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Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…fashioned from plywood and cardboard. Three students clad in green Chinese military uniforms manned the tank on all sides, batons in hand, ready to strike two students seated in the vehicle’s path. Their victims, dressed as handcuffed Tibetan Buddhist monks, were covered in fake blood and held a poster-sized photo of the Dalai Lama. A few feet away, a redheaded man dressed as a soldier chased another faux monk. As the red-robed monk fell to the gr…

Obama’s Pastor and the Politics of Patriotic Treason

By Jonathan L. Walton

…to point the finger at corporate controlled government, a neo-conservative military agenda, and the capricious whims of an exit-poll obsessed administration. And this is what Dr. Wright has attempted to do on a consistent basis over the course of his thirty-six years as pastor. Unlike his conservative opposition, his critique of American society points up as his hand of compassion and justice reaches down. Now one could still argue that Wright’s m…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…erial prosperity to all believers who have enough faith,” with even higher numbers of Pentecostals and charismatic Christians agreeing with that statement. Go to any Word of Faith church, tune in to TBN, or read reams of books written by Word of Faith evangelists, and you will find the movement’s trademark selective literalism of both the Old and New Testaments, picking out verses that seem—regardless of hermeneutics demonstrating otherwise—to rei…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…w others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates that every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires member…

Gimme That Old Spice Religion

By Frederick Clarkson

…, and inexplicably accompanied by two armed Sudanese “freedom fighters” in military garb. “The photo was taken,” Jennifer writes, “in the upper Nile. My husband, cool as a cucumber in the 120-degree heat, demonstrates that it is possible to be well-dressed even in the far reaches of Africa.” RD contributor Kathryn Joyce, author of the forthcoming Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Beacon Press, March 2009), calls it “pretty savv…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…nor [of Texas in 1994] his partying, his womanizing, and in particular his military service problems—posed a serious threat to his presidential ambitions. Their solution was to wipe the slate clean—through religious transformation.” A Tale of Two Conversions For this to work they needed “a credible conversion experience and a presentable spiritual guide.” And so the legend goes that none other than Billy Graham paid a visit to his longtime friends…

Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…eli Army. As resentment against Haredi exemptions from Israel’s compulsory military service has fueled resentment again the Ultra-Orthodox, this sharing of the conscription burden has done quite a bit to lessen that resentment. But the Barzilai affair again painted Haredim as anti-modern and reactionary. Those Haredi groups that have Web sites (and there are quite a few) are now calling on their rabbis to go against Litzman’s demands. Last week’s…

Christians to Conservative Conference: Gays, No! Birchers, Yes!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ans demand that CPAC ditch the group that wants equality for a group of human beings – American taxpaying citizens – commonly known as gays and lesbians in marriage, housing, employment and the military – but has no problem with a group that opposes fluoride in the water, school integration, the United Nations, and Nelson Mandela. We report, you decide….

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…ra Frale), until 1354 the Shroud was safeguarded by the Knights Templar, a military order that was popular and well supported within the Church, even if they were occasionally accused of idolatry and sodomy. Dr. Frale’s document may explain such allegations. She writes of a young French Templar, Arnaut Sabbatier, who joined the order in 1297 after undertaking a ritual in which he was instructed to kiss “a long linen cloth on which was impressed th…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…situation (hamatzav, or the situation in Hebrew) enmeshed in political and military consideration. The excacerbation of Jewish-Christian tensions, on the other hand, seems like a problem that ordinary citizens can address—and some Christians and Jews are doing just that. The forum’s most impressive speaker, Armenian Bishop Shirvanian, is the designated leader of the procession from the Armenian monastery to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Perhap…