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“Under God…It’s a Great Thing”: Trump Delivers for His Christian Base

By Diane Winston

…odist minister, began prayer breakfasts for the rich and powerful in 1930s Seattle. After years of serving the poor, Vereide decided that social change would more likely come from influencing politicians and businessmen. Vereide was so successful that he moved to Washington DC to set up prayer breakfasts for congressmen and other local leaders. In 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower was elected president, Vereide, his protégé Senator Frank Carlson, and e…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…ctor of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank that powers so much of the anti-evolution movement today. The Discovery Institute claims to be a non-religious organization, particularly when it’s taken to court over repeated attempts to revise public school science curricula. In a fundraising document leaked to the press a few years ago, though, the Institute shows a keen awareness of their work’s reli…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…dem, and Mark Driscoll (the disgraced former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle). Another branch of anti-feminist complementarians, Capitol Ministries, conducts a weekly Bible study in the White House. Ralph Drollinger, the founder, also teaches his doctrine in most of the state capitols and has plans to expand “throughout the world.” Interestingly, perhaps, Jeff Sessions attended Bible study with Drollinger the day before his ill-fated Romans…

Rage Against the Regime: Voices from the Iranian Underground Music Scene

By Austin Dacey

…rock band Kiosk, who started in a Tehran basement and have since landed in Seattle. “The old justification used to be that anything that promotes ‘decadent Western culture’ was considered a form of cultural attack against Islam from the West and therefore banned,” they told me. “Many bands who fused classical Persian poetry from Hafez and Rumi with rock music were denied permission to publish or perform because of the ‘temptation’ caused by their…

Scopes Redux DOA Pending Expert Input

By Lauri Lebo

…ould include, “Biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.” Scientists say the wording is a ploy to sneak creationism into science class. Once again, the bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. The bill is not yet officially dead, however. According to the Sentinel, “the Senate Education Committee wound up adjourning Wednesday night with some other…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…formed evangelical church planters that he co-founded, removed him and his Seattle based Mars Hill Church from the organization’s membership, and asked him to step down as a pastor. Following this news, Lifeway Christian Stores, the second largest distributor of Christian books, announced it will no longer carry his books, and Mars Hill cancelled their annual signature Resurgence Conference scheduled for October 2014. Driscoll continues to find hi…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…about “both sides” of controversial issues—most notably on evolution. The Seattle-based, pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute is behind efforts to introduce many of these bills and has proposed sample legislation for lawmakers to follow. Since the Louisiana bill was passed (making it the only state to have actually passed an academic freedom bill into law), proposed bills have included global warming and human cloning on the list of “contro…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…evention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, now the FaithTrust Institute, in Seattle, Washington, “a national, multicultural training and education organization with global reach working to end sexual and domestic violence.” It is the go-to place for work on religion and violence. Dr. Fortune’s book, Love Does No Harm, shows the strong influence of her professor and friend, Dr. Farley, who preached at her ordination and encouraged her to work toward…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…n the United States. I recently was barred from speaking in Archdiocese of Seattle. This has gone back since I entered the Jesuits in 1982, but it has gotten really bad in the last ten years as the Catholic Church leaders in the United States became more and more involved in the Republican Party, supporting the war in Iraq. Very few Jesuits espouse nonviolence either. We run 28 universities, all of whom train young people to kill through ROTC. The…

Atheist Asked By Wolf Blitzer If She Thanked the Lord After OK Tornado Honored

By Becky Garrison

…g her a “Grace Under Pressure” award, as well as giving her son a toy microphone. In her talk and subsequent interview, she debunked Time columnist Joe Klein’s assertion that humanists did not contribute to the Oklahoma disaster relief efforts. However, she compared the lack of organized humanist organizations and secular groups like the Red Cross working on the ground to the clearly identified Christian groups who could be spotted sifting through…