Search for "bbc news cleantalkorg2.ru bbc news news word news usa Breaking News Live Updates Politics World News The New York Times"

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…understand why, exactly, it helps to pay a visit to the Church’s Mexican Jerusalem, tucked into the eastern sprawl of Guadalajara. We have our own power There is no clear border to Hermosa Provincia. The colorful walls of Guadalajara’s citrus-lined streets just grade into whitewashed buildings, their window sashes and doors painted gold. On the streets, women appear in the ankle-length skirts required by the church. (Eva García, Samuel’s wife, is…

Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…ercer deliberately polluting the mediasphere and thereby perpetuating what New York Times columnist Charlie Wurzel calls the “eternal culture war doomloop.” I’m aware that this is too much raw Marxism for many RD readers to swallow. I simply counter that Marx was right about many things. We Americans tend to overcompensate for our aversion to the Marxist critique by holding, against all evidence, that culture rot proceeds entirely independently of…

This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

In a bombshell story last month, the New York Times revealed that two years ago an obscure billionaire named Barre Seid gifted $1.6 billion to a conservative political power broker, while skirting as much as $400 million in taxes. The transaction was difficult to uncover, benefiting from both an inside source and a chase through tax documents. Few had heard of Seid prior to the Times story. But it’s now clear that he’s made a massive monetary foo…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ht and within the Republican Party.” Indeed, while a recent article in the New York Times claims that “neither Ms. Greene nor Mr. Gosar is a party leader,” this is true only in the most technical sense of the term—as demonstrated by the toothless response of major GOP figures. And while Rogers may present herself differently than other Republicans, who go for a more “respectable” brand, ideologically, the two are aligned, says Zimmer: “Sure, the e…

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…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…at the corner with the black stone. Then I will perform sa’iy, walking and running seven times between Safa and Marwa. I only know that I arrive in Jeddah at 9:30 p.m. No other real information from that recalcitrant tour company about how long we will be at this transition point before moving on—but here I am, jumping ahead of myself, again. What I meant to say was once these two rites have been completed, I am done with umrah. I can then clip my…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…author, and head of influential Christian Zionist institutions like the Jerusalem-based Friends of Zion Museum and the Jerusalem Prayer Team, a global outreach network with 30 million followers on Facebook. Evans has maintained close relationships with generations of Israeli heads of state from Menachem Begin to Benjamin Netanyahu, and exerts influence within GOP circles in the U.S., recently serving as an Evangelical Advisor to former President…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…tney, and Teen Mania founder Ron Luce. Engle, per his custom, likened his crusade against abortion to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement. He rocked back and forth, as though davening, preached against Roe v. Wade, and shouted, as the crowd prayed and spoke in tongues, “this is a Passover Day for America. Today, we plead the blood of Jesus on the doorpost!” Purity covenants, requiring abstention from even thinking about sex outside of m…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…n—the film is bound to frustrate, confuse, and amuse. Richard Brody at The New Yorker finds it audio-visually banal, while Zack Beauchamp writes an intellectually sympathetic essay at Think Progress; A.O. Scott at the New York Times offers, as usual, a solid review. But here I want to home in on some curious mystical and mythical melodies of this six-part narrative. The End Becomes the Beginning Mythological beginnings unfold throughout Cloud A…

Jihad of Islamophobes

By Hussein Rashid

…ncer replied “mine is countering your hate & defamation w/ truth abt Islam & Hamas-linked CAIR.” By coming out and saying he practices “jihad,” we are left with two choices: by his definition he hates America and should be arrested, or he has been manipulating the meaning of the word to make money by demonizing a group of Americans (therefore hating on America). Either way, we now have confirmation from Spencer’s own mouth that he is not to be tru…