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The Only Thing Evangelicals Will Never Forgive Is Not Hating the “Other”

By Frank Schaeffer

…success American style—in other words, as measured by money, possessions, numbers, and (above all) celebrity status. The consumer picks a pastor based on where the action seems to be: “Wow, you ought to hear our pastor!” Such “churches” are often founded by a man or woman who started them the way other men and women start a restaurant or a movie company. In Warren’s case, he is pastor of a church called Saddleback, but it’s more properly known as…

A Reader Writes: I’m Not Personally LGBTQ Affirming, But I Recognize That Difference is Good — So Can’t We Coexist Amicably?

By Chrissy Stroop

…o further documentation of the street preaching phenomenon available on my website. In any case, if I’ve understood you correctly, then you’re already far better at practicing pluralism and coexistence than most people, at least in the American context, who share what you call “a traditional view of sexuality.” What constitutes a “traditional view,” of course, is context-dependent and arguable—many societies have historically recognized genders be…

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…phate Glenn Beck Threshold Editions (August 18, 2015) Haroon: Already? The website says it won’t be out until tomorrow. Strand: It could be a review copy returned to us. Would you like it on hold, so someone else doesn’t—(fails to suppress laughter)—buy it first? Haroon: Yeah, uh, sure, because it’s for, a, like a friend. Of which I have many. Strand: We’ll need your friend’s name and credit card. Shit. Allegations include: That Islam is not, like…

Does the Susan B. Anthony List Know Santorum Supports Funding Planned Parenthood?

By Sarah Posner

…ssue. You know, it’s funny that I’ve been criticized by Governor Romney and by Ron Paul for actually having voted for something called Title X, which is actually federal funding of contraception.” Watch: According to the SBA List website, Santorum has pledged to defund Planned Parenthood. So he’s either misleading them, or he’s misleading everyone by attempting to use his past record on Title X funding to pretend he supports access to contraceptio…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nvestigate claims that clerics had posted nude photos of themselves on gay websites, sexually harassed the faithful and stole church funds. Two years later the pope replaced the leader of the diocese, Bishop Mario Oliveri. Germany: Some Merkel allies to push for marriage equality A January poll by the federal anti-discrimination agency found that 83 percent of Germans support marriage equality, but opposition by conservative Christian Democrats an…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…of Judeo-Christian in its mission statement, the popular Generation Joshua website is more explicit and honest about its religious orientation: “We seek to inspire everyone of our members with faith in God and a hope of what America can become as we equip Christian citizens and leaders to impact our nation for Christ and His glory,” a mission unlikely to appeal to many American Jews, whatever their political persuasion. Today, terms like “Judeo-Ch…

QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…cond, we may see factionalism in the movement, with some followers being siphoned off into other movements and groups and continuing their activism in ways that become only loosely tied to QAnon. Third, we may see the movement carry on as if nothing has changed. Many of these followers may instead be rejuvenated in their quest, arguing that, as their ally in the White House has been defeated, they need to come together and fight harder than ever b…

Evangelical PR Guru Signs Up for Romney Campaign Again

By Sarah Posner

…al outreach he did for Romney again. In other Romney-evangelical news, the website Evangelicals for Mitt is up and running again, maintained by conservative Christian lawyer David French (who recently joined the American Center for Law and Justice, which is run by Jay Sekulow, who also supported Romney in 2008), his wife Nancy, and Charles Mitchell. At the 2007 Values Voters Summit, Mitchell told me EFM represented evangelicals who were tired of t…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ual heart of most churches as they present themselves in worship services, websites, and other public platforms. An “atheist most days” from Virginia who had been raised in a progressive Episcopalian church talked warmly about annual youth group service trips to Haiti, Mexico, New Orleans, and other “areas in need.” He insisted that these trips had been incredibly important in his personal and spiritual development. But, he said, they were basical…

American Jewish Leaders Get Gaza Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…by the Al Qassam Brigades). Yousef Munayyer provides some history of the numbers from Gaza at Open Zion: For example, in 2011, the projectiles fired by the Israeli military into Gaza have been responsible for the death of 108 Palestinians, of which 15 where women or children, and the injury of 468 Palestinians, of which 143 where women or children. The methods by which these causalities were inflicted by Israeli projectiles breaks down as follow…