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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…political unification of Europe 5. Failure of peace attempts in the Middle East 6. The worldwide threat of nuclear weapons. To some, these signs may prove alarming. But as Dr. Hindson noted in the conference, “Biblical prophecy is not designed to scare us, but to prepare us.” The rapture of the saints at the return of Christ is a message of comfort. As Titus 2:13 tells us, we must be “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our grea…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…en it comes to the difficulty of achieving a two-state solution and Middle East peace, even if many partisans on both sides are hardly pious. But what about Christians? This is where it was most troubling to see religion not addressed in the debate. So, via an admittedly unscientific poll, I asked Twitter whether the Democratic candidates should have brought up the connection between evangelicals and Israel last night, and received a variety of an…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…not out of respect for our state’s political history of welcome, then at least with reverence to the many faith traditions in Texas that offer friendship and hospitality to the stranger. As with many of you, I am sure, faith was a central piece of my upbringing. In Longview, I learned the value of welcome when the Baptist church down the road from my house had a bus ministry that picked me up every week for Sunday School and worship service. In S…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…adheads were anathema to my chosen subculture of socially conscious punks. East Bay punks were aggro and in your face about social justice, feminism, human rights; Deadheads, in our eyes, were too stoned and obsessed with their god Jerry to care. Sometimes, I’d be out in Berkeley at night, coming out of a punk show in some basement or garage, and I’d hear the tail end of a Dead set drifting down from the Greek, always, always, always with the same…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…t home amidst the Israeli warplanes, soldiers, and evocations of nationalism and military might that unfortunately characterize the ceremony today. Many right-wing Israeli outlets celebrated the false news that Evans would lead the march, reinforcing the close relationship between Christian Zionist leaders and the Israeli Right in the post-Trump era. As Yom HaShoah moves us to recommit to the fight against antisemitism, we must recommit to oppose…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…ine, whose quote appears in the film, argued in “An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry” that Christianity and Masonry both “derived from the worship of the sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the sun.” Paine also argued that churches were mea…

Youth Violence Among American Muslims: A Perspective

By Muneer Fareed

…nown to have slipped out of the country to engage in acts of piracy on the east coast of Africa, or to help al-Shabab, a paramilitary youth group, topple Somalia’s transitional government.) Then there are the recent arrests in Sydney, Australia of Somali youth conspiring to storm an army base and kill soldiers indiscriminately. And this is not just about recent immigrants from third world countries. Reza Taheri-azar, a philosophy and psychology ma…

Dumbest Interview About Islam of All Time

By Sarah Posner

…nd there is a very big group of people who really understand the Koran far better than I do. I’m certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. But there’s something there that teaches some very negative vibe. I mean things are happening, when you look at people blowing up all over the streets that are in some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super ma…

What Does the Muslim World Really Want?

By Becky Garrison

…ame question. Critique of the West What Muslims around the world say they least admire about the West is its perceived moral decay and breakdown of traditional values—the same responses given by Americans when posed the same question. Gender justice Muslim women want equal rights and religion in their societies. Respect Muslims around the world say that the one thing the West can do to improve relations with their societies is to moderate their vi…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…hting racism is reminiscent of a barefoot Gandhi taking up residence in an East Bengali village after fighting between Hindus and Muslims threatened to destroy the region. Of the many new religious movements of the 1960s and ’70s, Peoples Temple is probably the only one that can boast an agenda that remains enormously relevant to us today. That its genesis was admirable makes the implosion of the dream that much more tragic. Following Fondakowski,…