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By His Wounds We Have Already Been Entertained: Tiger Woods, The Masters, and the Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace

By Dan Mathewson and Trina Jones

…so members are a who’s who of corporate power and old money,” according to USA Today. It is “an old boys club… [whose members] come mainly from the country’s old-line industries: banking and finance, oil and gas, manufacturing and distributing.” In a sport that battles its image as elitist, white, and country club-ish, Augusta National stands proudly and defiantly as the beacon of golf’s glory days of yore—a sport that white gentlemen played on th…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…rica great again. This is the vision he calls for: the QAnon Reich, the thousand year millennial kingdom—the Klan’s Kingdom. “Dismantle the deep state.” “Demolish woke tyranny.” “Restore the American republic,” in a way that hearkens back to a “glorious past” that is very much the era of the Second Klan. How can you tell? It’s law and order rhetoric tacked onto The Ending—“make America safe again,” the Southern Strategy as apocalyptic promise. CPA…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…nt who’s currently in the ordination process with the Presbyterian Church (USA), notes: Religious viewpoints and attitudes affect how people interpret and interact with medicine, politics, neighbors, and money. At a macro level, religious views influence geopolitical relationships and trade relationships…Theology is an oft-neglected but invaluable vantage point from which to look at our past and current relationships… Broad theological questions…

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…ners’ response “deeply unsatisfying”), comes this statement from Integrity USA, challenging “Jim Wallis and Sojourners to live up to their own mission statement and to walk the talk of social justice they purport to embody.” The statement continues: [I]t is incomprehensible to us that they would decline to run an ad that quite simply depicts a pastor modeling for his congregation that “all are welcome” as a lesbian couple and their son visit the…

Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously

By Chrissy Stroop

…foreign policy step of moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem because of evangelicals’ extreme beliefs about “biblical prophecy.” To be sure, some prominent evangelical leaders like R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, have engaged in handwringing about the matter of Trump’s “character,” although others, like First Baptist – Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress and President of the Billy Graham Eva…

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

…ble predicts a military confrontation with Iran. By then, Hagee’s book, Jerusalem Countdown, had sold nearly 500,000 copies. It had occupied the No. 1 position on the Wal-Mart inspirational best-seller list, showed up on Wal-Mart’s list of top 10 best sellers for seven weeks, and made the USA Today top 50 best-seller list for six weeks. Hagee, who serves as head pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, hosts his own te…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ip by non-celibate gays. Anglicans: Archbishop of Canterbury: Gay Marriage = Death for Christians Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the Anglican Communion, said that if the Church of England accepts same-sex marriage, it will lead to the killing of Christians in Africa. Speaking on an LBC phone in, Justin Welby said he had stood by a mass grave in Nigeria of 330 Christians who had been massacred by neighbours w…

The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring ‘In God We Trust’ Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection

By Andrew L. Seidel

…the gallows they erected at the Capitol. “In God We Trust,” “God Bless the USA,” “Hang for treason,” and “Amen.” In God We Trust gallows from January 6th Insurrection. Image: Tyler Merbler/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) But the link between the January 6th insurrection and these In God We Trust display laws is more intimate than a few overlapping mentions suggest. The drive to display In God We Trust in public schools was lifted right out of the Christian Nat…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…, at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, thousands of nuns gathered for their special time with John Paul II. Some stood silently during his remarks wearing blue armbands to signal their support of women’s ordination. It was all quite genteel, including Theresa’s historic remarks delivered calmly without rancor or regret: As I share this privileged moment with you, Your Holiness, I urge you to be mindful of the inten…

Why Hillary Clinton is Truly Unelectable

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…been obvious. The current president Bush brought into his inner circle any number of central figures from his father’s previous tenure as president. Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense under the first Bush, became Vice President. Former Secretary of State James Baker helped him win his case essentially to cancel a re-count and thus be declared the winner against Al Gore; he has served repeatedly to put a sober face on policies and strategic decision…