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A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…ght up in the clouds. Harold Camping, the octogenarian whose nightly Bible call-in show fomented doomsday mania, suffered a stroke soon afterward and mostly disappeared from sight. The press coverage, which had been intense in the weeks leading up to May 21, 2011, dwindled to nothing. The story, as far as most people were concerned, was over. But I wanted to know what happens next. If you’re absolutely sure the world is going to end on a specific…

Has Sojourners Really Changed its Policy on
Gay Ads?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nce in the ads is significant. The Believe Out Loud ad was rejected specifically because it did not meet Sojourners’ stated mission to focus on “matters of poverty, racial justice, stewardship of the creation, and the defense of life and peace.” Instead, it focused on accepting LGBT people into the church — which is something leading evangelical leader Shane Claiborne has said isn’t an issue his fellows are willing to “die on the hill for.” As Jam…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…the Texas border. The two had no visas, but immediately applied for political asylum at the border and were taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They fled India because they were afraid of violence. They imagined the U.S. to be a welcoming country. Unfortunately, they were detained as soon as they arrived,” Clement Lee, a staff attorney with Immigration Equality, told India-West…. Lee predicted that the Supreme Court decision was “the…

Our Economic Theocracy

By Sarah Posner

…e religious right, and its doppelganger the Tea Party, is now clear: political responses to our economic and fiscal crises are being controlled by the extreme wing of a party that prioritizes praying over policy. Yesterday’s opening prayer at the Capitol was delivered by one Rev. Rick Postell of Brunswick, Georgia, the guest chaplain sponsored by Georgia Republican Jack Kingston, a backer of the Boehner plan rejected by House Tea Partiers. Postell…

Jesus v. Religion Rap-Off

By Joseph Laycock

…Jesus. While fans embrace this sentiment of “Jesus, not religion” as a radical Christian message, it is actually a form of polemic as old as the Protestant Reformation. Protestant culture has long employed vaguely defined categories to subordinate other people’s religion. Labels such as “superstition” and “cult” have long been used to exclude certain traditions from what the Scottish Common Sense philosophers called “true religion.” This cultural…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…ing sex—among married heterosexual couples—they are trying to distance themselves from the prudish attitudes commonly associated with conservative Christians and working to reach a generation of hip, culturally savvy, young evangelicals. (Although as a recent Religion News Service report indicates, more direct sex talk is a growing trend even among traditional evangelicals.) For the middle-aged Youngs—married 30 years and parents of four, image-ob…

Booing Gay Soldiers and Expressing Faith in the Public Square

By Sarah Posner

…have been talked about almost as much as the candidates’ performances themselves. Last night, the audience booed a gay soldier who asked, via YouTube, whether the candidates would seek to reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Offering his version of an answer, Rick Santorum not only made clear that he thinks that no one in the military should have sex, but that the end of DADT meant that “we are going to recognize a group of people and give them a spec…

Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…well-known left-wing blog, dug up a sermon from the 1990s in which Giglio calls homosexuality a sin, worries that same-sex marriage will undermine society, and insists that only a sensitive guy with long hair named Jesus can turn gays straight. An outcry ensued and Giglio withdrew from the ceremony. As political debacles go, this was junior varsity stuff—“over in a flash,” as Sarah Posner put it here on RD. In the Christian media, though, it had…

This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

In the American ritual calendar, two days celebrate those who’ve served in the armed forces. Memorial Day is poignant, set at the end of May in the context of life’s seasonal burgeoning—flowers, birdsong, sunshine, and backyard barbecues—but dedicated to the memory of those who’ve died in service to the nation. Veterans Day is the less mournful of the two. Known as Armistice Day in much of the world—as it was in America until 1954—it commemorates…

Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…book, When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (University of California Press). Often, I have found, they erode from within. They can vanish as quickly as they emerged. The QAnon conspiracy and the extremist movements related to it are like summer storms. They boil up from the hot air with fierce intensity. Just as quickly, they can disappear, with only lingering gusts and gales to remind us of the turmoil they’ve left behind. Summer…