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Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…the Antichrist—the head of the United Nations who plans to establish a one-world religion and one-world government. This includes assassinating the Antichrist, but also subterfuge and deception when opposing the Antichrist’s unwitting human servants. In other words, evangelicals are still writing apocalypses. These influential novels embody the sense of a besieged faithful minority oppressed by a state power allied with or subservient to God’s cos…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…d. Yet ironically, the illiberal Zionism of the “untroubled committed” now rules the state of Israel. Hartman may not be able to change that reality, so he wants to change the story. Is it possible, today, for one to not be a Zionist and still be pro-Israel? Can Israel be a state where Jews have autonomy and partial sovereignty but not be a Jewish state? That is, can one re-conceptualize Israel as a state of all its citizens without undermining th…

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…clergy, unlike Egypt’s, were much more independent of the state. In Egypt today, among the main trends in Islamic practice are a quietist Salafism, which seeks a rigorous but non-political personal morality, and the Muslim Brotherhood. And while the Brotherhood is an incredibly large and powerful organization, it is today a product of years of suppression, torture, and intimidation. While it seeks to change society, it does not pursue an explicit…

Anti-Contraception Activists Claim Their Suits are Last Resort to Undermine Health Care

By Sarah Posner

…list-style diktats will be used, not to provide better or more affordable health care, but to expand Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire across the backs of American taxpayers and people of conscience—and at the expense of our religious freedoms. In light of today’s ruling, Americans will greet Independence Day with prayer, sacrifice, and renewed energy to continue our opposition to this mandate. We must also recommit ourselves to restoring full…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…n.” Christianity, in his understanding may have had a positive function in world history insofar as it brought monotheism to the pagan world, but for Jews Christian ritual was a form of idolatry. “The Christian peoples, in all of their varied sects, are worshipping idols and their holidays are forbidden to us,” he wrote, while Islam, though a “mistaken” religion in his view, is monotheistic, and thus cannot be construed as idolatrous. Almost 900 y…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…is grand strategy. Then, charging that “many of the problems we see in the world today” have been created by liberals since the 1990s, he proposes that the future will be “the era of sovereignty” where every nation has the right to “dictate its goals and define its path… [that] differences in worldviews” are “not a bug but a feature.” Multiple centers of power will emerge in this world but they are not “expansive” and will not seek to “destroy one…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…ts because we did not worry more? Whatever the future holds for our little world, with its big fish like Trump, it is time now more than ever to tell the story of this forgotten first creed. History reminds us again and again that it has always been easier to believe in miracles, in virgin births and atoning deaths, in resurrected bodies and heavenly journeys home, than something so simple and basic as human solidarity. The Forgotten Creed, then,…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…from 20 religious organizations that supported the contraception coverage rule, without any religious exemptions, were scheduled to host a conference call today at 11:30 a.m. They postponed it after it became clear the White House was set to announce the accommodation today. The letter says the religious conscience of women and the separation of church and state support the requirement for coverage without an exemption for religious institutions….

Women to Pray for the First Time in April LDS World Meeting

By Joanna Brooks

…he history of Mormonism offer an invocation or benediction at the Church’s worldwide General Conference, this April 6–7, veteran religion journalist Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The announcement comes after Mormon feminists and their allies mounted a “Let Women Pray” letter-writing campaign this winter. (LDS officials say that the Conference program was set “many weeks ago.”) Women’s advocates within the LDS Church like…

How We Respond to the Death of Our Enemies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ple like Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam, Bin Laden and others will not let that world exist.” Really? They will not “let” that world exist? It seems to me that statement gives the “bad guys” far too much power and responsibility. Isn’t it really all of us who have not “let” that world come into being? Instead of heeding the calls to nonviolence that figures like Jesus, Gandhi, and King have beckoned us to, it’s so much easier to give in to our baser na…