Religion Dispatches
…y, which was point of this ad.” Traffic to FOFA’s web site increased forty times, and a million people viewed a video interview of the Tebow family by Focus on the Family’s president, Jim Daly. Earll said the interview has a “moving, powerful pro-life message, and has strong gospel message also.” The goal of the ad, she added, “was to start a new dialogue in the country, to move us away from telling people what to think, and to move people toward…
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…ive. But the very pathos that has been induced by slavery, racism, and our American obsession with what constitutes beauty is painful to watch. The unresolved pain, and the lack of attention to the history of why hair has become such an obsession for African American women in particular, is the only drawback to this otherwise insightful and entertaining movie. And FYI: all of the hair on my head is mine. It is not a weave. But please, ask me befor…
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…ve family on the oil patch. I’ve also wondered if oil money is tied to the newly constructed financial advising firms that I’ve noticed around town. The Overnighters gave me a glimpse into this world that’s very close, and yet very distant, that was far more moving and far more intimate than any of the other documentaries I’ve watched or news stories I’ve read. The film has also left me far more haunted by questions about what’s really happening f…
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…en waiting for. Amazingly, the Alecs, who beam their broadcasts around the world from Jerusalem, are without apology using Israel’s 60th anniversary as a celebration of the power of belief in Jesus to perform miracles in your life. While 1,700 followers joined the Alecs in Jerusalem recently, the ones that couldn’t sent in their requests for prayer, read aloud by the Alecs in an “Up to Jerusalem” special edition of their program, “Behind the Scree…
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…hical area in order to build a bridge to the other important biomes of our world: the Congo basin, the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, the tropical forests of the Asia Pacific region, and the Guarani Aquifer, among others.” This approach shows how a global organization can be useful. The Amazon, the so-called “lungs of the universe,” is seen to be on life support given the ways in which the land has been exploited by developers and the people ha…
Read More…evangelical teens about anti-God, anti-Christian threats to the “Christian worldview” and the American way of life. In his seminal textbook, Understanding the Times, Noebel lays out six “worldviews”—Christianity, Islam, secular humanism, Marxism-Leninism, cosmic humanism, and post-modernism—vying for domination in the world. By his own estimate he has educated 30,000 teenagers at his one and two-week conferences at Summit in Colorado and its outpo…
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…and barbarians such that, even in 2021, 74% of Republicans and 50% of all Americans agreed with the statement: “Islam is at odds with American values and ways of life.” In other words, to be an American is to be a Christian. Therefore, since Muslims are portrayed as enemies of civilization—i.e. as enemies-of-Christ—a significant percentage of Americans are inspired by Netanyahu’s religious rhetoric, imagining themselves as mutually engaged in def…
Read More…ion ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin—the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vou…
Read More…ica’s enemies on a collision course with besieged Christians. He tells the Times: “I don’t think we are exaggerating the dangers to the country, the culture, the American family.” Or, as Wildmon’s fears are made clear: “Mr. Wildmon warns that if current social trends go unchecked, ‘homosexuals will become part of an elite class’ and ‘Christians will be second-class citizens at best.’” The most powerful person in Texas and a contender to be the mo…
Read More…s a good thing, whether that is about global warming or evolution.” As the New York Times article suggests, the strategy’s roots are in the 2005 Cobb County, Ga. case, in which the school board there put warning stickers on biology books, saying evolution is “not just a theory, not a fact.” A judge struck down the warning stickers as unconstitutional because it unfairly targeted evolution for special scrutiny: After that, said Joshua Rosenau, a pr…
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