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Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…ock fan, we stuck out because we didn’t know the words and remained in our seats. Here’s another detail that struck me as being really strange: after the bands finished playing, there was a sermon (I remember it was about Princess Diana, which was odd because she had died a year before). During the sermon, the crowd was quiet and attentive—except for the girl in our section who was returning to her seat with a big plate of nachos. It’s interesting…

New Study: Jews More “Spiritual” Less Ancestral

By Benjamin Weiner

…hasn’t been seen in the Jewish world since the first pages of the book of Numbers. And the reasons are similar. After the harrowing experiences of genocide and immigration, we find ourselves straggling through a new wilderness; anxious to know whether or not our demographics portend survival. But for the metaphor to be complete, we would have to imagine Moses, Aaron, and the elders, sitting under God’s cloud in the tent of meeting, asking each ot…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rd G. Lugar, a Republican.” As Obama sets about filling a host of judicial seats in courts across the country, will liberals and progressives fight just as hard for his nominees as the religious right has fought for Reagan and Bush I & II’s nominees? Will the religious right wage an all-out war against each and every nominee, or will it hold its fire (if not its rhetoric) for the big battles; nominees to the US Supreme Court? Stay tuned. +++++++++…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

…uence over the state’s Republican Party, but now it controls a majority of seats on the central committee. Grassley, who was first elected to the United States Senate in 1980 with the help of Religious Right activists, had submitted what should have been a routine request to be seated with the state party’s delegation. He is the ranking member of the Finance Committee and the fifteenth-highest ranking member of the entire Senate. Grassley would ha…

Debating Death: Is It Really the End?

By Angela Bonavoglia

…h is not final. Last week, four scientific big thinkers settled into their seats on stage at NYC’s Kaufmann Center to debate this provocative proposition for NPR’s Intelligence Squared. They would be discussing this proposition from a purely scientific, not a religious point of view, wrestling with the fundamental question of whether or not consciousness is totally contingent on a functioning human brain. And if it is not, so the logic goes, then…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…native Holland.” The Islamic Party for Unity will be contending for three seats in the upcoming municipal elections on March 19. Doorn says it was ‘only logical’ for Muslims to have political representation. “Our standpoints are based on the Islam. We come up for minorities and the welfare of animals,” he said. Asked about what his party’s stance would be on homosexuals, Doorn said that all acts of affection in general were private affairs and th…

Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…ities to eye the season warily and to try to shoo everyone back into their seats. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise. After all, “lightening up” has really never been the Church’s thing. Not for nothing, many would say that it’s a perennial challenge for Christians to reconcile the claims (and cultural narratives) of faith and those of their surrounding communities in any age. In that sense, when Kirk Cameron or the Jesus Ween proponents offer c…

We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory

By John Stoehr

…y in making the accusation stick. The party could lose as many as 10 House seats in swing districts while keeping its majority. Already, Democrats are blaming “socialism.” So are some pundits who really ought to know better but don’t, because it’s convenient not to. Fact is, Trump is to blame. He was at the top of the ticket. But by running away from “socialism,” they are giving credence to the accusation, making it more real and more powerful tha…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…ple who passed them didn’t really mean what they were doing. (They did.) A number of others have expressed a similar view, like the panelists in a recent discussion hosted by Georgetown University who lamented the moral “compromises” that anti-abortion activists have made. Others, like Religion News Service columnist Charles C. Camosy, have—either naively or disingenuously—called on the movement to move past Trump, as though the movement could eas…

‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…was sparse on Thursday morning—maybe 300 people in total. As we choose our seats, volunteers usher us to the front section “for the cameras and for the security.” Speaking of security, armed law enforcement lurk in the hallways and at the entrances, guns at hips. Tony Perkins welcomes Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to the stage who rails against “rogue local governments” and federal overreach, leaving attendees with little recourse but to trust in Ke…