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On Guns and Religious Liberty, Ben Carson “Not an Authentic Adventist”

By Sarah Posner

…latter is faithful witness to God’s government and coming kingdom, not to promote the might of worldly empires. That would appear to be a religious worldview that would alarm some of Carson’s biggest fans. Hines hopes that Carson isn’t asked on the national stage to explain Adventist eschatology, which portrays the American government as one that will eventually, in league with the Catholic Church, persecute Adventists for their observance of the…

Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…obert Jeffress, who just a year ago endorsed Rick Perry over Romney in the Republican Primary, and called Mormonism a cult, is now telling pastors in Florida—even though he still thinks Mormonism is a cult—that “It’s time to stand up and push back against all the evil in our country.” He suggested that failing to go out to vote for Romney would be like being a pastor in Germany in the 1930s and failing to try to stop the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Char…

Will This Relic Change Our Whole View of Early American History?

By Ed Simon

…ness as being a “city upon a hill,” to current debates, Protestantism is a central feature in most conceptions of America. The recent archeological discovery at Jamestown Virginia would seem to complicate that popular view. Archer, along with several others whose bodies were recently recovered, were among the first English settlers who came to America during an era the poet John Donne described in a sermon to the Virginia Company in London as mark…

In Marriage Decision, An Ode to Love and Four Provocations

By Sarah Posner

…though, refuse to acknowledge that the Constitution can both guarantee the Free Exercise rights of opponents of same-sex marriage and the Equal Protection rights of same-sex couples. Taken together, the four dissenting opinions will fuel ongoing grievances about “judicial tyranny” forcing opponents of same-sex marriage into, as Alito put it, a “new orthodoxy” which will strip them of their religious rights. Roberts ominously predicted religious ob…

Mike Huckabee, meet Amy Schumer. And, for that matter, Tony Orlando.

By Sarah Posner

…fs of certain employers. Last year he blamed “Uncle Sugar” for handing out free contraceptives to women who “cannot control their libido or their reproductive system.” Huckabee announced his anachronistic candidacy just as a video about access to contraception–and religious efforts to block it–has gone viral. In this Comedy Central send-up, a satirical birth control pill commercial, comedian Amy Schumer tries to get a one-month prescription filled…

Jews Violate Their Own Beliefs, Conservative Christians Say

By Evan Derkacz

…er points out), is this: In recent days we have heard claims that a belief central to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—that we are created male and female, and that marriage unites these two basic expressions of humanity in a unique covenant—amounts to a form of bigotry. Gee, thank you boys. Thank you for letting me, a Jew, know that I (along with all of Reform and Conservative Judaism, the two largest denominations by a landslide) am violating a…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…onomies are better. As it turns out, no, they are much worse. I’d consider central economic planning a form of hubris. However, there have also been many charges of hubris directed at people who ended up making valuable progress. “If God had meant man to fly, He’d have given him wings.” I think transhumanism contains both elements: there will be real progress that, in retrospect, won’t look like hubris. Few will complain if medical nanobots cure c…

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”

By Ed Simon

…26th the Guardian reported that “Islamic State militants ransacked Mosul’s central museum, destroying priceless artefacts that are thousands of years old, in the group’s latest rampage…” As is the case in the Guardian‘s coverage, the story is often accompanied by Islamic State video showing black-clad, bearded extremists taking power tools to ancient Assyrian and Akkadian statues. We watch in horror as ancient statues of massive winged bulls have…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…m scripture (and I’m not the only one who has concluded this) is that very central to God’s purposes in marriage is to give people a means of grace to help them grow into the image of Jesus’ self-giving love. Marriage is this arena where we can totally give ourselves to another person in body, spirit, and life and commitment and grow in that total gift of self which winds up being an image of Jesus’ total gift of himself for us. Critics say that m…

If Modesto’s Public Schools Can Teach World Religions, It Can Happen Anywhere

By Jonathan Homrighausen

…spent much of my childhood and early adult life in Modesto, a city in the Central Valley, aka the “Bible Belt” of California. So Joseph Laycock’s recent article in Religion Dispatches profiling that course and interviewing Sherry McIntyre, one of its teachers, hit me on a more personal level. I took Sherry’s world religions and world geography course as a freshman in high school a decade ago. What Laycock’s piece didn’t capture is just how conser…