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‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Episode 3 Recap: What is Genuine?

By Benjamin E. Park

…circle around questions of authenticity and duplicity. The religion at the center of it, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, puts a premium on the certainty of knowledge; the mediums for Hofmann’s deception, antiquitous documents, are supposed to provide finality to historical questions. Hofmann took pleasure in destabilizing both. “He fooled me every single day,” his ex-wife, Dorie Olds, confesses. But what does it mean that so many…

Going Negative: Traditionalist Churches Gang Up on ‘Progressive Christianity’ in Arizona

By Daniel Schultz

…l Christian numbers are dropping. If those leaving the faith come from the center of the faith, it will leave American Christianity “more sharply defined,” Stetzer argues, along both ends of the spectrum. That in turn probably means we’re in for more contentiousness as the two sides duke it out to define the faith. I’m not a proponent of Progressive Christianity myself. But even as a relatively traditional churchman, I find this story distressing….

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…e: comix artist Robert Crumb onstage at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, headlining the Jewish Book Fest at its sold-out opening event. Basically it was the usual Jewish Bay Area crowd, coming out in droves for Crumb, who had apparently become an honorary member of the tribe by illustrating that tribal book of ours, Genesis; no doubt a few of them were just now being introduced to Crumb, through his freshly-minted biblical pedigree. But…

When Churches Do Business

By Sarah Posner

…ge, which had been used for years by a church-affiliated nonprofit retreat center, because the couple might host same-sex weddings there. Fairbanks and Beret, who wanted to operate the property as an inn that would hold weddings and other big events, contend the diocese accepted their initial offer in spring 2012, but eventually cut off negotiations. The diocese’s real estate agent accidentally forwarded the couple an e-mail in which a diocesan of…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…ces of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel and the Jerusalem Center for Christian-Jewish Relations. These spitting assaults have been going on for at least a decade, and like many expressions of tension in Jerusalem, the attacks represent scores that many observers thought were settled long ago. For spitting at crosses and clerics was not unknown in those parts of Christian Europe where Jews and Judaism were often persecuted and whe…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…s “changing and growing more diffuse, even as it remains a potent force in American politics.” While some of the picks seem obvious (Marjorie Dannenfelser of the anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List, or Jim Daly, the new head of Focus on the Family, or Robert George mastermind of the Manhattan Declaration) legal scholar Melissa Rogers is most decidedly not a member of the Christian right. Rogers, who has worked for the pro-church-state-separati…

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…largely seen by a mostly male commentariat as a harbinger of doom for the American way of life. On Fox News, Lou Dobbs moderated a discussion about the dire consequences of this shift in family dynamics and gender relations. Commentator Juan Williams lamented that “something [is] going terribly wrong in American society.” Blogger Erick Erickson went further, claiming, “When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and f…

Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…to $2 trillion spike in the deficit, will be used to further reduce public services and safety net benefits in the usual pincers-like operation. I could go on, but you already get the point: as with Obamacare repeal, what unites Trump, McConnell, and Ryan on the subject of tax “reform” amounts to a vast tissue of lies. Cruel lies, when you consider the new economic violence against the weakest and most vulnerable that they portend. What is actuall…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…largely spared the generational ruptures that cast Christian-raised white Americans into the “None” category. Because rap never divested from its origins in the prophetic witness of the black church, it’s not surprising that rap and hip hop have been the home base for some of the most explicitly Christian content in music for some time. As is often the case, Kanye West was leaps and bounds ahead of his time when he released “Jesus Walks” on 2004’…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…i-“new world order” activism earned him a spot in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Meet the ‘Patriots’” report this summer, profiling 35 anti-government “Patriots” who are leading a “resurgent movement.” Although Baldwin remains unequivocally dedicated to the religious right’s core issues — opposition to abortion and LGBT rights — he told me that he’s undergone an evolution since his Moral Majority days. If we don’t return to what Baldwin calls…