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A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…leaders meet with Christian dominionist activist in Harrisburg, Lancaster Online, May 1, 2024 Academic Books American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times published in 2024 by André Gagné The New Apostolic Reformation: A History of a Modern Charismatic Movement, published in 2016 by John Weaver The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, by Matthew D. Taylor (Fall 2024)…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…y.” The fact of the matter is, not so much has changed since 1967. African Americans under the first African-American president have watched the bottom fall out of the black middle class. What will the 2012 election change about this situation? Perhaps it is time for the churches to begin to “mic check” MLK’s words on poverty, in addressing all of our branches of government, in order to bring about Kings’s Beloved Community. Kerry Pimblott______…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…es from a long historical tradition,” Kidd points out that even before the American Revolution Anglo-Americans were predisposed to hostility towards Muslims. Two elements were chiefly responsible for the hostility: the widespread notion that all Muslims had to be brought to Christianity and the rampant speculations about the End Time that saw Islam as the Antichrist. Humphrey Prideaux’s 1697 book The True Nature of Imposture Fully Displayed in the…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…ad four sub-ratings, from acceptable for all to acceptable for adults with reservations), to “B” (morally objectionable in part), to “C” (condemned). This rating system, which was even more stringent than the Hays Code, “dominated film production during Hollywood’s golden era,” says Black. Movie producers lived in fear of obtaining a “condemned” rating from the Legion and adjusted their output accordingly. This month, Turner Classic Movies will ex…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…on any proto-jihadist rhetoric that surfaces within their community. Every American Muslim should be signing up for this effort. Those who don’t sign up should be summarily liquidated. That’s simple logic. Secretary Johnson, you are likewise entirely right to expect that any remaining reservations about Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism program should melt away in the face of the new urgency. Today, of course, we are also more aware…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…of frustration with the editor’s refusal to side more decisively with the American Railway Union. At churches across the city’s South Side, meanwhile, Protestant churchgoers rose up against “scab ministers.” Nowhere was the backlash more severe than at Pullman Presbyterian Church. When the minister there railed against the strike—declaring at one point, “there is a maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread, and in my judgment the employees w…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…, which together extend their ecclesial jurisdiction over 6 federal Indian reservations in South Dakota. By 2010, more than 65 Catholic priests and religious formerly employed at Indian boarding schools within those dioceses had been named in lawsuits targeting sexual abuse—a number that suggests a far higher per-capita rate of offending clergy than even in New Mexico. In New Mexico, the victims of abuse were mainly Nuevomexicano and Indigenous ki…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…s movement. Given Hillary Clinton’s deep reservoir of support with African-American voters, it might not have made much difference, but it’s an interesting counter-factual to contemplate. Barber himself seems to have thought along similar lines, suggesting at one point an alliance with the liberal netroots community Daily Kos, long a bastion for support for Sanders. (Full disclosure: I used to be very active at Daily Kos and formerly ran its relig…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…even worse — a mass “prophylactic” cleansing of homosexuals, the security service agents told the gay men as they rounded them up. At a protest in Santiago, Chile, people wore pink triangles, drawing parallels between the reported concentration camps in Chechnya and those in Nazi Germany. Human rights activists began collecting and publicizing accounts of survivors and called on Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s “top diplomat,” to raise hu…

Material(ist) Girl: A Philosopher Argues Against the Soul

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nto this long conversation about reincarnation and I presented him with my reservations about such a thing. Something is left, namely the body, and as that disintegrates small creatures make use of the bits and pieces and in that sense it’s reincarnated, but there isn’t anything else, some nonphysical thing that has feelings and thoughts and memories and personality that goes into the little critters or into a person. What gets transferred from pa…