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Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

…ries: How is it that thousands of people are drawn to abusive leaders? Are numbers a sign of God’s blessing or merely an effect of good branding? Are successful churches merely sites of savvy capitalist exploitation? The show addresses this anxiety by drawing a distinction between character and charisma. Driscoll, Cosper tells us, was spiritually immature, yet possessed of intoxicating charm. Driscoll’s ministry would have been different, the audi…

What’s The Matter With Joe Biden? As Disgust Builds Over Calamity in Gaza the President Offers Only Toothless Criticism

By Haroon Moghul

…ric to the Senator from Delaware? Though Israel’s war has killed appalling numbers of journalists and aid workers, and repeatedly targeted medical facilities, mosques, schools and clearly civilian targets, racking up a civilian death count unparalleled in modern war, Biden’s sporadic criticisms are toothless—he continues sending weapons and shielding Tel Aviv from accountability. There’s a word for people who esteem some lives more than others. No…

Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…y say so in the Constitution. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – David Barton Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – David Barton Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook But…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ty gospel, only in the opposite direction: a business using the tools of a spiritual community, instead of a spiritual community celebrating the values of a business. Here, too, we get the unambiguous mélange of the profitable and the ethereal. And here, too, there’s a fierce emphasis on individual improvement, in which positive thinking is linked to physical gains. SoulCycle isn’t alone in its willingness to fuse spirituality with publicly traded…

Florida Gov’s Plan Would Aid those who Seek Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…School (RBCS) in Niceville, Florida to add significantly to their student numbers by attracting students who could not otherwise effort to attend. They also have an entire program to support home schoolers. RBCS uses Rushdoony’s work in their high school classroom and Rushdoony was their first graduation speaker; they teach only young earth creationism and a version of American history that resembles that taught by David Barton but which predates…

Americans Are Overtreated to Death

By Daniel Schultz

…six months of life are rising: from 1,302 per 1,000 Medicare recipients in 1996 to 1,441 in 2005, Dartmouth reports. Treating chronic illness in the last two years of life gobbles up nearly one-third of all Medicare dollars. The article pins the blame on doctors and patients alike. Doctors tend to exhaust all the treatment options before throwing in the towel, and often don’t explain properly the options to their patients. The patients, meanwhile…

Why is the Pope Popular Among Nones?

By Kaya Oakes

…of anti-Catholicism. Fear of Catholics was so rampant that nativists in the 1800s regularly spread rumors that Catholic immigrants were going to install the pope as America’s leader in a coup, and in 1844 Catholic churches were burned and Catholics hunted down by mobs. Protestant army officers abused Irish Catholic soldiers so badly some defected to the Mexican side during the 1846 war (they were subsequently hanged), and the KKK unleashed verbal…

Religion Poll Proves that Liberals Are Not Conservatives

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…-washy “L-word.” The virulent attack on the liberal label began long before 1988. Instead, it was the culmination of years of attacks on liberalism by conservatives since at least the 1960s. After the ‘88 election, “liberal” was officially a dirty word. Unfortunately, despite Obama’s win last November after a campaign full of liberal values and promises, the word itself has never quite recovered its past respect. That’s why the results of George B…

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

By Robert M. Geraci

…rebirth—than the hero’s journey. Remember the datagloves and headsets circa 1990? The metaverse’s death in one hype wave simply promotes its rebirth into a world of suffering a few years later. I suppose that’s why our stories that include virtual reality—WALL-E, for example—so overwhelmingly point toward dehumanization and domination. At best, we find morally bankrupt escapism. But we keep trying! And now Meta tells us that the future is now, the…

Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…t in their lives. However, given six decades of a repressive policy, those numbers are, according to Pew, surprisingly high. Moreover, they represent a large number of people, “nearly equal the estimated number of religiously affiliated adults in the United States” Accordingly, the 1-plus % of the Chinese population that identifies itself as Muslim equals some 20.3 million people—a population almost as large as Saudi Arabia’s. (More to the point,…