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The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…man Vincent Peale and the many instances of commonality between Peale and Billy Graham (including their shared mentorship of Robert Schuller); He shows how New Thought and prosperity preaching can easily, if not logically, coexist with premillennarian ideas about imminent destruction and judgment; He writes adeptly on the interplay between 1970s economic decline and its imposition of new gender roles, as well as the emergence of the Servant Leader…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…th the assistance of humans working according to the divine or superhuman will and plan.” Millennial movements may or may not have “prophets,” persons believed to be speaking a message from God or some other higher being. Millennial movements may or may not have a “messiah,” someone who’s believed by followers to be empowered by an unseen source of authority to create the collective salvation for the “elect.” A range of behaviors is associated wit…

Religion and Other Animals

By Paul Waldau

…he door to a fundamental question faced by people of divergent faiths—who will humans acknowledge as constitutive of their greater selves? References: Peter Miller, “Jane Goodall.”National Geographic 188, no. 6 (1995). Kimberly Patton, “‘He Who Sits in the Heavens Laughs’: Recovering Animal Theology in the Abrahamic Traditions.”The Harvard Theological Review 93, no.1 (2000): 401-34. Sightings comes from the Martin Marty Center at the University of…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…sional panel cleared the way for a vote on an anti-sex selective abortion bill this week). But more important than new ideas was the opportunity for emotional impact. “I propose that we—the pro-life movement—adopt as our next goal the banning of sex-and race-selective abortion,” said Mosher. “Even those who believe in the absolute right to destroy a child under any and all circumstances, it is safe to predict, will be uncomfortable defending such…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…knowing gay and lesbian people, so I think it’s inevitable. I think there will be a sector of evangelicalism that will go past mainline protestant denominations, which have more institutional restraints. The more autonomous congregations will outpace them in acceptance. That’s going to be the big surprise. How soon do you predict that? If there are congregations like ours that can demonstrate that you can survive financially, then I think there wi…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…Ramadan feels comfortable being included among them. We have an increasing number of men recognized as intellectuals whose self-appointed role as leaders gives me pause. Is this the result of having leading ideas that we all can follow and benefit from, like these three men? Or what about the question of the integrity of leadership, does it bring the scholarly contributions under question? Whatever happens in the future, if women’s ways of knowing…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…ritual explanations made more sense than her Catholic upbringing. “My thought was that I wasn’t alone,” she said. Later, she found Jackson’s information and began studying with her. Al Haqq will definitely fill a major void in Panama City, Chanis said. “This is the first time we have a place for Panamanians,” she said. “And everyone’s welcome.”…

Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…s Dennis Hastert, also a Republican, and Nancy Pelosi. Over the years, the number of people attending grew, eventually leading to the creation of the CMSA around 2007, when Khan has already left Hill service and was working in the Bush administration. Like other Congressional staffer organizations, the CMSA does not receive any funding or support from the government; rather the status permits it to use space and provides a structure for leadership…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…blished an op-ed in which he claimed the anti-trans op-ed was wrong, but still frames the debate over trans rights as legitimate political discourse. He calls it a “prelude to a debate that we will conduct broadly and openly.” Meanwhile, he adopts the anti-trans talking points of the original article on his LinkedIn page to call on the CDU and FDP (Germany’s Christian conservative and liberal/libertarian parties) “to fight for the reform of ARD an…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…side with one eye on the only audience that really matters—the fans beyond number who will one day venerate him, a radical apocalyptic prophet born sometime around 4 BCE, as a god. “I know that one day a big artist is going to get killed onstage, and I know that we’re going to go very big,” Bowie told an interviewer, in 1974. “And I keep thinking: it’s bound to be me. Go out on me first tour, get done in at me first gig, an’ nobody will ever see m…