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Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…g support in the text of the First Amendment, but also that it is the only rule that truly makes sense for us as Americans. What good would come from permitting government to sneak a little (or a lot of) religion in here and there? As Justice O’Connor has said: “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has serv…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…eputy campaign manager and consultant to Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential runs in 1984 and 1988. “There has not been an official word from the Nation about Obama,” Walters said. “It would be out of character for Mr. Farrakhan to have a press conference to make a statement.” Out of character for Farrakhan, and out of character for a Nation that is learning to be cautious of interjecting into presidential politics. It is just one more indication of…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…many people have said that of her. Bishop Carcaño said LGBTIQ people who struggle for rights despite decades of ostracism also sustain her, along with “people who have not been corrupted by the institutional churches.” I am sure she has seen a lot who have been, especially in leadership circles. I asked Minerva if she had a word for political leaders. The Bishop urged them to “step out in the confidence that what is just and merciful will tr…

Occupy Judaism: A “Turning Point” in American Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…vil rights, and Arthur Waskow created a Freedom Seder, and Catholic priests and nuns were instrumental in anti-war agitation, their actions propelled by a fervent religiosity and expressed in liturgical terms.” So far word of Occupy Judaism has spread by word of mouth and by social media. Sieradski says people responded to the Kol Nidre service with statements like “this was the most meaningful Jewish experience of my life.”…

Glenn Beck’s History “Professor” David Barton On Racism and the Three-Fifths Rule

By Julie Ingersoll

…n Beck’s recent promotion of it, I discovered that he is the source—almost word for word—of the material contained in Kebreau’s presentation. Barton’s work has been a staple in Christian schools and among Christian homeschoolers for a generation now but thanks to Beck’s “Founders’ Fridays,” “university,” and upcoming rally at the Lincoln Memorial, Barton’s audience is expanding. Barton accuses historians of hiding the truth about slavery and racis…

Newt Gingrich Visits the “Holy Ghost Bartender”

By Sarah Posner

…his plight.” Browne is no inconsequential—or uncontroversial—figure in the world of charismatic Christianity. He’s been described by Christianity Today as the “often flamboyant Pentecostal preacher.” He’s associated with the “holy laughter” manifestation of charismatic gifts, which the same CT piece characterized as “rang[ing] from uncontrollable laughter to the noises of animals.” Here is Browne at Oral Roberts University, along with the late Ora…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…broad and deep. The New York Times editorialized on Thursday that these 17 words from the ruling might someday be recalled as historic: “Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and women.” I think what might become equally memorable is Judge Walker’s very clear statement that the sole source of this moral disapproval is religion and traditional morality. He wrote, “moral and religious views form the only bas…

US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

…ay’s loyalty to the Church. She was a faithful Catholic. He didn’t use the word obedient, exactly, but clearly that’s what he was getting at. Now there can be no doubt that Dorothy Day was a faithful Catholic; she did not spend a lot of time attacking the bishops. But she was also nobody’s fool. As the distinguished historian of American Catholicism James Terence Fisher has stressed, Day was shrewd enough to become one of the most influential Amer…

Homeschooling and American Exceptionalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…Forum. I have written about Phillips here, here and here. Christian Reconstructionist founder Rousas John Rushudoony is often called the father of the Christian homeschooling movement and convention lectures are frequently informed by Reconstructionist readings of the bible, in which the Old and New Testaments are a continuous narrative, and in which Biblical Law provides the basis for understanding our obligation to obedience, the exercise of dom…

Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

By John Stoehr

…ntly in the hope of achieving some semblance of The Good Life. All of that runs counter to the point of being, which is obedience, loyalty and fidelity to the collective. A woman able to think for herself enough to get an abortion is a person who threatens to pervert all they stand for. And “pervert” is not too strong a word. I would argue it’s quite accurate. To get an abortion is to commit a grave “sin”; not against God or religion, mind you, bu…