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Tropical Storm Isaac Bears Down on RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…gn from God? That’s what the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank cheekily suggested yesterday, stringing together the bad forecast with Missouri Representative Todd Akins’s atrocious comments on “legitimate rape” and the public relations disaster of that sort of blasphemous Republican skinny-dip in the Sea of Galillee—yes, the place where Jesus walked on water. But there’s another way to look at this. Everyone knows that crises are opportunities. And…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…istory. We know that our nation, our communities, and our lives are made vastly stronger and richer by faith and the countless acts of justice and mercy it inspires.” God, it turns out, has already been quite welcome in Charlotte, from opening and closing prayers to references in several speakers’ remarks. But that is not enough for the word-counters at Fox News, who demand to know why the number of uses of “God” has dropped. In response, Sen. Dic…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…nce to rescue millions from anti-Christian indoctrination,” which dominionist Christians absurdly believe happens in public schools. Some conservative Christians, however, are exercising more caution and exhibiting awareness that Christians visibly behaving badly in the face of the pandemic could do lasting damage to the reputation of the faith. Citing a Lifeway study, Daniel Silliman reports for Christianity Today that only 7% of Protestant churc…

Christian Responses to COVID-19 Raise Old Religion v. Science Questions

By Chrissy Stroop

…non-believers and progressive believers around shared values. Anti-pluralist Christians are far more often the targets of my ire than anti-pluralist atheists, but the latter’s implacable insistence on the impossibility of progressive religion, and on the fundamental incompatibility of religion and science, is an endless annoyance and a hindrance to building broad progressive coalitions. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, however, Christian…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…the Bible for support and guidance during a tumultuous off-season that included sexual assault allegations and a six-game suspension for this season. Former Dallas Cowboy lineman Duke Preston left football altogether to work in Christian ministry. In baseball, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Garza exchanged theological reflections about God’s interest in the majors with Orioles hitter Luke Scott. Does anyone else pick up on a Catholic-Protestant under…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…ies have crept inside and have run amok inside the church—and the church must stand.” Striking a militant tone, Mathews insists “this is a war meeting…this is gonna get dirty, belly to belly, bayonets fixed—and we need to stand and get our hands dirty to fight this fight.” To close the evening, Perkins introduces Oklahoma Senator James Lankford as a “champion for conservatives who cherish their faith, family and freedom.” Lankford outlines his dec…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…ment that it should be privatized. (His failed prognostications on the robustness of the stock market should’ve put a big pin in that trial balloon.) And if you read the Austrian school economists and bloggers at the Von Mises Institute, you will find the inapt analogy deployed frequently as well. While not comparing Social Security to a Ponzi scheme, Bachmann has compared public employee benefit plans and employer-sponsored pensions to such a cri…

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…a good old fashioned book, there’s Esteban Morales Dominguez and Gary Prevost’s United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), in which the Cuban intellectual and St. John’s University/College of St. Benedict professor write, of the group that Jeb Bush recently met with: The [US-Cuba Democracy] PAC has raised about $750,000 since it opened its doors, and according to the Center for Responsible Politics, has given $…

New for Democrats: Non-Personhood for the Non-Rich

By Peter Laarman

…le. In order to torture people, in order to cause them certain pain, you must first obliterate their humanity: you must excise from your consciousness the idea that you have anything in common with them, that you are flesh of their flesh (to use religious language). I believe that is what leading Democrats are now doing. This is more than split consciousness; it’s a new kind of consciousness in which all that matters is the flourishing of their so…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…is studies at Florida Bible Institute, Graham was ordained a Southern Baptist minister. Feeling he needed still more education, however, he enrolled at Wheaton College in the western suburbs of Chicago. There he met, and eventually married, Ruth McCue Bell, daughter of missionaries to China, who had initially resisted the advances of the young preacher because he did not aspire to be a missionary. By the time he graduated from Wheaton College in 1…