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Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

While a number of conservative Christian leaders raise questions about Glenn Beck’s Mormonism, Worldview Matters’ host Brannon Howse continued his attack in a conversation with Kirk Cameron about why Cameron did not participate in Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny. Howse marveled at the “thick irony” wherein Cameron (the actor who played Buck, the converted journalist warning about the “demonic spirituality of a one world religion” in the Left Behind m…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…he understanding of the fivefold ministry gets openly militant—or at least military—very quickly: So Dutch Sheets likes to use a military analogy for this, and he’ll say, if you’re thinking about the fivefold ministry, pastors are kind of either the chefs in the army or the medics—they’re there to help repair people and hold people to take care of the troops. The evangelists, or the teachers are seen as the drill sergeants, who are training the tr…

Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question

By Joseph Laycock

…ve written on the case of John Errol Ferguson, a schizophrenic murderer in Florida, who claimed that upon his execution he alone would be seated at the Right Hand of God before being resurrected to save America from a communist plot. Under federal law, the mentally ill cannot be executed—psychiatrists had even identified a fissure in Ferguson’s brain consistent with schizophrenia. However, Florida’s eighth circuit ruled that Ferguson’s delusions w…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…petty intolerance and the left for “not getting it”; and Joel Hunter, the Florida megachurch pastor who infamously turned down a stint as the president of the Christian Coalition, and author of A New Kind of Conservative. FIPL has taken a lead role in promoting the “broader agenda” of some of these evangelical leaders. No longer interested in fighting the so-called “culture wars,” these leaders say they will de-emphasize their opposition to abort…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…ilarly that the circumstance passed the “legal test” for just humanitarian/military intervention. But of course our world is made of the overgrowth of words and opinions that spasm exponentially in response to such pronouncements, and even horror becomes yet another occasion or opportunity for establishing causality and connections, for mapping the amorphous: some allege that the seemingly inevitable military strike will be a proxy war between Ame…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…d—E pluribus unum.” Or, consider how after US newspapers reported that the military gave Osama bin Laden an “Islamic burial,” some interfaith responded by celebrating the moral resolve and pluralist ethic that inspires the US military to “treat even its worst enemy with utmost dignity”—never mind the years of torture, extrajudicial killing, and wars that provided background context. Such claims are premised on realizing the promise of a liberal na…

The Biggest Lesson Learned From the US War in Afghanistan is How Little We’ve Learned

By Sara Kamali

…bal connections, Afghans themselves were sidelined and prevented by the US military industrial complex from asserting their own ideas and desires for the present and future of their country. US officials prioritized their own political preferences colored by the greed of war in a trillion-dollar mineral-rich nation instead of exercising cultural competency and a sincere desire to build a sustainable infrastructure. Afghanistan is one of the poores…

Putin Escalates Ukraine Invasion to ‘Cosmic War’ — But There is Hope

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…called “cosmic war.” It’s more than just a religious affirmation of one’s military; it’s lifting military combat into the high proscenium of spiritual battle. This is what Patriarch Kirill and now Putin have done with their war in Ukraine: turned it into their own cosmic war. Such wars never end well. Like the notion of “absolute war” described by the 18th century Prussian General, Carl von Clausewitz, as long as a battle is conceived in cosmic t…

How 95% of Jewish Israelis Support a ‘Plausible’ Genocide

By Zachary Foster

…Israeli judge Aharon Barak claimed that it was in the “DNA of the Israeli military” to abide by international humanitarian law. In other words, Barak’s argument was not that Israel has not been committing atrocities, his argument was that Israel cannot commit atrocities. It’s a sort of impossibility. There is at least one obvious reason the “IDF are the good guys” myth is so effective among Israeli Jews: for most, service in the Israeli military…

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

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…pending exorbitant amounts of money to build and maintain the most “lethal military in the world,” as Harris wants, if it’s just for show? Certainly, no one dares attack the most lethal military in the world, which is actually a deterrence, right? But what cost is too high when the US already spends upwards of $916 billion on its military? Trump on the other hand will make peace somehow just by talking with leaders (possibly because, according to…