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Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…Penn Lewis, who wrote extensively on spiritual warfare, and were read avidly by some early Pentecostals. Their books, still in print today, focused on demonic possession, deliverance, and powerful spiritual encounters. In the 1940s the movement that would give these beliefs further impetus was the Latter Rain Movement, which arose out of revivals in Canada. Focusing on extraordinary outpourings of the Holy Spirit, with spectacular spiritual manife…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…as a Tesla coil to brand a cross into Zachary’s arm [see image above]. They say the burn, which in photos show an 8-by-4-inch mark on his forearm, raised blisters, kept their son awake that night, and lasted for several weeks. At first glance, they saw the mark as a religious emblem. But their first concern was less about religion and more about what they considered to be a case of a teacher injuring their son. Their accusations and their resulti…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…ning on the website RadicalIslam.org, maintained by the Clarion Fund. “Today you can find closed communities of Radical Muslims across the United States promoting Radical Islamic ideology and living under localized versions of Shari’ah.” This view that shari’ah is a threat to the constitution, to capitalism, and to American liberty helps explain the rash of attempts to “ban” shari’ah in the states. Rep. Gerald Gay, the Wyoming legislator sponsorin…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…First Amendment. I had brought along my video camera in order to get some thoughts from the clan on the upcoming case and their thoughts on the First Amendment. Phelps’ daughter Margie Phelps — also the attorney who will be presenting arguments before the Supreme Court — calls Snyder a crybaby. Shirley Phelps-Roper, the primary spokeswoman for the church, explains that God crashed the stock market because of Snyder v. Phelps. She also makes a poi…

8 Great Hanukkah Clips from TV

By Michael J. Altman

…the jump depending on how you got to this post) begins playing automatically. You may want to pause it before reading and enjoying the videos. — eds. Most articles during the course of Hanukkah’s 8 days will remind you about the holiday’s history or, perhaps, relate stories about how various communities are celebrating. Not being Jewish and growing up in the Bible belt, everything I learned about Hanukkah I learned from television. So, I figure th…

Rand Paul’s Buddhist Roots Uncovered

By Julie Ingersoll

…Aqua-Buddha college pranks notwithstanding, Rand Paul embraces Buddhist notions of the interconnectedness of everything and the illusion of difference; “nothingness” is The Word. Thanks to my colleague Jon for sharing. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Nothingness www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive…

Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?

By Rachel Wagner

…In The Bible Online these issues are somewhat more confused, complicated by your dual identity as God (through control of wealth and resources) and as his patriarchs (through specific role-play). Perhaps, though, we’ll find that players’ ability to control resources is thwarted by divine intervention within the game’s algorithms. Perhaps we’ll discover that when we play as Abraham or Isaac or Jacob, if we don’t fulfill the game’s (and thus God’s)…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…eir teaching on marriage, the result will be church-state conflicts for many years to come.” In an equally hyperbolic statement, USCCB president Dolan has charged that the administration’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court could “precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions.” The Church has an ally in Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Ref…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…a cross without a dead body. What we want, I believe (and here I may betray my own religiosity) is to be connected, to show and display and connect with compassion. As Sontag says, “Let the atrocious images haunt us.” The Sufis, I suspect, are correct: there is a current of love that underlies all creation, and interconnection is the real truth of matter. Looking at images of 9/11 may be one reminder of this, of our collective fate, a postmodern…

True or False: Less Religion Means Greater Diversity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…iliated than do either GenXers or Millennials, there are a lot of them. So yes, younger people are more likely than Americans over 30 to be unaffiliated, but—counter-intuitively, perhaps—there are more unaffiliated among the over-30 population. In the end, I can’t help but think that it might not be that useful to image religious affiliation, or unaffiliation, as a generational phenomenon. After all, affiliation itself is unfolding in very differe…