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The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…he dead illustrate poignant principles for the living, but the World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s architectural centerpiece, named the “Oculus,” is an unsightly and inappropriate monument. The space is part of the newly-constructed campus—the WTC Hub—that has been in development since the attack that destroyed the World Trade Center in 2001. But what the Oculus brings to the memorial area bears no emotional awareness of the attack at all. The…

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Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

…o take over. I applaud his move and read it as a sign of hope in a dreary ecclesial scene. Speculation about his health is rampant. As with many elders whose offspring plot to take away the car keys, I suspect there was some backdoor lobbying to make this retirement happen. But I dare to hope that it was at least in part the considered judgment of an octogenarian who saw his predecessor propped up long after his prime and did not want the same for…

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The Ponzi Prosperity Gospel

By Pen Itent

…we hear of financial scams, corporate greed, and virtually anything money-related that isn’t entirely on the up-and-up. While religion has generally been a help in these economically difficult times, there is one segment of Christianity that is scamming as many as they can. Those who have ears (and debt) let them hear. The Prosperity Gospel, also known as a facet of the Word of Faith movement (a louder voice in Pentecostalism), has been writing ch…

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Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…d.   For example, the Times notes: Mr. Barton burst onto the conservative scene in 1988, when he published a study that blamed a decline in SAT scores and other social ills, like violent crime and unwed births, on the Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 that banned prayer in public schools… Scholars derided his report as a classic confusion of correlation and causation. But Mr. Barton still thinks otherwise. “The nation walked away from God,”…

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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…ign called Project Blitz. Their model resolution for Religious Freedom Day celebrates a day devoted to something they oppose: religious freedom. Yes, the authors mouth many of the right things, including boilerplate platitudes and cherrypicked historical artifacts as recommended by Project Blitz. But what’s omitted illuminates the intentions of the theocratic Dominionists (notably, David Barton, as we reported in our original story) who have led P…

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Colbert v. Stewart: It’s On! 10.30.10

By Julie Ingersoll

…ts pretty clear his goal is to out-do his arch rival Stewart.   The whole scene was repeated on Colbert’s show where Stewart did his own walk-on while Colbert was extolling fear. “Now is not the time to take it down a notch; now is the time to freak out for freedom!” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c March to Keep Fear Alive www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Plans for both rallies seem rather f…

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Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

…subgenre of rap originating in the South, with Atlanta arguably being its central hub. To others, it was an art gallery, housing local artists’ depictions of other groundbreaking rappers such as Tupac and André 3000. To some, it was a free HIV testing site, as 2 Chainz opened a temporary STD clinic in the house over Fourth of July weekend. But for Pastor Michael Wortham of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, it became the home of “trap c…

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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…er’s remorse,” or are they getting what they expected out of Team Obama? Recently, some Christian evangelicals have expressed their disappointment in Obama’s approach to the issue of abortion. In a USA Today column dated March 16 and titled “Mr. President, we need more than lip service,” David P. Gushee wrote: I knew from the beginning that if Obama took typical Democratic positions on abortion-related issues, this centrist evangelical friendlines…

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Dear Evangelicals, A “Begrudging” Vote for Trump Is Still a Vote for Trump

By Neil J. Young

…is year, now only a small circle of holdouts remain. By this summer, 94 percent of Republican evangelicals indicated they would vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. That evangelicals have fallen in line behind such an unlikely, unsavory choice becomes all the more stunning when we remember how slowly and even begrudgingly evangelical Republicans got behind Mitt Romney just four years ago. Apparently lending support to a devout, traditional…

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Romney Credits “Culture,” “Hand of Providence” for Israel’s Economic Superiority over Palestinians

By Sarah Posner

…s managed to attribute the vast economic disparity between Israel and the occupied terrorities to the specialness of the Jews, citing “the power of at least culture and a few other things,” including “the hand of providence.” Via the AP: Having publicly pledged a “solemn duty and moral imperative” to protect Israel, Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the…

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