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What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe? Easter Reflections from a Non-Christian

By Gary Laderman

…he Christians believe? We are witnessing what could be one of the most destructive scandals ever in the Catholic Church. A flurry of reports and allegations have been in the news recently of institutional authorities covering up or taking lightly charges against priests who have taken a vow of celibacy and are accused of sexually abusing children and misusing their power. Although it is not yet clear how Pope Benedict XVI will deal with these char…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng and deepening the conversation on existential meaning-making in America today—the worthy core of Jacoby’s piece, as I read it—need not proceed by overwriting the perspectives and experiences of others who are quite likely, the available data tells us, to have very different outlooks. It is important, however, that we consider religious and nonreligious experience today in light of an emerging philosophical and practical in-between pointed to by…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…stian Zionism is an impediment toward peace in the Middle East.” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has reported that about 20 to 40 million Americans are Christian Zionists. “I would say the whole flier seems to me to be describing a stereotype of a Christian Zionist,” Brog said. “There are some Christian Zionists who are opposed to the peace process in the Middle East, but that does not define a movement of millions of Christian people.”…

Catholic News We Missed Last Week While Stalking the Pope

By Mary E. Hunt

…to John’s husband, Charles Chiarelli, and expressed his sympathy to the thousands of members of DignityUSA of which John was a longtime collaborator, to interfaith groups where John was beloved, and to the Sunshine Cathedral Metropolitan Community Church in Florida where John and Charles worshipped. In my dreams. Alas, not even in the blog attached to the Jesuit magazine America has there been a peep about one of their own. Perhaps such Jesuit mat…

To Fox News I’m Still a Jihadist

By Haroon Moghul

Monday night, I was a guest on The Kelly File, for a one-hour special on Islam called “Defying the Sword.” (Not followed by the unreleased documentary, “Begging the Question.”) And why? My Religion Dispatches review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs A Reformation Now, that’s why. Host Megyn Kelly moderated the discussion. I went on because I think Ayaan’s book is self-defeating. First, because of Ayaan’s reputation in the Muslim…

Josh Duggar Arrest For Child Sexual Abuse Material is Part of a Systemic Problem in Evangelicalism

By Chrissy Stroop

…ses are not addressed and evangelicalism does not reform. On April 28, the news broke that Darnell Barrett would be the latest American pastor to resign from his position in the charismatic Australia-based, celebrity-friendly, and scandal-plagued megachurch conglomerate Hillsong, amid revelations of “infidelity” and of the unsolicited sharing of explicit photos with women. Hillsong’s long record of misconduct starts with its founder, Brian Houston…

The Islamophobia Industrial Complex

By Sarah Posner

…attitudes towards Islam and the upcoming Peter King hearings, ran some more specific numbers for me, and reports: “Evangelicals are significantly more likely than the general population and than other religious groups to say they most trust Fox News. More than 4-in-10 (41%) Evangelicals say they most trust Fox News, compared to 20% of Mainline Protestants, 21% of minority Christians, 29% of white Catholics, and 22% of the unaffiliated. The [gener…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…ing days we have some meaningful, productive conversations about crazy guys and guns. Really, all I hope to do here is to encourage that. To say to everyone out there, “R U watching the news?” And to make the awful, but true words to that Christmas song ring ceaselessly in your heart: “Tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.”…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…left that’s at fault. For several decades, the legacy media has conflated news about American religion with news about the Religious Right. And even when the media does write about religious moderates, it’s usually on denominational in-fighting over key issues on the right’s agenda (gay marriage, ordination of women and gays, and abortion). The disparity between what’s deemed newsworthy and what’s not would be comical, if it weren’t for the news…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…so dear.” I’m sorry, that’s just not the language an evangelical marriage crusader would use. They would use terms like “sanctity” and “traditional marriage” and “God’s design” and all that. Not that mushy “values we hold so dear.” It’s not just values we hold so dear — it’s God’s command, God’s plan, God’s design for men, women and the family. (Have the Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government read anything Vander Plaats has written?) Of course…