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Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…is aiming to do in Zimbabwe precisely what the religious right seeks to accomplish in the United States: declare the country a “Christian nation” guided by biblical principles, outlaw abortion, and ostracize and criminalize LGBT people. In the ACLJ, Bourland and Mpofu have powerful allies. Sekulow, who has been named one of the most influential evangelicals and prominent lawyers in America, has argued key cases in the religious right’s jurisprude…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…es, see “Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global” (http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/oped/1183/postcards_from_the_edge%3A_crackpot_anti-gay_crusader_goes_global). Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, a new book by Nathanial Frank, “[d]raw[s] on decades of research on gay service and hundreds of exclusive interviews with policymakers, government officials, academics and servic…

7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…published by The New York Times called “Transgender, At War and In Love.” https://www.facebook.com/Ireland.Logan/posts/10214301296633323?pnref=story …or leaders of the service branches to which he just issued orders… It appears that the White House and the Pentagon are playing a game of “hot potato” with reporters seeking further explanation and comment on the sudden about-face in policy. https://twitter.com/samstein/status/890281954574303232 M…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…the McCain Campaign Doesn’t Want you to See,” and to view the video, see (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/98698/). Jews for Jesus Director Responds: Jews for Jesus executive director, David Brickner, who during a talk at Sarah Palin’s church (she was present) described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity, claimed, in an interview with Christianity Today that his remarks were t…

Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

…ailed some of those questions, sometimes live from the Vatican press room: https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610468747204239360 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610469730340728833 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610480387039608832 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610731367555563520 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610743819869519873 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610775153497219072 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/6114417197…

Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

By Chrissy Stroop

…he Word of God. You’d only ruin perfection. Keep your edits on the shelf.” https://twitter.com/ostrachan/status/1416565381649555463?s=20 The backlash was immediate and extensive. Of course, Strachan may have been trolling for exactly the sort of reaction he got, as he’s launching a book on Christianity and “wokeness,” which he’s described as “a major threat to the Christian faith” and “a different religion altogether.” But even so, some of the res…

“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

By Anita Little

…_____ https://twitter.com/sista_theology/status/796212296909488128?lang=en https://twitter.com/BrandiNico/status/796239825951035392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Katelyn Beaty, an editor at Christianity Today, wrote in the Washington Post: When it comes to the Bible and Jesus and evangelism and service, the 81 percent and I share the same DNA. Although recently I have wished it were otherwise, evangelicals are my people. But this time, this election, I can’…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…r Mesko reported that Obama named Henry Rivera, former head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “to run the team that will select the next [FCC] chairman. Mesko, maintaining that Rivera “is a longtime proponent of the so-called Fairness Doctrine,” reported that “Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the Fairness Doctrine would force stations to stop addressing important policy issues”: “A Christian ra…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…se—literally, in the case of former Marine Jon Ritzheimer—are #WhiteTears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbGdMKpHDDE&feature=youtu.be The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been candid about its own struggles with white supremacy. For much of the Church’s history, Black Saints could not hold the priesthood, be sealed to their spouses for eternity or participate in temple endowment. But in 1978, God changed his mind about Black peopl…

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

By Anita Little

…iolence and the feeling of hopelessness that can pervade all these things. https://www.instagram.com/p/BV5tHoUBKk2/?taken-by=prettygirlsliketrapmusic “We can’t forget there are real-life experiences that inform trap music, and it’s daily living for a lot people. Many of us consume trap music as entertainment, but don’t think about the systemic issues that keep people trapped within trap culture,” says Wortham to RD. “You can’t talk about trap with…