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This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…ospel truth. The network continued to expand throughout the 20th century, particularly as enterprising evangelical leaders invested in radio and television networks. Founders of these radio and television empires often parlayed the income they received into building yet more evangelical institutions. Charles Fuller’s West Coast radio empire eventually allowed him to fund the formation of Fuller Theological Seminary, while Jerry Falwell’s success i…

Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth, placed the concept of “spiritual warfare” in the center of Christian experience (which, I argue in Satan in America, actually forms a central theme in the American religious experience). Angels, portrayed as warriors fighting beside evangelical Christians, became a hugely popular representation of spiritual life. Billy Graham’s 1975 Angels: God’s Secret Agents increased this fascination with angels, demons,…

How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months

By Hollis Phelps

…t was all a stunt, it may have not been a very good one, at least in the near term. He apparently hasn’t immediately profited from it. Bell’s decision caused him to lose jobs counseling students and teaching part time at Fuller Theological Seminary and Azusa Pacific University, and so by his own admission he’s “only lost money and earning potential” during the year. A decent book contract might promise to make up for lost capital, but he doesn’t h…

Does Traditional Christian Marriage Just Mean “Not Gay”?

By Daniel Silliman

…cluding works by Timothy Keller, Emmerson Eggerich, James Dobson, William Harley, and Gary Chapman, as well as a CD recording of two sermons on marriages. The wedding chapel is not rejecting people for ignoring those advice guides, though, or for asking for a ceremony free of Bible verses and prayers. It seems likely that if they did, some straight couples wouldn’t qualify for marriage at the Hitching Post. At the same time, the 15 same-sex couple…

Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

By Marcia Pally

…“persuade” even Republicans trained under the great strategists-cum-strong-armers, Karl Rove, Paul Weyrich, and Ralph Reed. And to do that, they need someone who can wield power. The last Democratic king of clout was Lyndon Johnson. Twenty-four years in Congress and knowing where all the skeletons were buried gave his famous “Johnson treatment” that unfakable menace. He is purported to have said that he didn’t trust a man unless he had the man’s p…

Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…eorgia, a group of Catholic activists who had forced their way onto a nuclear submarine base are offering the same defense, saying that Catholic doctrine opposes the use of nuclear weapons and that they were bound in faith to protest. (Disclosure: A faculty colleague of mine in Fordham University’s theology department testified for these defendants as an expert witness.) What’s next? So where is our national debate on religious freedom heading? It…

Federal Court Overturns California’s Prop. 8

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…om protesting their very existence; it is like opposing the election of a particular governor on the ground that students would learn about his holding office, or opposing the legitimation of no-fault divorce because a teacher might allude to the fact if a course in societal structure were taught to graduating seniors. The prospect of children learning about the laws of the State and society’s assessment of the legal rights of its members does not…

Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…hristian perfectionism gone badly wrong. It owes its existence and the primary arc of its history to an ambitious enterprise called the American Colonization Society. A pivotal early figure was an energetic Congregationalist named Samuel John Mills. Mills was a prime mover in the creation of the American Bible Society in 1816 and also in the formation of the Colonization Society the following year. In 1818 Mills made sail for Africa to spy out the…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…le, an all-too-vivid reminder of how women in general and Earth in particular are treated. So much for pro-life claims. The institutional Roman Catholic Church has created these problems for itself over long centuries of misogyny and resistance to recent decades of good faith efforts to open the ranks of ministry and decision-making to all. Alas, the shortsightedness of patriarchs who fear the loss of their power, the revelation of their corruptio…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…there is only one monster in this circus: Israel. Palestinians and Israeli Arabs are hapless victims of a larger-than-life predator. The fact that Goliath is one-sided isn’t really the problem. Most books about the Israel/Palestine conflict are biased, and even the fact that Blumenthal seems to have only a cursory understanding of the larger historical context of the events he writes about is also not the problem. The basic problem with Goliath is…