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My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

In the last week of June, two different circles of blogs invested in the Quiverfull movement—both as critics and supporters of the pro-natalist, patriarchal, conservative Christian lifestyle—focused on the sad news of the death of one Quiverfull mother’s child shortly after birth. The woman was Carri Chmielewski, author of the now-private blog “Carri Me Away,” where she described her Quiverfull lifestyle, eschewing contraception, having as many c…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise By Bethany Moreton (Harvard University Press, 2009) People like us don’t do Wal-Mart. The very name conjures retrograde rednecks, and the company’s M.O.—its sexism, anti-unionism, low wages, insufficient health care, foreign product sourcing, adverse environmental practices, and toxic impact on local businesses—has made the moniker synonymous with free-market blight. But people li…

All You Had to Do Was Express Regret: Pope Benedict XVI’s Rocky Visit to Yad Vashem

By Adam Gregerman

Pope Benedict XVI’s recent visit to Israel prompted expressions of anger and disappointment among many Israelis and Jews around the world. Surprisingly, few reacted to his political statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one of the rawest controversies in current geopolitics, even though Benedict movingly sympathized with Palestinian suffering, explicitly endorsed a two-state solution, and lamented the building of Israel’s separation bar…

The Two Faces of New Atheism

By Konstantin Petrenko

If one were to name the most intriguing recent development in America’s religious life, it would have to be the unprecedented rise of disbelief, or what many have dubbed “the New Atheism.” The tendency in the media has been either to hail this phenomenon as the latest cultural fad or to dismiss it as a secular equivalent of religious fundamentalism. In reality, it is neither of these. The New Atheism is a complex movement that has the potential b…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

What is happening to Christianity? In 1996 a team from Ted Haggard’s New Life Church flew to Mali and began furtively anointing entire towns with cooking oil. The strangeness of it gripped Dutch missionary René Holvast, who later wrote: “It was confusing and produced a growing uneasiness. It did not seem to fit our current evangelical theological and anthropological textbooks.” The team from Haggard’s church was a forerunner in a missionary wave…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

I have to admit that, during the Republican primary, I developed a genuine affinity for Mike Huckabee. Of all of the Republican and religious right figures I have followed in ten years as an analyst for People For the American Way, Huckabee presented something different: a down-to-earth, funny, and likable guy who was willing to break with his party’s orthodoxy to stand up for the little guy—all while plunking away on his bass guitar. That image,…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

Connecticut Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage On October 10, Connecticut became the third state—after Massachusetts and California—to legalize same-sex marriage. In a 4-3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the state had “failed to establish adequate reason to justify the statutory ban on same-sex marriage.” In its 85-page decision, the justices noted in the majority opinion that they recognized “as the Massachusetts Supreme Jud…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

On May 15, 2008 I posted a short video on YouTube of Pastor John Hagee, assembled with the free iMovie software that came with my three-year-old MacBook [view the video at the end of this article—ed.]. In just a few days, Americans began to absorb the reality that Republican presidential candidate John McCain had sought and accepted an endorsement from a religious leader who’d asserted a divine mandate for the Holocaust and claimed that Jews them…

Despite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity

By H.A. Hellyer

Having been in Cairo since just before the uprising began I’ve witnessed the tensions between Muslims and Christians erupt into violence over the past week, which has resulted in a church being attacked, and fighting between Egyptian citizens. The response of the country was unanimous, and I saw it play out on Friday, the first after this outbreak. Friday has become the day of prayer and protest in Egypt every week – and they do go hand in hand h…

New Study Shows 1.7%, 4%, or 10% of Americans are Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

The religious right is crowing over a new demographic study which, they say, shows that only 1.7 percent of the U.S. population is gay or lesbian—putting to rest the long held belief that LGBT people represent about 10 percent of the population. “Time to stop getting pushed around by such a tiny minority,” asserted the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer. But, the Associated Press story that Fischer and his pals are celebrating misreprese…