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Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…was red to honor their shed blood, and churches were commonly built on the site of their executions. Indeed, until well into the 20th century of Roman Catholic Christianity it had been required that a consecrated altar must contain relics of a martyr. A Christian martyr is a disciple and imitator of Christ who holds fast to the reasoned confession of faith and to a kind of life motivated by it, and ends up giving the witness (the meaning of the Gr…

Religious Groups Call On Justice Department to Protect Muslims

By Sarah Posner

In the wake of the arson at a planned Tennesse mosque site and the planned Quran burning at a Florida church on September 11, a coalition religious groups will meet this afternoon with Attorney General Eric Holder, as part of an effort to urge the Obama administration to do more to protect the religious freedom and safety of Muslims in the United States. In a meeting with Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez on August 30, the Bap…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…ity and for the presence of gays in the US military. The church operates a number of Web sites, including www.godhatesfags.com, on which it disseminates its rabidly anti-homosexual views. The church has gained notoriety for staging protests at the funerals of US soldiers in order to draw attention to its message. Albert Snyder’s son, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, was a US Marine who was killed on March 3, 2006 during active service in Iraq. His b…

Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…churning religious melee can’t end well. Beck has just started another Web site “The Blaze,” where you can get news that Beck says “will pursue truth.” Beck would probably just accuse me of being a communist, but about what he is selling on Fox and at “The Blaze,” Vladimir Lenin is thought to have said it best: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Let’s hope that Beck’s lies about history, theology, and America won’t be told enough to beco…

Focus on the Family Goes to Bat for Bullies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ucation analyst for Focus on the Family, said on the recently launched Web site TrueTolerance.org. Cushman appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night on CNN, and tried to put a pretty face on their efforts, saying: “We absolutely think every child should be protected from bullying.” She went on to try to explain, and this is where I began to wonder if conservative Christians ever really listen to themselves when they speak—because she hit the…

Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk

By Stephen V. Anderson

…recent blog post by Chuck Norris on the American Family Association’s Web site summarizes what many evangelical commentators think about the president’s recent foray into all that is Park51. “Obama is not just rebooting America’s image in the Muslim world. He’s deepening and expanding Islamic belief, practice, culture around the world, like a Muslim missionary.” I think not… but if true… it might be exactly what the Creator ordered (cf. The Late,…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…e been on a cross-country journey for the past several weeks, in which I visited with the Westboro Baptist Church clan in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Ted Haggard’s comeback church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In addition, I’ve talked to many many people along the way about their faith and religion. Most recently, I drove to Slab City, which is a forsaken piece of land out in the Colorado Desert near California’s Mexican border. People here say…

End of the World: An Update

By Lauri Lebo

…that Christ will return May 21, 2011. The sign doesn’t say it, but the web site that it refers to let’s us know that Oct. 21, 2011 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” At the end of the article, there is what may be the saddest quote I have ever read in a news story: Exley has bittersweet feelings about Camping’s prediction. “There are things I felt I always wanted to do—get married, have a kid, travel more,” s…

Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…he digital call-and-response of tweeted and retweeted updates from Chilean officials, onsite reporters, and friends and family members of the miners; along with prayers and encouragements from the millions watching the rescue. In addition, hundreds of Facebook groups sprung up as global digital sanctuaries for prayer and celebration throughout the day. The relics the miners brought up with them (sealed in “Fénix 2,” the high-tech sarcophagus in wh…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…Packer’s talk, the Salt Lake Tribune ran the following headline on its Web site: “Apostle: Same-sex attraction can change.” It’s bad enough when Church members are boxed into a corner and obligated by their faith to deny their own sense of reality, but in an age when communication is nearly instantaneous (and when the Church is still struggling with the fallout from its support of Prop. 8 in California), headlines like these threaten to undermine…