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When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part II

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…under the influence of a Leviathan demonic spirit that lies and twists the news and people’s words. Indeed, sometimes the media also give them reasons to be distrustful. We hope that these further clarifications (and decoding of insider jargon) will help. What is an Apostle? First, it’s important to underscore that the leading office of the NAR, the apostle, is not at all analogous to such common Christian church offices as bishops or deacons. NAR…

AIDS Progress is Paradoxical

By Susan Henking

…ally and locally? Wedding Bells and Decriminalization And yet, not all the news is depressing. Not even all the news at the intersection of AIDS/HIV and religion is depressing. American governments and courts are hard at work legalizing same-sex marriage which, despite the cynic in me that thinks marriage equality involves joining the conservatives in valuing a very limited form of family, is still a move toward inclusion for some. And, meanwhile,…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…play Act: “An act providing for display of the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” in public buildings and on license plates.” Civic Literacy Act: “An act providing for instruction in the content and meaning of the documents that form the foundation of our country’s Constitutional Republic.” Requires school boards to teach selected founding documents and to allow the posting of others in secondary schools. Religion in Legal History Act: “Endorses a…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…il partnerships. Putin administration officials are reportedly backing a new bill that would create a national database with fingerprint information for people with infectious diseases like HIV. The rules would apply to Russians and to foreigners visiting the country. In Buzzfeed, Susie Armitage reports on the growing number of LGBT Russians seeking asylum in the U.S….

Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…cho-“misfit” thesis. These young, under-employed Chechen immigrants never truly felt like “real Americans.” Like the Columbine shooters, one cable news commentator argued Friday morning amid the city lockdown, they seemed like normal young men on the outside, but on the inside, they were volcanoes of psychological instability, seething with the indignities they have suffered from society. Same Old Double-bind We can be confident that commentators…

How to Talk to a Trump Evangelical at Christmas

By Stephen Mucher

…and exaggeration, ensures you won’t get far pinning down “the real Donald Trump” at post-truth holiday gatherings. 4. Don’t discuss Trump voters. Some readers will object that I put too many evangelicals in the same basket of deplorables. If so, they have a valid point. Voters cast ballots for a wide variety of reasons, including frustrations about economic fairness and national belonging that deserve compassion. You should concede this point too…

The Democrats, The Gays, And The Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…an example of the sort of religious thing the White House cares about, One News Now, the (notoriously slanted) “news” service of the American Family Association reported just before the election that White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Director Joshua DuBois reached out to David Jeremiah, a California megachurch pastor who declared in an AFA news story that Obama “is a dangerous person” because he’s moving the country t…

CNN’s Disastrous ‘Town Hall’ with Trump Put the Country at Risk

By Robert P. Jones

…tol Police Department’s calls for assistance after their officers were overrun by Trump’s mob. As a result of my efforts that day I was severely beaten, struck numerous times with a taser, and suffered a heart attack as well as a traumatic brain injury. One police officer died, and several others took their own lives in the wake of that barbaric day. It is not just that Trump’s lies and political rhetoric sparked an uprising at our nation’s Capito…

More Religion in Politics? New Poll’s Findings May Be Overhyped

By Diane Winston

…ick scan of national newspapers shows many religious and moral concerns in today’s news mix: declining marriage rates, civil disobedience, climate change, racial justice in Ferguson and stopping ISIS at the border—just to name a few. But since most of these issues were also in the news the day before the new Pew survey (and the day before that and the day before that too) it’s hard to see the 300+ articles—proclaiming everything from “Americans fe…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…oes not necessariily mean evangelical. You know that. You read RD.) To be truly diverse, does a newsroom need a variety of religions, and a variety of views within those religions? Seems like an impossible, fraught task. How would you determine which religions had historically been excluded, as is more clearly the case with gender and race? How could you possibly define optimal religious diversity, and what would that look like, and how could you…