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Graham Whistles “Dixie” on Morning Joe

By Anthea Butler

…na Peninsula in Alaska. Franklin also flew Sarah Palin around for her 2009 book tour, and regularly has the tail numbers of his planes blocked at Flightware.com. What does he have to hide? Franklin Graham’s appearances are coordinated to help out whichever Republican conservative candidate he perceives to be on top at any given time. Like his father, he wants to be the prayer partner of Presidents. But Franklin, frankly, is too crass for his own g…

Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point

By Cathleen Falsani

…hos to those seated in the front row a la the audience at one of watermelon-smashing comic Gallagher’s shows. Campolo is messy and unbridled. That is part of his vast appeal in a religious milieu that is too-often concerned with the appearance of perfection. In certain quarters of the Big Top tent that is evangelicalism in the United States, his passion for social justice (and for life in general) has been less than welcome. He is famous (or infam…

No Room for Non-Theists at Boston Interfaith Service

By Becky Garrison

…meant to strengthen our bonds, not widen divides. Also, Nathan Lean, Editor-In-Chief of Aslan Media, reflected on the role of humanists in responding to crisis situations: Goodness is not associated with God or religion exclusively. Atheists, like people of faith, come in all stripes and the large majority espouse the values of love, kindness, compassion, and pluralism. At a time when our nation grieves those lives lost in the Boston attacks, thei…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…unlawful federal authority but Alabama is not one of them,” Moore told the news site AL.com earlier this year. “A federal judge,” said Moore, “has no authority to overturn a state constitutional amendment in the face of a state court’s opinion on the same matter.” In February, when Moore’s Wallace-esque stance made news, he was supported by the Alabama Republican Party chair, Terry Lathan, who had just returned from a trip to Israel, which, he wro…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…tter’s done this to death, and then some. I’m less interested in the prayer-vs.-action debate itself, though, than in how it usefully frames another question: if not prayer, what? It’s easy to see that political leaders could be instituting meaningful reform of American gun laws. Closing the gun show loophole would be a start. So would strengthening background checks, cracking down on straw buyers, instituting a federal waiting period, and banning…

True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular

By Joseph Laycock

…it really isn’t hidden.” The problem with this defense is that there is a community of self-identified vampires, which existed long before Charlaine Harris wrote her first vampire novel (and many vampires actually do write blogs). Furthermore, HBO is aware of this community, and attempted to bring it into the viral marketing campaign. During my research for Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampires, I was shown a press release promoting Tru…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, the highest-security prison in the country, which the New York Times called “America’s Toughest Federal Prison.” Most inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement (similar to the practice Dwight fought against in the 1830s), and even visits with chaplains and psychiatrists come through the same door slit where food arrives. The facility was recently sued for its treatme…

Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…nity Foundation (no relation to TBN), which assisted Last Week Tonight’s researchers, has been exposing religious frauds for over three decades, such as televangelist Robert Tilton, whose mail-marketing scheme was exposed on Oliver’s show. While the televangelists receive the bulk of the media coverage, an examination of the finances of the now defunct Mars Hill Church reveals the prevalence of abuse in any church environment lacking adequate acco…

The Pope and the Culture Wars

By Patricia Miller

…On the eve of the Pope’s address to congress, RD Senior Correspondent Patti Miller spoke with NPR partner station KPCC about the effect on the culture wars of “[t]he most politicized pontiff in contemporary history.” https://soundcloud.com/religion-dispatches/papal-politics-how-pope-francis-stirs-the-culture-wars-in-dc…

Unbeknownst to Richard Dawkins the Feminist Revolution in Islam Has Already Begun

By Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

…ini, Azizah al-Hibri, and myself among many others. It also includes the on-the-ground efforts of organizations such as Musawah, Sisters in Islam, Karamah, and W.I.S.E. Muslim Women. These scholars, activists, and organizations have reinterpreted Qur’anic verses on women, men, gender, and sexuality; challenged laws that privilege men over women in areas such as marriage, divorce and inheritance; engaged in ritual practices to foster equality, such…