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The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…unty and founded the Forerunner House of Prayer. Mike Bickle, who played a central preaching role at The Response in Houston, has preached at Engle’s Call events alongside national figures like Mike Huckabee and the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins. On the National Mall in 2008, Bickle made clear his end-times beliefs: “God wants to build a global house of prayer before Jesus returns.” He maintains his prayer movement, led by self-anointed p…

Who’s to Blame for BP?

By David True

…st revenue occupy much of the news, the question of responsibility remains central. And who is responsible? Who is to blame? Unfortunately, the two most popular interpretations offer little help. They do, however, provide useful illustrations of the kind of thinking that helped create the crisis in the first place and they also suggest a deeper interpretation in light of faith in God. The first interpretation I will call a version of the ‘Great Ma…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…“truth” is thus everywhere assailed, but we still demand that it remain a central category (if not for politics as such, then for our affective experience of the political). This partly explains the zeal for evidence, for observability and substance. But when “religion” enters the swirling tide of words and allegations, it complicates things. On the one hand, “religion” has played a role in two hidebound discourses: we must use it to steer the sh…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…e administration now has a problem of having fallen on the wrong side of a central image of American civil religion. Ronald Reagan called her “everybody’s gal.” In wartimes she’s carried a sword, placed an urgent phone call for financial help, and even scolded her citizenry. As a mascot for our country, she’s been given the face of a skull on the streets of Tehran and been beheaded by Trump in a famous Der Spiegel cover from earlier this year. In…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…krit, Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The central column and capstone are also equipped with holes, astronomically aligned so that the Guidestones can serve as a compass and clock. The popular consensus is that these stones were meant to survive a global apocalypse and aid survivors in creating a new, enlightened society. Unveiled in 1980, and built by an unknown party, the monument has stood for nearly thirty year…

Muslim Beard Decision was a Boost for “Religious Liberty” Advocates

By Kara Loewentheil

…ial. Please note, I’m not arguing about whether or not having a beard is a central element of Islam. And I realize that the free exercise in question need not be “central” to any religion for it to qualify for RFRA or RLUIPA protection, under current jurisprudence. What I’m trying to highlight is the erasure of a distinction between a plaintiff’s sincere belief (which is a question of fact, whether or not a court chooses to investigate it) and the…

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

By Sarah Posner

…on,” said Carpenter, for Adventists to affiliate with the Tea Party. While central to religious right activism, abortion has not been a “wedge issue” for Adventists, said Carpenter. That issue, along with guns and religious liberty, are “three things that would create wedges between him and his base and make him choose between his faith and his politics,” he added. In a 2014 review of Carson’s book, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s…

No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills That Nobody’s Talking About

By Andrew L. Seidel

…gan, partially funded by Betsy Devos’s fortune. Betsy Devos and her family promoted vouchers and school choice “to help advance God’s Kingdom,” as she told “The Gathering,” the annual meeting of the country’s richest Christians. But also because, “The church—which ought to be in our view far more central to the life of the community—has been displaced by the public school as the center for activity.” It’s not enough that Americans have a right to…

The Polite Islamophobia of the Intellectual

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ne of the French authors, however, nor Pipes, hone in on the three figures central to Caldwell’s—and later Berman’s—diatribe against Islam: Sarkozy (the catalyst), Ramadan (the villain) and Hirsi Ali (the heroine). It is Caldwell too who asks the question central to Berman’s entire exposé: Since Ramadan is the most broadly listened to contemporary explainer—to both Muslims and non-Muslims—of Islam’s most troubling doctrines, it is important to fig…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…both funny and terribly sad at the same time to watch her rush through the central story of Christianity with a scowl, as if she would quite literally rather be in the briefing room being grilled by CNN’s Jim Acosta But of course Sanders, like the rest of the Trump administration, cares nothing about Christianity, or its central Easter story of atonement, humiliation, resurrection, and hope. For her and for Trump, even a benign and “timeless” trad…