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The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…treatments on you that you’re not comfortable with. The Health Freedom Summit isn’t new, there was one in 2015, but at that time the topics of discussion were opposition to GMOs; the benefits of a raw food diet and organic farming; the value of essential oils for health; the importance of maintaining a high vibrational frequency; functional medicine; traditional Chinese medicine and qigong; and more of the new age spirituality diet and health adv…

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

…outgoing administration. Yet it goes deeper than this. Trump attended the New York church of Norman Vincent Peale in his youth. Peale took the positive affirmations of New Thought and turned them into religious principles and economic maxims. It also goes further than Christianity, connecting to new age thinking found in works expounding the Law of Attraction, such as Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret, now in its tenth edition. The Law of Attraction stat…

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

By Elizabeth Shively

…demon or Jezebel figure; and once, she writes, she even played sex itself, miming the role in a skit about a Christian resisting temptations. It wasn’t until she was physically emaciated and weak, recovering from surgery due to untreated Crohn’s disease that she was offered the role of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the church Nativity play. It was only when both her body and spirit had been whittled down to size that she was deemed appropriate to repr…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…ate responses to this wave of attacks on Black churches. USA Today and the New York Times provided daily coverage, as did major television network news programs. They deployed many reporters on the story, who were in communication with the Justice Department and ATF officials, who were themselves scrambling to keep up with events. President Clinton, facing re-election, met directly with pastors of burned churches and with the National Council of C…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…arlow about West’s complaint, he shrugged it off, saying that he was not familiar with the term New Apostolic Reformation, even though he knew its founder, Peter Wagner. “I have a lot of confidence in him spiritually,” Garlow said of Wagner. “There are a lot of theological differences here, but we’re focusing on one issue: Jesus,” Garlow added. “It’s not about whether Perry becomes president, it’s about making Jesus king.” Jesus = Obedience Mike B…

Religious Right & Catholic Bishops Plan Post-NY Marriage Strategy

By Peter Montgomery

…their allies celebrated, anti-marriage forces plotted their next steps in New York, Minnesota, North Carolina, and elsewhere. NOM responded to its “betrayal” by lawmakers who had previously voted or campaigned against marriage equality by vowing political reprisals and pledging to spend $2 million to unseat those legislators. Meanwhile, the bishops, who were outmaneuvered by a straight, Catholic governor in one of the most heavily Catholic states…

Why Hipsters May Be Perfect Source for Brooklyn Occult Revival

By Joseph Laycock

…evival. The 1960s and 1970s were also regarded as an occult renaissance in New York City and, in fact, the original Dutch settlers likely brought their own magical traditions to Manhattan. However, this is certainly the most stylish occult renaissance to date. A recent article in The Huffington Post profiles seven Brooklyn Tarot readers, each of which features lavish headshots, descriptions of ritual objects, and personal narratives of each divine…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…es (angels delivering golden plates to a boy in early 19th-century upstate New York, modern-day prophets and everyday saints receiving revelations from Heavenly Father) requires that Mormon believers occupy a rich and imaginatively demanding spiritual world. But even in this “jungle of belief,” Mormons don’t think on a daily basis about the theology behind their sacred underwear. They don’t pine for their own planets. Such obsession with what Morm…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…less than a rite of June. Another seasonal advent is the expansion of the New York Times Weddings/Celebrations pages of the Sunday Styles section. “The wedding page is a weekly obsession for thousands of Times readers,” David Brooks wrote in 1997. Timothy Noah of Slate agreed, saying that they contain a “certain camp value for readers.” Mothers, hipsters, politicos, and the lovelorn concur: reading the Times wedding pages is periodical porn. Wher…

Archbishop’s Theology is Wearing No Clothes

By Mary E. Hunt

…well-meaning colleagues that nothing of the sort lurks in these lines. As New York State moves closer and closer to approving same-sex marriage, Dolan becomes, as Peter Montgomery points out, increasingly histrionic unto hysterical. His remarkable blog entry, “The True Meaning of Marriage,” will endure as the intellectual last wag of the dog’s tail on a question that has long been solved in the minds of many Catholics. Timothy Dolan apparently su…