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Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…he model for society and to the Puritans as an exemplar of the modern application of biblical law. They argue for a distinction between theonomy and the more commonly used theocracy on the basis of what they claim is a biblical division of earthly authority set forth by God. In their view, God ordained three separate spheres of human government: family government, church (ecclesiastical) government, and civil government. Each sphere is charged wit…

A Monumentally Different Kirk Cameron

By Julie Ingersoll

…s participation here and here) where he and Phillips discussed the theological background to the version of American history presented in the film, showing the subtle influence of Christian Reconstructionism and R.J. Rushdoony’s Biblical Philosophy of History. Cameron tapped into contemporary tea party memes about slavery, which are rooted in Rushdoony, and whether or not the president is a Christian (which is damaging whether interpreted to imply…

‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?

By Frances Kissling

…kies. The sisters, whose claim to oppressed persons status is that the Vatican called them “radical feminists” and slapped their wrists, are more lauded for their courage than Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent nearly 15 years under house arrest. Months before the election is the perfect time for the CHA to press its case for an exemption from the policy, which would not only allow it freedom from following the law on contraceptive ins…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…rough. But as a political person, I can’t help but see the belief that one can escape history by changing one’s own consciousness as a fantasy. “The last people we imagine doing yoga are impoverished or otherwise disenfranchised people, such as inner-city at-risk youth or incarcerated people trapped in dilapidated jails and prisons.” Devi’s conception of reincarnation as something that both explains the world’s injustices and promises to redress t…

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…rs at the Columbine and Sandy Hook schools. On the other hand, he was ethnically a Muslim, which automatically convicts him in some simplistic minds. And he is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”) before the police opened fire on him at the end of his murderous rampage. This phrase, however, is somewhat like the English language expression, “Lord of mercy,” that can be expressed by anyone in a moment of travail regardless of the de…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…g an abstract civil war, but because forces that want violence, or have no response to violence, or are just oblivious to where it comes from, have been shaping the decisions too many of us have been making. Because the scary thing is, there are people out there who want this World War to become a lot bloodier, a lot uglier, and a lot scarier. We saw what one of them could do last weekend in Florida….

When Muhammad Ali Met Billy Graham

By Paul Harvey

…slims. We know our current president is one.” Later, after the shooting in San Bernardino, California, Trump called for the banning of all immigration of Muslims until “we know what the hell is going on.” His rise to being the presumed nominee, and his considerable inroads into grassroots evangelical votes, accompanied (and no doubt benefited from) such messages. Around the same time late last year, the Wheaton College political science professor…

Times‘ Cutesy Guide Veils Humanity of Muslim Women

By Mariam Durrani

…minor piece buried in the Times’ World section really matter? It matters because segments of American media continue to believe their problematic, and even sexist, stereotypes of Muslim women, are representative of the variegated and complex experiences and aspirations of Muslim subjects across the world. Rather than shed light on Muslim women’s lives, these articles contribute to the Islamophobic perceptions and stereotypes, which during this yea…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…atawake, for “freely” taking part in last year’s Pride parade in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. The letter also references a picture of “a group” of gay men who were “semi-naked and hugging each other” in the pool of Brewster and Satawake’s official residence that a Dominican newspaper published. “We view this invitation to public homosexuality as an indecency and a lack of decorum that shames the modesty of the majority of the Dominican…

It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

…within the evangelical definition.” But it does so by simplifying evangelicalism, casting what makes it ostensibly unique into the murky waters of belief. Evangelicals do, of course, have particular beliefs, and these are well captured in the research definition, albeit in condensed form. Nevertheless, I don’t think any contemporary scholar of religion would reduce religious identification to stated, or even non-stated, beliefs. Religion is a far…