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Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…aces, colors, and nationalities who believe in the superiority of the natural family and marriage of one man and one woman.” The statement noted that while the organization is “against cohabitation, divorce, abortion, adultery and other acts that undermine society on which civilization is based,” it is especially opposed to “homosexuality because this destructive practice in the evils of organized political movement and became the principal enemie…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Review cruises and now, welcome aboard an Ezekiel cruise! Joel Rosenberg’s Flash Traffic newsletter reports that he and his wife recently returned from a Boston to Montreal cruise with “about 350 Precept Ministries leaders and donors, teaching the Bible prophecies of Ezekiel 36 and 37 (the rebirth of Israel and the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land in the last days) and Ezekiel 38 and 39 (the rise of a Russian dictator who will form an…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…oy Farm,” the settlement that Gandhi established for the striking Indian coal miners in South Africa. When Gandhi issued a statement on the question of Palestine, it was, to the profound disappointment of his Jewish friends, decidedly unsympathetic to Zionism. Palestine, he categorically declared, “belongs to the Arabs.” In the same issue of Harijan, Gandhi addressed the situation of the Jews of Germany, who since 1933 had been deprived of their c…

PAC Behind Anti-Park51 Ad Produced “One of the Sleaziest False TV Ads” of ’08 Campaign

By Sarah Posner

…n.” The ad claimed that Obama had a plan to give drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants (which was not true), and that would enable terrorists like Atta, an assertion FactCheck called “ridiculous” because Atta entered the country legally and in any event could have boarded the plane he hijacked without a driver’s license. In all, FactCheck concluded, “hardly a word in the ad is true.” The Cato Institute’s Jim Harper called the ad “despicable and…

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

By Michael Schulson

…enough to be venerated, just absent enough to be mysterious, and favoring flashy suits. The Church backs up this spectacle with genuine material support, and genuine political heft. Surrounding the temple in Hermosa Provinica are some of LLDM’s social service agencies. There’s a church-run hospital a few blocks away. The church bans drinking and smoking. For decades, church members have voted as a bloc for the powerful PRI party, which gives them…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…policies are morally indefensible, constitutionally inconsistent and economically insane. We are challenging the position of the religious right that the preeminent moral issues today are about religion in public schools, abortion and homosexuality with a critique that says the deepest public concerns of our faith traditions deal with how do you treat the poor, those on the margins—the least of these, women, children, workers, immigrants and the…

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…nately, this only helps the cause of the Pagan Throwback Santa that a liberal-minded person might like the idea of but would hardly take the time out of a busy day to appropriately placate. Things certainly don’t look good for the Santa familiar to most of us, the jolly old chap who dresses like Pope Benedict the XVI. Much of what we know about him was assembled from scattered mythology in “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the divinity school pro…

Transitions: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Identity, and Christians Behaving Badly (Again)

By Daniel Schultz

…be despised.” The reality of a fallen world, Moore says, means that we’re all alienated in one way or another “from who we were designed to be,” so there’s no room for Christians to judge transgender individuals. And then he goes right back to more of what you might expect from a Southern Baptist leader: “The cultural narrative behind the transgender turn … is rooted in the ancient heresy of Gnosticism, with the idea that the ‘real’ self is separ…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ords and bad words and sublime and despairing logics (and the Kardashians, alas) all spun together. And it is here that we address the dead in plaintive tones. In the book, a grieving Hazel reads the memorial posts on Augustus’ “wall page.” She is both horrified by and empathetic towards the endless tributes. Giving in to temptation, she replies to one post, but is never answered, “lost in the blizzard of new posts,” and realizes that Van Houten w…

It’s Not Raining Eligible Muslim Men

By Shabana Mir

…single were not unknown, but were not large in number and remained an anomaly. Wealthy and middle-class or educated single women could hold their own. In the diaspora, professional single women, outside of a traditional Muslim context, will inevitably change the face of the community. Traditional, conservative Muslims may have much to fear from these changes, but they must be faced. Growing numbers of Muslim women are marrying outside the faith….