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Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…apps” including As One America, which contains the name, address and phone number of Christian neighbors “who are not showing up to vote or who are not registered.” He then showed a map with big red arrows pointing to precincts “within striking distance” from Vida Church to the precincts that are “where the devil’s got a stronghold that God wants to break up.” The app was developed by Superfeed Technologies, which has also designed apps for such c…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…picked up quickly and loaded the dishwasher, I said yes. Then I checked my phone. Like many people, I keep it on silent unless I’m expecting a call, so I missed a called from my youngest daughter. Instead she left a text message. It read: “your hajj packgat came” (sic) I burst out crying. So much so that my other daughter came forward and said, “What’s wrong?!” I couldn’t speak. I just showed her the text message and cried and hugged her. To her c…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…f unspeakable bigotry and thus unworthy of any serious attention. To their credit, TNR’s editors allow that, in addition to the old Ron Paul bigotry, it’s the current Ron Paul isolationism they really wish to anathematize. That’s good of them, I suppose. But what’s not so great is the “gotcha!” card they play with the old bigotry. They mean for it to function as a total dealbreaker. They mean for you and me not to give Paul’s admittedly off-center…

Religion and Violence? Short Answer: “Religion” Does Not Exist in a Vacuum

By Matt Recla

…on, it is the person behind the gun, and not the gun itself, that is given credit. This may indeed be because guns are often used on both sides of the transaction, both to commit crime and to stop it. But is it so different with religion? While religious leaders are quick to disavow any direct acts of violence, they are just as quick to claim acts of goodness. Christians, for example, credit their tradition for producing such influential individua…

Welcome to the RNC’s Elmer Gantry Tent Revival

By Paula Cooey

…which Aimee Semple McPherson’s performances were apparently made. To give credit where credit is due, however, Semple McPherson was not only quite sincere in her preaching, she actually provided her own material. The Trump convention is trading on a long-standing religious tradition structured by a drama of salvation from a quite vividly conjured hellfire and damnation (Hillary Clinton, “secular progressives,” etc.), a healing of one’s suffering…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…ward this newness, rather than “doing the sometimes tedious work of giving credit where credit is due.” Loncke and other mindfulness critics belong to an engaged Buddhist movement that itself is open to criticism for the appropriation of Buddhism, hitching the tradition to a progressive political agenda. “There’s nothing necessarily inherent in the Buddhist tradition that would lend itself to leftist politics,” said McMahan. “I’m sympathetic to en…

What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…et surfaced that would support these rumors. ISIS has not officially taken credit for what Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did. In the past they have praised individual acts that appeared to have been inspired by its ideology, such as the San Bernardino shootings, even if they were not directed by its organization. Initially, however, ISIS was silent. But the lack of clear connection between Lahouaiej-Bouhlel and ISIS has not deterred some of the ISIS followers…

So You Want to Write an Article Deflecting All Blame From Christianity: A Handy Guide

By Robert Repino

…ry “both sides” box, without which the article would be incomplete. To his credit, Wehner includes history professor Kristen Kobes Du Mez, who is willing to tie the toxic politics to Christology. But that’s as far as the criticism will go. Du Mez merely serves as cover, and gets completely ignored in Wehner’s sweeping conclusion. “Something has gone amiss,” he states. Yeah, something. And we’ll never find it by talking to the paid spokesmen for Ch…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…an, killed 20. The Amaq News Agency of ISIS said that the movement claimed credit. They also gave ISIS credit for attacks in Nigeria and in Egypt a few days before. Earlier in the year a group of Muslim separatists said to be associated with ISIS took over a town in Mindanao, the insurgent region of Southern Philippines, and controlled it for months in a stand-off with the Filipono army. And, of course, this past November a rented truck veered dow…

Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”

By Peter Laarman

…gned to hell, and whether God could possibly love queer people. All to his credit, I say. But back to the “America’s Pastor” thing: it’s just wrong in so many ways. Let’s try this simple test. Would a good pastor suck up to presidents and other powerful people, granting them general absolution despite their known crimes (and yes, here I am thinking primarily of Napalmer-in-Chief Lyndon Johnson and of Tricky Dick Nixon, the president with whom Grah…