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White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”

By Neil J. Young

…ction. News media did not report, as Carter asserts, that “an overwhelming number of evangelicals” voted for Trump. Instead, news media, including the The New York Times, Washington Post and Fox News, to name a few, all made clear time and again that a majority of white evangelicals supported Trump. It’s true that in prior election cycles the media has not been good about distinguishing “evangelicals” from “white evangelicals”—a confusion that sch…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Catholics Have Stopped Confessing

By Kate Childs Graham

…three cases involve sexual sins. Here are the cases that the penitentiary deals with: A man who directly participated in abortion (through, for instance, funding) and wants to enter priesthood A priest who has broken the seal of confession and revealed the sin and the sinner A priest who has offered absolution to their own sexual partner Someone was has desecrated the Eucharist Someone who has attempted to murder the pope. According to Cardinal J…

A Test of the Prophetic Imagination: Seeing a “Good Liberal” in All His Corrupt Glory

By Peter Laarman

…d Glaser says in Sasseen’s piece—that legislators like Frank who cut sweet deals for well-heeled interests are merely “bowing to reality.” Yes, but here is where some prophetic imagination is needed, because it is an unholy reality that these same insiders and lobbyists have created. What the lobbyists choose to call “political reality” translates into the reality of a Congress that is utterly beholden to them. So it really doesn’t matter if the…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…lieves he’s “the most respected, most feared person”), and all those peace deals will help him win a Nobel Peace Prize. That should soften the sentencing in his upcoming penalty phase now that he’s been found guilty of fraud. If you listened closely, you would see how US and global lives are just pawns to the two main establishment parties. Both argued about the Covid response without acknowledging that Covid is still costing the healthcare system…

“Religious Freedom” and the Conservative Quest for Absolute Truth

By Ira Chernus

…welling.” (It’s chapter two of his book, After Heaven.) Though the chapter deals overtly with American religious life in the 1950s, I find it a useful key to unlock the paradoxes that arise whenever religion meets conservative politics. The gist of the argument as I read it (begging Wuthnow’s pardon for the oversimplification) is that conservatives want to live in a home and a religious community with inviolable boundaries—stout walls, both lit…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…teve McCurry, and the media broadly, profit through money, accolades, book deals, and more jobs, while their very human subjects continue to suffer, often remaining nameless and untraceable. Like McCurry’s exploitation of Sharbat Gula and profiting disproportionately from the rights of her image, many members of the international community—the United States’ white military industrial complex and White Feminist Majority in particular—have regarded…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…d by evangelical parents who continue to promote Baucham today, states she deals with “ongoing anger from religious trauma syndrome” and has left religion entirely. These impacts are still felt today for many of these survivors. “I have been out for almost a decade,” West explains, “and I am still dealing with PTSD from the abuse I experienced, abuse that was fueled by [Baucham’s] teaching of biblical patriarchy.” Of course, these are personal sto…

Debt Peonage Update: Making Home Unaffordable

By Peter Laarman

…The government offers financial incentives to loan servicers that will cut deals with borrowers to reduce monthly payments. Recently the terms of the program were liberalized to allow more borrowers to qualify, and this week the White House made a big show of questioning mortgage company execs about the extremely small number of loans that have actually been modified to date. What we’ve all been hearing is that the pace of refinancing is slow beca…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eping quarters with heterosexuals are well grounded,” he added. Both their numbers and their claims about privacy and shared facilities are unfounded, especially when the facts are actually consulted. Way back in 2001, Deb Price, a columnist for the Detroit News, wrote about a study of what happened when other militaries around the world integrated gay and lesbian soldiers. The result — no increases in assaults, no need for separate shower or slee…