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Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s expose…

Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…e priorities of old-fashioned evangelism—where a premium was placed on the number of souls that were “saved”—have been supplanted in recent years by those of the social gospel, in which Christian ethics are applied to societal issues such as poverty, violence, preventable disease, ecological concerns, gender issues, and human rights. “More and more you are beginning to see people seeing the social aspect of the Gospel, where Jesus himself went out…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…of meta-humor, however, it was clear that the heated argument had taken a toll on the atheist and skeptic community. But the internet explosion wasn’t without its benefits. If you had managed to elbow your way through the melee without getting splattered by stray mudslinging, or accidentally whacked by someone going to town on a straw man, you might have noticed some genuinely thoughtful, nuanced ethical discussions taking place. For the most par…

Actual Treatment of Gays Belies Archbishop Dolan’s TV Welcome

By Peter Montgomery

…partner. “Being shunned from a community that means so much to me takes a toll, not just to me, but to those around me,” Coppola says. “My mom cried. My husband has been a great source of support for me, but he is also struggling with this action. Even my fellow parishioners are hurt and angry that I can’t be involved in the parish anymore.” In a follow-up to coverage of Dolan’s appearance, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the communications director for t…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…all eager to tell us how gruesome the unemployment and discouraged worker numbers continue to be, and how desperation and depression are taking their toll for millions who struggle for a livelihood. If there is any passion at all in these recitations, it is a passion in the head. Better than none, I suppose. But if we want to galvanize people who themselves are not struggling around the grim state of the economy, reeling off the facts won’t cut i…

Rage Against the Regime: Voices from the Iranian Underground Music Scene

By Austin Dacey

…18 Tir in the Persian calendar. What exactly is it they are fighting for? Freedom and democracy, yes. But freedom is an idea. It always comes down to Earth in the form of some simple thing we love. Like being able to play the song we want to hear. Below the rooftops, in private homes and dormitories, sometimes in gardens and parks, there is another sound: the crackle of electric guitars, the concussion of trap sets and plosives of rhymes spit in…

Christian Cults and Vampire Zombies: Stake Land is Scary and Smart

By Nick Street

…oach: it can’t be reconciled.” Thankfully, that nihilism takes a greater toll on the characters in Stake Land than it does on the viewer. While Martin, Mister and the other survivors they encounter must endure the onslaught of the Brotherhood—a radicalized Christian cult that commandeers aircraft from which to drop captured vampire-zombies into the last redoubts of civil order—they also pass through rural landscapes that have begun to reclaim th…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Competitive Religious Philanthropy in the Wake of the Nepali Earthquake

By Nalika Gajaweera

The death toll in Nepal has surpassed 8,500, Reuters reported this week, making it the country’s deadliest earthquake on record. In the aftermath of the disaster, aid has come in many forms, although not nearly enough. As Cathleen Falsani reported here in RD, faith groups of all kinds were quick to arrive in the devastated capital. But do religious groups engage seamlessly in humanitarianism in these contexts? In the direct aftermath of the quake…

It’s Hard to be a Jew

By Ira Chernus

…ey died. When Israel kills in my name, at least I get an approximate death toll. And occasionally I get human names and faces attached to the act, like the little girls who were found clinging to their mother’s corpse or the boy whose arm was eaten up by phosphorus burns. Still, knowing that Israel blocked medical supplies and volunteer medical teams from entering Gaza; that Israeli snipers targeted ambulance drivers; that Israel’s blockade still…