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New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

By Gordon Haber

…a myriad of external and internal factors,” “laziness” comes first on his list of causes. “The United States is so prosperous that even our poor are rich compared to people in most of the world,” Hovind writes. “The poor in America usually have air conditioning, a car, a television, and a telephone.” These (alleged) facts must be a great comfort to the Americans struggling with joblessness and poverty. There is some decent advice about budgeting…

Are Messianic Jews Unfairly Shunned by Jews?

By Sarah Posner

…th will have a deep impact on Jewish-Christian relations. The uproar over Bush is one of what I suspect will be a growing list of examples. …

Who Are Michigan Catholic Bishops to Judge?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…would continue to put at the top of their pastoral and political priority list issues like marriage equality, “religious freedom,” and abortion that have nothing to do with the core of teachings of Jesus about feeding the poor, tending the sick, and like that. Indeed, in their 2014 advocacy priorities, even education is not primarily about improving access to learning for children, but rather focuses on shifting limited public funding to private…

Noah vs. 1929 Epic Noah’s Ark

By Gwynne Watkins

…29. Called Noah’s Ark, it was directed by Michael Curtiz, whose impressive list of credits would later include Casablanca. Like the new film directed by Darren Aronofsky, it was ridiculously expensive to make and plagued by production disasters. The similarities don’t quite end there, but it’s the differences that may be most illuminating. First off, a disclaimer: I have not seen an advance screening of Noah, nor have I seen Noah’s Ark. Regarding…

True Detective’s Occult Conspiracy

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…semi-obscure references. Noir aficionado Lincoln Michel gives us a reading list of the Gothic novels the show draws from; Louisianan Adrian Young writes in Slate about True Detective’s setting as a cultural landscape; while Emily Nussbaum’s smart feminist critique in last week’s New Yorker notes what’s not there, namely three-dimensional female characters. My own humble contribution to this critical bumper crop has to do with the word “occult,” th…

Kansas Tries to Figure Out Its Own Religious Freedom Laws

By Sarah Posner

…t nudists can go shop in the grocery store without putting clothes on? The list is endless if we’re going to start doing things like that.” Schuttloffel characterized a business owner’s refusal to serve a gay person as “immoral,” but suggested that making flower arrangements for a wedding would constitute participation in an immoral act. But what if a gay man is purchasing flowers as an engagement gift for his boyfriend? If anti-gay advocates want…

Promise Keepers Launches Effort to Support Messianic Jews in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…ere headed to Israel to meet with 20-25 prominent Messianic Jews and evangelists there, including Calev Myers of the Jerusalem Institute for Justice, a lawyer who represents many Messianic Jews; Rick Ridings of Succat Hallel, a house of prayer modeled on the International House of Prayer in Kansas City; and Tom Hess, who operates the Jerusalem House of Prayer for All Nations on the Mount of Olives. “We have a list that keeps growing,” said Jesse….

Atheists Support L.A. Pastor Who Faces “Tribunal” for LGBT Advocacy

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…unity member to support Pastor Seth Pickens of Zion Hill Baptist church in South Los Angeles. A few days before, I’d received an urgent plea from Teka-Lark Fleming, publisher of the local Morningside Park Chronicle newspaper, encouraging progressive black folk to show up at Zion Hill in support of Seth’s pro-LGBTQ stance. After publishing a column entitled “The 10 Reasons I Love LGBTQ folk” in Fleming’s paper, Pickens came under fire from church o…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…ines, up to 14 days in jail, and deportation. The law makes it a crime to promote LGBT equality in public, but lacks concrete legal definitions for key terms. Russian authorities have indicated a broad interpretation of what constitutes “LGBT propaganda,” and provided vague guidance as to which actions will be interpreted by authorities as “LGBT propaganda.” LGBT travelers should review the State Department’s LGBT Travel Information page. Sen…

Are Liberals Too “Special” to Go to Church?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ed war, coercive religious conversion, and colonialism perhaps topping the list of ills) imago dei theology is also at the root of liberal ideas of the dignity and worth of each person. Could it also be, among more liberal Nones, at least, that the very theologies that highlighted their uniqueness as “God’s special creations” invite them see themselves as profoundly different from the those in the faith communities in which they were raised? Thoug…