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Whom Will She Wreck?: The Real Sarah Palin Question

By Anthea Butler

…Palin threw in a good line here and there, as when she addressed her poor numbers: “Polls? They’re for strippers and cross-country skiers!” While the media continues to focus on whether or not she’s going to run, Palin is pulling a classic populist move, solidifying her base of Teavangelicals making sure that they’re 100% on board with her program to oust President Obama and wreck shop with the Republican Primaries. The question isn’t is she or i…

Bachmann Beats Palin at Christian Testimony

By Anthea Butler

…conservative filmmaker Steven K. Bannon in The Undefeated, which opened in 10 cities around the country. While Palinites munched on popcorn and high-fived each other on Twitter about the movie, Bachmann was working the pews at the Des Moines First Assembly of God church. Who won the political box office weekend testimony fest? Bachmann. Bachmann wins this weekend, and will continue to win the Christian credibility game because she is not afraid t…

Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…announcement that the Oregon province of Jesuits had just agreed to pay out 166 million to Native Americans and Alaska Natives abused at boarding schools and fishing villages, and to write a letter of apology to those abused. Perhaps that news also played a role in reiterating the Charter’s statement. Protesting for Lent Last year, I was disgusted with the church. This year, I remain disgusted, but I am also resolved to write all that I can about…

Mike Huckabee’s Fox News Problem

By Sarah Posner

…e gets all the limelight,” chimed in Amy Walker, a Huckabee supporter from Alaska who was also supporting Joe Miller, the GOP Senate candidate Palin supported over incumbent Lisa Murkowski. “I would hands down support Huckabee,” Walker said. “As much as I respect Sarah Palin, Huckabee has the experience, the ability, the fortitude, everything that you need.” All three women extolled what they described as Huckabee’s connection with ordinary people…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…stival” Jubilee Award—with its $101,000 cash prize—was The Widow’s Might, a 101-minute film written and directed by 19-year-old John Moore of Kaufman, Texas, with David Heustis and Jeff Moreland serving as producers. The film is “a feature length comedy-adventure that tells the fictional story of how aspiring filmmakers came to the aid of an elderly widow who faced losing her home due to rising property taxes.” According to a Festival Press Releas…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…t an Israeli flag on the windowsill of her office when she was governor of Alaska [see photo, top]. She received the flag from close friends who had visited Israel, and she kept it on her windowsill because of her “great love for Israel.” When Palin repeats Netanyahu’s mantra “Jerusalem is not a settlement,” she does so with a naiveté that the Israeli Prime Minister cannot permit himself. As Israeli critics have pointed out for decades, and as eve…

Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the ‘On-Demand’ God

By Anthea Butler

…various New Testament texts (including I Corinthians 12-8-10, I Corinthians 12:28, and Romans 12:3-8). These gifts, or practices, include healings, exorcism, speaking and interpretation of tongues, words of wisdom, and prophetic utterances. Speaking in tongues or glossolialia, once touted as the primary practice of Pentecostals is now, despite the occasional outburst of televangelists, something very few Pentecostals engage in according to a 2006…

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…uthanasia and the flat-out lie about “Obama’s death panels” told by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and echoed by too many crackpots to name. But the notion that we as a nation could make a civil change in direction finally gave up the ghost when a protester in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, showed up with a pistol strapped to his leg and a sign calling for the refreshment of the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. That was a patriotic senti…

Religious Right Very Much Alive in Tomorrow’s Elections

By Sarah Posner

…that working women and feminists were “detrimental” to the family, that the 1972 Supreme Court legalization of contraceptive use by married couples was “illogical,” and called for policy favoritism for married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.” Yet, in no small part aided by Deeds’ ineffectiveness, McDonnell has managed to downplay the culture war issues and portray himself as the reasonable technocrat who will solve Virginia…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…hardy bunch, live here year round, braving temperatures that will climb to 130 degrees. It was 112 when I was there Saturday and Sunday. At the entrance to Slab City is Salvation Mountain, an adobe mountain covered in bright paint and topped with a white cross. Its creator is Leonard Knight, a desert prophet, an Elijah, who says God sent him here 30 years ago and commanded his Chevy dump truck to break down. While Knight was waiting to get his tr…