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Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…st’s Second Coming, but Camping said that was right. He knew the year, the week and the month, not the day or the hour. A follow-up, setting the same date, was titled Are You Ready? In it, Camping claimed to have discovered a calendar in the Bible, missed by everyone who had ever read the Bible before. Referencing the prophet Daniel’s description of an apocalyptic unsealing of “the book,” Camping wrote: It is God’s plan that knowledge of His Word…

RNC Chair Hopefuls Defend “Traditional Marriage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the America of the 1950s or 1960 or even the 1990s. It is a very different day.” That’s nice sentiment from Steele, but the RNC chairman is really Fundraiser-in-Chief and as much as he might like to reach out to traditional Republican punching bags like Latinos, African Americans, and gays — they aren’t the ones giving up the big checks. It’s still the old guard — the religious right and those who use them — who continue to fill the RNC coffers. S…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…was the last thing on my husband’s mind.” Bush now spends several hours a day painting. In his opening essay “Painting as a Passion,” Bush recalls telling one of his art teachers, “[T]here’s a Rembrandt trapped in this body . . . Your job is to liberate him.” He first painted a cube, then a watermelon, then an apple. He took online courses from the Museum of Modern Art to study art history. He painted his pets and landscapes at his ranch and self…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…ed. “I don’t think there is any glitter… left whatsoever.” Indeed, the one-day event on Zoom staged by NAR intellectuals, paled before the national audiences, televised spectacles, and access to power enjoyed by many of the glitterati of their movement—such as Apostles Dutch Sheets and Lance Walnau—who are often featured at events hosted by the attention-grabbing Flashpoint Live program. These events draw in-person audiences of thousands and are b…

Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…to become part of the daily chatter of Jews unable to devote their entire day to study. It was a brilliant idea and widely successful, far more than Shapiro could have imagined. For Horn, the Talmud is the testament of dead Jews and daf yomi is how Jews love them. One page every day. So we’ve come full circle. Loving dead Jews isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If you’re a Jew. In fact, it’s the very quintessence of Torah study, the centerpiece of Je…

As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…te, but in Dublin’s cathedral youthful faces only speckle the crowd. Three days of talking with Church leaders help put numbers and pictures in perspective. But their insights on the Church’s problems make the new pope’s task sound all the more difficult. Many of the Irish Church’s fiercest critics are also its most devoted sons and daughters, who came of age when the social teachings of the Second Vatican Council provided a religious foundation f…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…r life is not easy and the pain and suffering they see and experience each day can be quite overwhelming. Of course, I suppose we all sometimes suffer from self-pity or think our burdens are too great. Once after visiting an AIDS hospital in India that was more like a warehouse for the dying, I said to myself, “OK, I have to go back tomorrow, but that will be my last time. Others can do it from now on.” But then the next day, to my total surprise,…

BSA Gay Okay?—Delay.

By Joanna Brooks

…are affiliated with congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yesterday, the LDS Church’s Public Affairs division released a statement acknowledging that the prospective policy change had “triggered intense debate” and praised the BSA for “delaying a vote” “until the implications can be more carefully evaluated.” “We caution others not to speculate about our position,” the LDS Church statement continued, “or to assume th…

Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…f the hero archetype keeps popping up, trickster-like, to tweak our modern-day discomfort with difference. “You’re different too?” Claire asks Matt Parkman when she realizes that the former LAPD officer is reading her thoughts. Every Day is a Struggle In “Company Man,” an episode that aired during the first season of Heroes, Parkman and Ted Sprague, a human nuclear reactor who’s unstable in more ways than one, have invaded the Bennet home to get i…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…honor of Cesar Chávez’s 86th birthday also happened to appear on Easter Sunday, one of the most sacred days for Christians the world over. Responses ranged from mild disappointment to vows to replace Google with search engines like Bing (which decorated its homepage with Easter eggs). But what underlies nearly all the comments is the assumption of the whiteness of U.S. Christianity alongside the pairing of brownness with particular political agend…