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GOP Candidate for PA Governor Affiliated with Far-Right Gun Church, ‘Rod of Iron Ministries’ — Here’s an Annotated Sermon by Leader Sean Moon

By Thomas Lecaque

…n, and while Mastriano, Daniels and others were actively courting their support. All annotated words, phrases, and passages are in red. See the corresponding annotation in the right sidebar. – eds May 27, 2021, Rod of Iron Ministries Good morning folks, just remember a recap of Habakkuk Chapter 3,1 and this is where he’s warning about Babylon the whole three chapters exist under Habakkuk prophet. Babylon the Chaldeans are coming to destroy Israel….

Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji

By John W. Morehead

…violence. In two RD posts, one from March 18 and another from March 22, Murali Balaji argues that the attacks were rooted in white Christian nationalism. But is Balaji defining Christian nationalism correctly, and is it the best way to characterize Tarrant’s ideological narrative? I will argue below that the answer is “no” to both questions. To the question of defining Christian nationalism, there is a helpful body of academic research in politica…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ach $119.1 billion annually. Hannah Harris Green reports on the ongoing legal flight of LGBT refugees, taking note of a recent decision by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit that an immigration judge had erred in refusing to acknowledge an asylum seeker’s transgender identity. The article touches on those seeking asylum in Canada, Australia, and Europe. An excerpt: This decision means that transgender immigrants who fight their cases in…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…mous event came to a head in the last few weeks as the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery caved under well-placed protests to remove David Wojnarowicz’s artwork, A Fire in My Belly from the NPG’s exhibition, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” The story has been well-trod in all the major press outlets, while blog blitzes from the right and street-level protests from the left have all but obscured any actual artwork th…

Ex-Gay Org Loses Tax-Exempt Status

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Lifeway for the Southern Baptist Convention, that shows 64% say it’s “inevitable” that marriage equality will be the law of the land one day soon. Majorities also believe that “homosexuality is a civil rights issue,” and that landlords and rental halls should not be able to discriminate against gays and lesbians. The worst finding, though, for ex-gay organizations seeking to “pray away the gay” is this one: ”More Americans do not believe homosexu…

Sotomayor is Sworn in: Latina Wisdom Personified

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…rting/concert venue to hear a mass in her honor, for there is no church in Miami big enough to house her devotees. Hers is the story of a statue discovered by two indigenous men and an African slave, and later accompanying a slave community in Cuba. Her statue still remains in a shrine in Cuba, and a duplicate accompanied Cubans into exile here in the United States. She is the most powerful symbol of Cuban religious and cultural identity both on t…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…macy and white nationalism at the root of Confederate civil religion. The rally also set up a situation where President Trump’s refusal to directly condemn white supremacism could be read as tacit support for swastika-flag-bearing celebrants of Hitler and his ill-fated Reich calling for the end of the United States. “No condemnation at all,” the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer said of Trump’s reaction, adding, “God bless him.” Many of the rally’s architect…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…ree-year Master of Divinity degree and passing grades on five grueling denominational exams. For aspiring celebrants there’s a much easier route: an online ordination from the Universal Life Church or one of its imitators. The Universal Life Church has been around for longer than there’s been an Internet: since 1959, to be exact. In the early years, it was an open secret that many customers tried to use their mail-order ordinations as a tax dodge….

The Evangelical “Plummet” from Francis Schaeffer to Glenn Beck

By Sarah Posner

…necessity, been nuanced enough to put us sometimes at odds with our political allies), we’ve relied on populist God-and-country sloganeering and outrage-generating talking heads. We’ve tolerated heresy and buffoonery in our leadership as long as with it there is sufficient political “conservatism” and a sufficient commercial venue to sell our books and products. That’s a harsh indictment not just of Beck, but of the religious right environment tha…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…cation, and the concomitant “dedication to both spiritual practices and temporal obedience,” Butler looks at how belief shaped these women’s understanding of self, community, and God, enabling them to “negotiate for and obtain power” in ways that defied expectations for women of their race and station. Butler writes concisely and accessibly, telling stories of women you will be glad to have met. * * * My USC colleague Josh Kun is co-author with Ro…