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Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…r of the wave of these movements. As global capitalism began to make middle-class life more and more comfortable, something was needed shake people out of their settled religious ways. Human effort, to the point of imperilment of one’s own body, was required for someone to become a modern day saint. Elliot stirred many, as she told about the extreme measures the mission field required. Being a missionary—bringing the message of Jesus Christ to all…

Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…cal difference” between Indiana’s RFRA and the federal statute is that the new Indiana law “would allow for-profit businesses, employees and individuals—basically anyone—to assert a legal claim or defense of free exercise of religion in a legal proceeding, regardless of whether the government is a party to the proceeding. This is virtually without precedent.” (emphasis mine) Pence, though, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday, repeated his cla…

Its the Spiritual Economy, Stupid: Why the Gay Marriage Fracas Isn’t About Either

By Nick Street

…ized in California.” That carefully crafted handful of words—as thoroughly test-marketed as a Viagra commercial—represents the latest in a decades-long series of efforts by religious conservatives to thwart the steady advance of public acceptance of gays and lesbians into the mainstream of American life. According to an analysis of polling data published by CBS News, Americans are becoming more “gay friendly” at a rate of about one percent a year….

In OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative

By Joseph Laycock

…reveal more about ourselves than the killers. The day before Halloween, 21-year-old Isaiah Marin of Stillwater, Oklahoma, murdered his 19-year-old friend, Jacob Crockett—nearly decapitating him with a machete. He turned himself in, rambling to the dispatcher about “magic and sacrifice.” The narrative that eventually formed was that Marin had been motivated by “strong Christian beliefs” and that he had attacked his friend for practicing witchcraft…

Creationism v. Integrationism

By Arri Eisen

…d me that when he encounters something that disagrees with his beliefs, he tests the new idea with logical evidence and approaches, and then if it holds up, he accepts it. This is what the Dalai Lama means when he says that if modern science presents good evidence that a Buddhist idea is wrong, he will accept the modern science (he gives the example of the Earth moving around the sun, which runs counter to Buddhist scripture). Perhaps creationists…

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

By Peter Laarman

…good pastor reinforce a parishioner’s Jew-hatred, as Graham clearly did vis-a-vis Nixon (although he later claimed that he forgot saying these appalling things)? So ixnay on “America’s Pastor.” I don’t even want to give Graham credit for being “America’s Preacher.” Calling him that would be an insult to earlier figures who really knew how to use a pulpit: Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Ward Beecher, etc., as well as to Graham-contemporary preache…

Toward a Zombie Theology

By John W. Morehead

…ntists, philosophers, and theologians alike. Perhaps if more theologians become comfortable with engaging the texts of popular culture, including the fantastic genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, then we might discover examples of what Peter Berger called “signals of transcendence,” windows into the divine or the sacred in the mundane things of life. Who knows? With the burgeoning field of religion and popular culture, perhaps the futu…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…rsity, said that Trump’s speech “will go down in history as one of the greatest commencement speeches ever.” This year’s speaker was Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. On Saturday the Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age. Carter and the Falwell family have had an uneasy relationship over the…

Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…a civil union law—that way they are legally covered. I supported that.” I highly recommend the film—the theology less so, though it’s all worth discussing. The most astonishing aspect of what’s now a global conversation on theology and civil unions—Elton John thanked the Pope, and Cardinal Raymond Burke expressed expected horror—is that it’s based on scant data. That’s clue Number One that the topic is ripe for conversation and that people of var…

‘Anti-Zionism = Antisemitism’ isn’t Just Wrong, It’s the Problem

By Shaul Magid

…ne concept, the denial of rights of one people.” Really? I have a shelf of books to recommend. And he defines antisemitism pretty much according to the IHRA definition (which wasn’t even written to be adopted, but to be used as a working paper for discussion). And herein lies the problem. To begin with, his declaration that “Anti-Zionism is predicated on one concept, the denial of rights of one people,” illustrates a deep misrepresentation of vari…