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Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…rsion of this sermon appeared in the July-August 1984 issue of the BGEA magazine Decision. The article, with Graham’s byline, began with the preacher’s reluctance to address the topic, stated that hell was created for the devil and his angels, described the three kinds of hell, and speculated that the fire of hell was a burning in the heart for fellowship with God. Many of the words of the article were exactly those Graham had preached. The articl…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…d turn to religion. Again, I noticed the same thing at the 9/12 rally. The minute they are pressed to explain themselves with facts, they fall back on faith: Lisa Deaton, a small-business owner in Columbus, Ind., who started We the People Indiana, a Tea Party affiliate, is supporting Mr. Young in part because of his stand against climate change legislation. “They’re trying to use global warming against the people,” Ms. Deaton said. “It takes away…

FRC’s Perkins Selling Straight Hot Sex

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…stians need to pay attention to here, and challenge through that media megaphone—if you can stop thinking about sex for just one minute—is the FRC’s absolute and total hypocrisy on the issue of welfare. In this presentation, they point out that welfare recipients are the most productive workers, the “heavy lifters of the economy.” FRC praises these families that have more mouths to feed, for their Protestant work ethic. Which begs the question abo…

‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood

By Cathleen Falsani

…raying and it just fell,” before exiting the church. On his way out of the sanctuary, Frank bends down to pick up a piece of the shattered plaster statue. It’s Jesus’ ear. “Well, I’ve got God’s ear now,” he deadpans. If Frank had had some momentary come-to-Jesus epiphany, it would have rung false. His lack of belief doesn’t make him a better or worse man, but his utter disdain and the sheer hatred that projected his spit bespeak the heart of the m…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…ion thermometers. Instead, one of his students answered that his mother, a Santeria practitioner originally from Puerto Rico, liked to sprinkle it around their apartment to fend off witches. Witches? Concerned and curious, Wendroff soon became a one-man watchdog of the ritualistic use of mercury. He learned that many practitioners of Caribbean religions like Santeria, Palo, and Voodoo believe that mercury can bring good luck and keep evil spirits…

Bernie’s Roman Holiday

By Daniel Schultz

…well ask Bernie Sanders the same question, except, well, he didn’t really. Sanders flew to Rome overnight to deliver a ten-minute speech to an academic conference put on by the Pontifical Academy for Social Science looking back on John Paul II’s encyclical Centesimus Annus—itself a review of Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum a hundred years after its publication. How he kind-of-sort-of got invited to this event in the first place is a story unto itself, bu…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…omosexual unions – I mean, they exist, we don’t deny reality, but we don’t sanction them in an official form in the document,” he said. But he said the document does specify a number of halachic principles related to the need “to include homosexuals within faith communities and make them feel at ease in their community.” …He said the document was created in response to the fact “that homosexuals choose increasingly to remain within faith communiti…

What’s Behind the “Common Sense” Rhetoric of Bathroom Bill?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…h certificate, which is determined by your plumbing. That’s objective. The minute you base law on subjectivity, it’s like saying, you know what, I think a green light means stop and a red light means go.” Similar logical twists took place earlier this month when participants in a South Carolina county’s school board meeting erupted in a spontaneous chorus of “Jesus Loves Me” in a response to one woman’s attempt to defend trans students’ rights to…

Of Birds and Buddhists: Wildlife Rehab, NYC Style

By Jay Wexler

…become big business. There, some large temples pay trappers to provide thousands, even tens of thousands, of small reptiles or birds, which are then released into inappropriate habitats. Many of the animals die or are recaptured, and the practice as a whole wreaks enormous havoc on the environment. Smaller releases like the ones Cramer, McMahon, and Benkong organize serve as reminders that collecting karma need not be environmentally harmful. The…

The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween “Hell Houses”

By Lucia Hulsether

…geantry, which brings participants—a total of 25,000 every October—on a 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods. We observed intensely violent renditions of standard end-times scenarios: the rapture of believers; an ensuing period of torture and tribulation for the faithless “left behind”; a climactic battle between Jesus and Satan; and a final judgment in which Jesus orders a teenage church-girl to be dragged by demons into hell for “knowi…