Religion Dispatches
…unelectable; thus rescuing Democrats from what otherwise promises to be a very bad year. But no one anticipated the Rally to Restore Sanity or the March to Keep Fear Alive. Could the Comedy Central Duo make a difference? While the tea party crowd is overwhelmingly middle-aged the Stewart-Colbert fans are those younger potential voters considered crucial in the 2008 Presidential election. The dueling rallies, just days before the election, will a…
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…ages that promise to change our world in the blink of an eye. We want black-and-white answers to complicated questions about life, reality, and nature—things that can’t always be described in a Twitter-friendly 140 characters or less. These questions about life and reality are often the same questions that sit at the heart of the so-called wars between religion and science, depicted in the media as two opposing sides in an endless battle. It’s as…
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…ind Azerbaijan on a map. Fast forward a couple centuries, and there’s a not-so-indirect link between the Book of Genesis, the loveliness of that Georgian’s skull, and the ethnic checkbox for white on official forms. This history is seldom taught in school, even in the study of race and racism. Unsurprisingly, Americans today act like racial literalists, conflating the text that we read—human bodies—with the interpretation through which we read it—…
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…ream in the “command center,” Hood recounts: “[Apostle Jane Hamon, daughter-in-law of Bill Hamon] was releasing armed drones towards Washington DC. Each of these drones had targets they were locked on and I knew that most of the targets were political targets, unrighteous rulers, people that had partnered with the Enemy and his agenda; people within the system that had compromised and that so had sold America out; these were being eliminated, remo…
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…erected in the public square in Florence. It towered in seven stages sixty feet high and 240 feet in circumference. While bells tolled, the people sang hymns and the fire burned.” Wagner’s books remain influential in the NAR, a dynamic organizational revamping and politicization of much of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. The movement is still not well known, despite major coverage in, among others, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Sa…
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…mong those leading the charge is author and journalist La Carmina, whose latest book, titled The Little Book of Satanism, covers both the history of Satanism and the contemporary landscape. RD recently spoke with La Carmina about the connection between QAnon and Satanic Panic, Satanists’ support for LGBTQ rights, and the Devil’s ever-deepening hoofprint on pop culture. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Satanism appears to be h…
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…CatholicGoogle.com saves us from that blasphemy! The same happened when I searched “stem cell research,” “sex,” “life” and “abortion.” All the articles reinforced the institutional Catholic Church stance on the subjects. Surprisingly, the editors of this site must have forgotten to block out those renegade progressive Catholics (note the sarcasm). When I searched for “women’s ordination” two pro-women’s ordination groups, Roman Catholic Women Pri…
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…d “anal” among the top ten. Information collected by Vocativ compiles state-by-state trends among people accessing Pornhub, a highly trafficked tube site. In Utah, the favorite search term is “lesbian” while Vermont’s favorite search term is “cartoon.” Porn viewers in religious Mississippi spent more average time-per-visit on Pornhub in 2013 than any other state in the US. Because people who believe in conservative political and religious ideology…
Read More…according to the analysis by Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, and Juhem Navarro-Rivera: Majorities of minority Protestant millennials (78%), religiously unaffiliated millennials (66%), and Catholic millennials overall (59%) have a favorable opinion of Obama. However, less than half of white mainline Protestant millennials (38%), white Catholic millennials (31%), and white evangelical Protestant millennials (26%) have a favorable opinion of the preside…
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…rs a luxurious visual walking tour through the manifold ways in which Bible-books are made, and how the people who make them also make them meaningful. Dancing between texts as diverse as the gloriously illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels, to the resplendent mechanical artistry of the Gutenberg Bible, and on to more demotic forms such as the red-letter King James pocket Bible or the dizzying bric-a-brac of the 66-volume Kitto Bible, Ferrell never fail…
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