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“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…of Christ, and Jesus is the bridegroom,” said Tombley, who was passing out business cards advertising a House of Prayer, unaffiliated with Engle, in Newport News, Virginia. “In Jewish culture, you had to spend a year or more in your father’s house before you could actually get married… So God will send back Jesus to get his bride as in Jewish custom, as Jews, as Hebrews did for thousands of years, that custom was the tradition that God is working…

Joe the Plumber: Horatio Alger with Plumber’s Crack

By Jonathan L. Walton

…message that Senator Obama’s tax plan will unduly punish successful small businesses. Of course we know that the character known to millions as Joe the Plumber is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the Ohio resident who engaged Senator Obama on his tax plan earlier this month. Since then, in part due to Senator Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment, Senator McCain has sought to use the exchange to assert unreasonably that Obama’s plan is socialist. But in the…

Michael Jackson, Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…get us. [/sarcasm] —- OK, now that I’ve got the Islamophobe’s rant out of the way, here’s my real take on Jackson’s conversion: Who cares? He’s a dated, washed-up recluse who is no longer musically important and is culturally relevant only amongst comics. What he chooses as his faith is his business. Global Voices does a good round-up, as always, of what the world is saying on the topic, and to be honest, all the good stuff was taken. Read them….

So Deep a Wound: Home, and the novels of Marilynne Robinson

By Garret Keizer

…I an atheist friend who asked, “Can you tell me please what this religion business is all about, not as some metaphysical hypothesis or historical phenomenon, but what it really means to be religious?” I might hand him or her a copy of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead. “Read this,” I’d say, “and it will give you a pretty good idea.” And had I a religious friend, a co-religionist friend, who asked, “Can you tell me please what’s wrong with us, no…

The Untold Story of The Greatest Yiddish Poet in America

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…c, well, one might say that all hell breaks loose. But it’s deadly serious business, and it’s to Manseau’s credit that he doesn’t flinch from it, but allows himself to stare deeply into the site of Jewish Christophobia. If Clara’s reactions appear comical and histrionic, they serve as counterpoint to the all-too-real fears of Malpesh, whose life is pockmarked by the traumas of anti-Jewish violence. (Even the brave Sasha Bimko, who spends her last…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…udi Royal Family: Baker details the Bush family’s personal, political, and business connections to the Saudi royal family; and to apparent international slush funds and money-laundering schemes. Much of this is told in such a matter-of-fact fashion that it is easy to lose sight of the significance of many of the individual facts. Read more here. The layers of secrecy were peeled back on a need-to-know basis over time. Unbeknownst to Wead, for exam…

Cardinal Warns Women Against Marrying Muslims: Would Bring “A Pile of Trouble”

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…edominately Muslim countries. While the fact that women heads of state and business magnates don’t cancel out violence that women and girls face in the same countries, it degrades the dignity of Muslim women to be a warning to non-Muslim women: “Don’t marry a Muslim man, you’ll end up like them.” (cue scary music) It’s also a blow to interreligious and interracial marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims that have worked. I’m not saying bad thing…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…the institutional church has only the power we give it. They go about the business of ministry and service with skill and good grace. Increasingly, Buddhist women have been seeking full ordination within the various branches of Buddhism. In Korea, Taiwan, and China, Buddhist nuns have been fully ordained for centuries, in an unbroken lineage back to the Buddha. In other countries and branches of Buddhism, the practice of fully ordaining women has…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…s of weekly attacks and casualties, averaging 2,000 attacks per month. The numbers then dropped dramatically as ethnic cleansing was completed in many areas, the “surge” of U.S. forces restricted the flow of explosives into Baghdad, the Mahdi Army suspended its attacks, and the U.S. co-opted Sunni insurgents. But violence has spiked again recently; it’s a perilous business to depend on buying off the opposition; and most importantly, the fundament…

Religious Right Very Much Alive in Tomorrow’s Elections

By Sarah Posner

…prohibitive regulations on abortion clinics designed to drive them out of business. He opposed a bill that stated that contraception is not abortion. Cuccinelli’s culture war coup de grace, though, was this gem: “My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. … They don’t comport with nat…