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No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…heir blood put the fires out. So the fires were ordered to be relit, three times. How do you make that out of construction paper? And then Governor John Winthrop ordered a day of Thanksgiving to be set aside: “Thus did the Lord judge among the heathen, filling the place with dead bodies.” We know that when the passengers on the Mayflower landed in November of 1620, the first thing they did, the very first act they perpetrated, was to rob the grave…

Teilhard’s Legacy Can’t Be Reduced to Racism: A Response to John Slattery

By Joshua Canoza

…s vision of ‘fire’ at the Royal Wedding comes largely from The Mass on the World, completed in 1923.” Fire imagery is central to Teilhard’s writing and Bishop Curry’s selection bears some affinity with “The Mass on the World,” but the sermon’s most direct citation is from an essay titled “The Evolution of Chastity” written in 1934. I find this omission strange, but it could stem from Slattery’s desire to separate Teilhard’s work into an acceptable…

Obama’s Bunker-Busters to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…down (filled with the apocalyptic fervor that Matt Sutton discussed in his Times op-ed today), Hagee advocated for the use of such weaponry against Iran, arguing that it would unleash the chain of events leading to the Second Coming: “If Israel bombs Iran’s eight nuclear sites with laser-guided, bunker-buster bombs, it could easily launch Ezekiel’s war, as described in Ezekiel 38-39.” As I wrote when Jerusalem Countdown appeared: He argues that a…

The Theology of Westboro: The “World’s Meanest Church” Is More Than Picket Signs

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…have advanced degrees. Many people in the church are athletes, especially runners, who compete on the local level, and Topeka, Kansas, where the church is located, is a city of over 125,000 people—not a big city but also not a rural backwater. Also only one church member—founding pastor Fred Phelps, who died over a year ago—was from the South. Our decision to depict anti-LGBT bigots using these stereotypes reveals some larger cultural prejudices….

Evangelical Writers Take Homophobic Hipster Pastor to the Mat—Sort Of

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ins against me? Up to seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.’” After a couple seconds of berating myself for being a bad Christian for not wanting to let Driscoll off the hook, I was kind of good to go until I got to this parenthetical note in Evans’ post: Coincidentally, Mark and I have both written books about the Bible and gender to be released by Thomas Nelson in the near future. At the risk of goi…

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

…at the Nazi Party was largely created by ‘homosexual thugs.’” That, in the Times piece, is a “disputed theory,” rather than a conspiracy theory made up by anti-gay zealots. AFA’s Fischer regularly contends that Muslims and gays and others are America’s enemies on a collision course with besieged Christians. He tells the Times: “I don’t think we are exaggerating the dangers to the country, the culture, the American family.” Or, as Wildmon’s fears…

LDS Church Praised for “Good Sense and Sanity” on Immigration Policy

By Joanna Brooks

This week, the New York Times editorial page praised the LDS Church-influenced and endorsed Utah Compact on immigration as a model of sane and compassionate policy making. Wrote the Times: “A clearer expression of good sense and sanity than Utah’s would be hard to find.” (Hooray!) Also this week, the LDS Church joined with leaders from the Catholic, Protestant, Sikh, Orthodox Jewish, Anglican, and other faiths in a statement entitled “The Protect…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…know that Donald Trump is not a Christian,” the preacher and editor of End Times News Geoffrey Grider declared, but “God is preparing to shake the nations of the world and I believe he is going to use Donald Trump to do it.” And there is the much-cited firefighter Mark Taylor, who back in 2011 had a prophetic vision while watching Trump on TV. The Spirit of God says, I have chosen this man, Donald Trump, for such a time as this. For as Benjamin Ne…

The Bishops Did Send a Message with Their Vote on Biden and Communion; Are We Sure It Was The One They Intended?

By Daniel Schultz

…s to receive has flopped, more or less as I predicted. Contrary to the New York Times, I never thought this was an effort to deny Biden communion itself. As the Times and any other intelligent observer knows, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can’t set policy for the reception of sacraments. That’s done by the bishops in their respective dioceses, and carried out (sometimes not) by individual priests presiding in worship. Certainly no one un…

The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…, Americans United for Values, did not respond to a request for comment.) Trump, who is running neck and neck with Cruz in Iowa, has aligned himself with some televangelists. Trump’s embrace of controversial televangelists started during his failed 2012 run, and continued with his 2016 run—although Kenneth Copeland, possibly the most well-known of the group that laid hands on Trump last fall, denied that the prayerful meeting was an endorsement. P…