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Satanists Want You to Respond to the Pandemic with Compassion. And Reason.

By Joseph Laycock

…nings have to be taken seriously. We learned the hard way that the coronavirus is not “fake news.” Now maybe some people will rethink their attitudes about climate change. Can you say more about this online support system you’re trying to build? We are trying to keep everyone positive and connected. It’s going to be more and more important to set up alternative forms of socializing. I think this a place where we as a religious community can really…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…ggard’s personal and professional resurrection following the 2006 sex and drugs scandal that led to his abrupt resignation from the twin pulpits of conservative religious power: New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the National Association of Evangelicals and an unceremonious exile to Phoenix, Arizona. Haggard fancies himself the rebel bucking authority, and bringing Christ’s true message to the masses. “I’m gonna be like Paul,” he tells me, re…

If Hillary Wins Big It Won’t Be a Moral Victory—And That’s a Crying Shame

By Peter Laarman

…he pundits and prognosticators have been bringing us the good news—and it truly is good news—of Hillary Clinton’s steady march to victory in November. It’s not just that Trump is still flailing and shape shifting; it’s also that Clinton possesses an incredible field operation, an incredible strategic team, and an incredible steely resolve to achieve what she couldn’t quite achieve eight years ago. Clinton’s advantages have definitely put control o…

Tea Party=
Religious Right=
Unpopular

By Sarah Posner

…us right just because they need it to form a coalition—they are it.” In February, Pew released a survey which similarly found the overlap, too. And today, in an interesting piece in The Awl, Abe Sauer, who spent two years with the Tea Party, concludes: “I finally know what the Tea Party wants: A Christian nation.” Digby concludes, drawing on Putnam and Campbell, thatt’s good news that the Tea Party brand has lost its luster,” even if it’s just the…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…ion that only the decline of the church could facilitate. Artists are free to identify as they please, but denying that they are Christian artists when their bodies and speech run thick with the Good News is every bit as believable as a human calling himself a taco just because he’s in a Taco Bell. …

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…r statue and shot. Lawyers from the Satanic Temple demanded an apology. FEBRUARY In February, the media focused on Miranda Barbour, 19, who was accused of killing a man she met on Craigslist. The “Craigslist Killer” alleged that she had been inducted into a Satanic cult at an early age and was forced to kill numerous people. In interviews, Gilmore and Greaves dismissed Barbour’s claims, diffusing some of the Satanic Panic. MARCH Fred Phelps died o…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…people. Other activists Belize: Government will challenge anti-sodomy-law ruling, create ‘public morality’ commission In the aftermath of a recent ruling by the country’s Chief Justice against the sodomy law, the government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow has agreed to set up a “church state commission on public morality” that will consider “how to protect family values in an inclusive society.” The government also announced that it will appeal the…

Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

By Peter Laarman

…ers are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.” (Mt. 11:5: Crossan observes that in the context of grinding oppression, the most miraculous item in this list is that the poor are learning that God has good news for them.) And then there is the radical nonviolence. Jesus is certainly among the great axial age figures who invites us to explore and apply the immense power of nonviolent direct action….

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…ism” with Jews achieves validation through the anti-socialist rhetoric of Trump and his Fox News apparatus. Media like O’Reilly and Dugard’s book represent a current imbrication of this anti-socialism and anti-Semitism on white nationalist biblical interpretation. Confronting anti-Judaism in the New Testament In the aftermath of the Poway synagogue shooting, a number of evangelical leaders responded that Christians need to confront and correct Chr…

What’s Behind Trump’s “Impossibly Stupid” Roll Back of Contraception Mandate

By Daniel Schultz

…ave to come up with some half-baked “compromise” after the president gets frustrated and abruptly changes course, revealing in the process he never really gave a damn about their “moral objections”? Whatever the short-term benefits, in the long run, this will more than likely turn out to be a spectacular failure, enraging liberal opponents and frustrating conservative supporters. But that’s the price you pay when you set out to please your base wi…