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When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…bles (The Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically correct a story as you’ll find: a black young man bordering on delinquency is hired by a tetraplegic wealthy man to be his assistant-nurse-chauffeur. They have a ball together doing crazy—and sometimes nasty—things, and save each other from an apparently inexo…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…d obedience, and offering spiritual encouragement to families caring for children with disabilities. Which image is correct? The sharp split between two reflects a persistent divide in representations of Mormons. Nineteenth-century stereotypes depicting Mormons as secretive, deluded, and possibly dangerous persist, while contemporary Mormon efforts have promoted friendly, hardworking, family-oriented, well-scrubbed counter-images. The real story,…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…achers, so he had little use for Athens. This may be beginning to sound eerily familiar. Climate change? A leftist lie of the scientists; and once you’ve sniffed out a series of allegedly incriminating emails, then you no longer have to deal with the overwhelming numbers that demonstrate the upward trending of the planet’s mean temperature, or the astonishing images of our melting polar ice caps. The federal deficit? Easily fixed. Our nation’s cre…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…incite tightly twined spiritual and political outrage. When such outrage spills into the streets, the enduring tradition has been to brand dissenters as villains, hooligans, and rioters regardless of their actual participation in any violent action and without consideration of underlying causes that may not justify but might explain the roots of what Darcus Howe insisted to BBC anchor Fiona Armstrong was no mere opportunistic rioting but “an insur…

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…ownership. Despite the history of slavery and “the inequalities that we still deal with on a daily basis,” black people in the United States “still don’t feel the need to live in fear the way the white community does, although we have cause to fear,” she said. Schenck, notably, did not defend the predominant white evangelical view. “I couldn’t agree more with what Lucy is saying,” he said, adding that the Bible warns of a time “when people want t…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…s,” I am realistic enough to know that what he does to bring about change in the Roman Catholic Church and in the world he had better do now while the window is still open and he can still see out of it….

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…re the most theologically complete assessment of early American history available, R.J. Rushdoony reveals a foundation of American History of philosophical and theological substance. This series extends through 1865, the year that marked the beginning of the secular attempts to rewrite history. There can be no understanding of American History without an understanding of the ideas which undergirded its founding and growth. In “Why History Matters,…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…was a book on astrology—fortune-telling: how to predict the outcome of an illness, the character of a child, the success of a journey or a marriage or a battle, the site of buried treasure, the identity of a thief. Fifteen chapters tell how to forecast the weather. Juste looked around nervously. “Wait a minute. We have to be very careful. I expect we’ll get in trouble. We are not supposed to consult the manuscripts together. Why? It’s the rules….

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…en were all vegetarian. In addition to Noah’s Ark, which developers claim will be built to scale, there will also be a replica of the Tower of Babel, a walled city similar to ancient times, live animal shows and a children’s play area and a 1st Century Medieval Village. There will be no roller coasters or other thrill rides. AIG’s partner in the theme park project, Ark Encounter LLC, is a for-profit business based in Missouri. Kentucky Gov. Steve…