Jews have more liberal views of God than Orthodox; Protestants and Catholics disagree about how to factor Jesus Christ int…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…performance on the field and fill the stands. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is trying to keep churches empty, however, through their Chicago bus advertisements encouraging the Windy City’s faithful to sleep in on Sunday mornings. She wasn’t driving a bus, but a dispute over a traffic ticket involving a veiled woman in France has intensified controversy over French anti-veil legislation. Regardless of whether or not you get the religion of…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…term “Christian militia.” This suggests to me that a tectonic shift may be underway in our underlying culture and politics as we continue to struggle with how to acknowledge the realities of actual and threatened religiously-motivated violence in the United States. Until now, of course, the elephant in the room has been our double standard, at least since 9/11. We’ve had little difficulty acknowledging religious motivations when Muslims are involv…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…e Earth is vile, human beings are worse still, and Eywa is nowhere to be found. Suddenly, the heart-wrenching words of Jake, Avatar’s narrator and male lead, echo in your ears: “Look at the world we come from. There is no green there. They killed their Mother, and they’re going to do the same thing here.” In that instant, you realize that something is horribly wrong with everything. Epiphany and counter-epiphany collide in your mind: the film has…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…that your Aunt Mary who reads Left Behind novels will move to survivalist compounds and begin paramilitary training to battle the UN than that your cousin Mary who likes Avatar will give up her iPod and clothes and move to a rainforest. Still, even if we wonder if Robertson’s scenarios of mutiny are mainly fantasies he won’t enact, and even if we discount his extreme expressions of disloyalty (imagining the president as Satan, praying for the dea…

Sarah Palin: Bus Tour of Destruction

By Anthea Butler

…a gulf stream jet just like Creflo Dollar and other word of faith folks. Being welcomed with signs greeting her as “Queen Esther” I imagine is pretty exhilarating. Palin’s audience and a meal with Billy Graham while on tour confers top notch spiritual affirmation and legitimacy to the “Queen Esther” moniker. I happen to know that recently Graham’s people kept a well-respected scholar of American Religion waiting in Montreat, citing Graham’s poor…

Mennonite in a Midlife Crisis (of Faith)

By Brittany Shoot

…anding from believers and atheists alike to know that my way isn’t better than anyone else’s. Simply put, blessing is better than impressing. Janzen’s memoir serves as a reminder that we all share common ground. That our respective childhoods share hilarious similarities is just icing on the cake—or rather, Schmauntfatt cream gravy on the Kielke homemade noodles….

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…n my conversations with Israel’s next Prime Minister, I believe Netanyahu fundamentally understands the apocalyptic, genocidal Islamic eschatology driving Iran’s current leaders. By contrast, I am convinced that President Obama or Secretary of State Clinton do not understand at all the End Times beliefs of the current leaders of Iran, and are thus making wrong policy choices based on their lack of understanding. Let us pray, therefore, that as Mr….

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t for gays and lesbians. The reality in Uganda is that the gay and lesbian community is under constant threat of violence or death, and religious leaders in the United States like Lou Engle and others have a direct responsibility in fueling the flames of hatred in that country. Colin Coward, at the Changing Attitude blog, calls on the Anglican Communion to put aside its own bickering about homosexuality, and make it clear that such violence agains…