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The Oil Spill and “Real Deathliness”

By Daniel Schultz

…pin the blame on greedy executives or incompetent engineers or Obama or who-the-hell-ever we turn into today’s whipping boy. But the truth that everyone wants to deny is that the whole culture is sick from top to bottom. We’re all addicted to oil in ways we can’t even grasp, and nobody—nobody—has any plausible idea of how to break free from the system. There are plenty of ideas floating around, yes, but there are no easy answers to put into practi…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…Protestant population of Haiti is somewhere around thirty percent. In Port-au-Prince that number jumps to almost forty percent. The majority of these churches are Pentecostal. These churches are overwhelmingly independent, indigenous Haitian entities, though some are linked to North American denominational Pentecostal churches. Haiti, along with Jamaica and Puerto Rico, is home to one of the fastest growing Pentecostal populations in the Caribbea…

“Biblical” Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…Protestant population of Haiti is somewhere around thirty percent. In Port-au-Prince that number jumps to almost forty percent. The majority of these churches are Pentecostal. These churches are overwhelmingly independent, indigenous Haitian entities, though some are linked to North American denominational Pentecostal churches. Haiti, along with Jamaica and Puerto Rico, is home to one of the fastest growing Pentecostal populations in the Caribbea…

GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…s, and that labeling would require further definition of terms “GM” and “GM-free.” These supposed concerns about labeling have not stopped the European Union from adopting mandatory labeling. As a result, consumer choice is enhanced and can be based on more thoroughly informed decision-making at an individual level. Most people do not object to labels such as “kosher” or “halal.” Why should another label that aids in personally ethical purchasing…

The Arab, the Feds and the Flood: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun Rescues America

By Haroon Moghul

…un (known to friends and family as “Zeitoun”), a charming can-do contractor-cum-entrepreneur who seems to know nothing but the dignity of work and the help of all. He is the American dream come true, an immigrant everyman who happens to have a funny name, a hero whose appearance and accent make him suspect, a lover of the sea who sees off his charming family to face down the hurricane. It is, unfortunately, in Zeitoun’s nature to be unafraid of na…

Funding of Creationist Organizations Doubles

By Lauri Lebo

…percent of the $22.7 million AIG brought in in 2008. Also, an interesting newcomer to watch is GodQuest, founded by Eric Hovind, the son of Kent “Dr. Dino” Hovind, the disgraced creationist currently residing in federal prison for tax fraud and creator of the DVD series Why Evolution is Stupid. In 2008, the organization, also known as Creation Science Evangelism, brought in more than $931,000 in sales and donations. The Seattle-based Discovery In…

Miss Conception: Donald Trump the (Self-Styled) Devil?

By Miss Conception

…when accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, “the ruler of demons,” Jesus answers, “How can Satan cast out Satan?” He follows up with, “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man…” (Mark 3:24, 27), a reference to Jesus as the one who vanquishes or plunders the devil by casting out demons. And lest we consider this identification of strength—of brute force—with sin and evil as simply…

Response: Is Proselytizing Offensive? Sure. But I Won’t Give Them the Satisfaction of Martyrdom

By Peter Laarman

…it offensive? I hope not. What I absolutely never do is peddle false faith-centered comfort to bereaved or traumatized people. To me there’s a bright red line in such cases. When others try to convert me, I usually try to deflect it by saying “I’m in the business—you’re wasting your time.” When they persist (and they often do, when they discover that I’m actually an apostate in cleric’s garb), I still try to keep it light. What I don’t want to do…

Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

…evangelist Billy Graham, who sought new ways to bring a conservative, anti-communist form of Christianity to the masses, and J. Howard Pew, scion of a prominent oil family seeking a platform to sell American Christians on libertarian economics. As a CT production attempting to reckon with problems within evangelicalism itself, RFMH offers us a window on what evangelicals view as problems and as solutions to what confronts their movement, as well…

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…blessing from the Lord.” Finally, in a reference to the importance of woman-to-woman mentoring within the conservative church, they affirmed that “mature Christian women” are obliged to disciple the next generation of Christian wives, training them in matters of submission and headship, in order to provide a legacy of “fruitful femininity.” The speakers at the conference were the A-list of complementarian celebrities: Pastor John Piper, Christian…