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Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…ments. The question is instead whether or not those who are creating these new expressions of the faith are doing so out of an authentic and genuine invitation of the same Holy Spirit that has fed the church from its birth. In Beyond Resistance, you suggest that some churches should stop struggling and to plan to “die with dignity.” You’ve also said that “the best days of the United Church of Christ are ahead of us.” What do the best days look lik…

Mubarak Steps Down; The Birth of a New Egyptian State

By Zaid Hassan

…the death of the oh-so-very-tired. Visceral, extremely bloody and painful, new life is new life, to be celebrated in all its mewling imperfection. It signals new beginnings, new possibilities and new terrains. What form will new life take? What is the nature of a new Egypt? Is it tall and strong? Does it have a mind of its own? What color will it be? Red, blue or green? Will it look different from what we expected? What developmental trajectory wi…

New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…They somewhat wryly added, “Those wanting to use Old Testament prophetic texts to exercise influence or authority over their followers should remember that inaccurate prophecy under that same Old Testament standard was punishable by death.” While they may not be calling for the execution of false prophets, they certainly are drawing a line in the sand and asserting that “prophets do not serve as spiritual fortune tellers or prognosticators, nor is…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…they have been doing in their communities for decades. It was obviously a new experience for the gentlemen. Resolution was aided by the change in papal leadership, and propelled by public outrage and economic pressure. Some would say the Holy Spirit had a role as well. The recent end of the Mandate was foreshadowed on December 16, 2014 at the release of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life’…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…campaign later tried to amend the statement to replace the phrase “entire existence” with “sad, miserable existence.”] In graduate school, I concentrated in political philosophy and ethics, where I was rightly trained to be wary of arguments that tried to score rhetorical points by deploying a Nazi analogy, a move sometimes called reductio ad Hitlerum in philosophical circles. This tactic is a logical fallacy, typically taking the form of a slippe…

Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…ists find them abrasive. These critics of the New Atheists might be called New New Atheists. They too have come forward to proclaim atheism, yet to denounce the New Atheists in a way that to me is reminiscent of the church splits that my evangelical/Calvinist missionary parents (Francis and Edith Schaeffer who founded the ministry of L’Abri in Switzerland) went through. We became members of ever “purer” churches through one “separation” after anot…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…has been the concurrent development of a radical, diverse, and frequently experimental new genre that, writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), I termed the “New Religion Journalism.” Associating the genre with the founding of Killing the Buddha by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau in 2000, I claim that the New Religion Journalism became a necessary way of investigating faith, especially following 9/11. Over the past two decades, there has…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…ncient tale having such an effect on me? How could I respond? During the next six months, especially as a member of an antiwar, anti-racist delegation elected from D.C. to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, some elements of the Passover story kept erupting inside me. The City of Chicago was infamously tyrannized by its Mayor, Richard Daley, who ordered a police riot to bloody nonviolent demonstrators against the war. While his police t…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…rted. And while the focus of any such reporting in the US has been almost exclusively on the American context, the NAR plays an important role in the culture and politics of many other nations. That this massive, multidimensional trend is so underreported and its international character, dimensions, and organization are mostly missed, means that even our best understanding of this movement is often problematic. In parts one and two of our Reporter…

When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part II

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…as a group, they tend to be distrustful of the media. Lance Wallnau, for example, a popular Texas-based NAR prophet (who made news while campaigning for 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano) has repeatedly claimed that the media is under the influence of a Leviathan demonic spirit that lies and twists the news and people’s words. Indeed, sometimes the media also give them reasons to be distrustful. We hope that these further c…