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Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

…a “violent and vicious temper” exhibited towards his first wife, Dabara S. Houston. Meanwhile, Bishop Long was left to address the issue before his Sunday congregation at New Birth, and a gathering of protesters holding “Bishop Long must go” signs in front of his Atlanta megachurch. According to the blog PimpPreachers.com, a group of protesters were “Occupying New Birth” and demanding that Long leave the church he has pastored since 1997. At its…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…ristianity in college. He would go on to study apologetics and theology at Houston Baptist University as well as Southwestern and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminaries. Haunted by his fatherless childhood, Baucham says, he is now motivated “to train a generation to follow hard after God in spite of what their forefathers have done.” But Baucham isn’t interested in promoting family in general. He has a very specific family type in mind. Put s…

Ted Cruz’s McCarthyism and the Christian Right

By Sarah Posner

…“was raised a Christian and came to Christ at Clay Road Baptist Church in Houston. In terms of political views, I’m a plain and simple conservative: I’m a fiscal conservative, I’m a social conservative. I think there are absolute truths about what is right and about what works.” In the postscript of his book, Noebel asserts that Schwarz “greatly influenced the newly rising conservative movement that ultimately produced leaders” including Ronald R…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…NAR figures staged an unprecedented prayer rally of some 30,000 people in Houston to launch Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s 2012 campaign. Even the octogenarian C. Peter Wagner traveled from Colorado to attend. Another common mishap is to characterize various apostles and prophets as “self-appointed” or “self-anointed.” In fact, in the networks established by Wagner, there is a process of mutual recognition of apostolic and prophetic leadership, as peopl…

#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…. Last year he participated in a protest of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston because, in the words of organizer Lou Engle, it would “target minorities for abortion.” (Engle refers to legislation he disagrees with as “Antichrist legislation.”) While others, such as Obama adviser Joel Hunter, may be still advocates for “common ground,” their efforts have been resoundingly overshadowed by increasingly vocal and successful anti-abortion activist…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…rally, I met James Antoine, a 36-year-old Wal-Mart pharmacy employee from Houston, who “told me he spent a week at the Kansas City IHOP, where young people pray around the clock, which he called ‘powerful and life-changing.’” IHOP, he told me, “stirs young people” and “keeps them continuously alert about the end-times. So they can’t be distracted because they’re continuously being bombarded by the preaching of the end-times so it’s continuously o…

Is Ken Starr ‘Pulling a Clinton’ on Jewish Studies Professor Marc Ellis?

By Kiera Feldman

…when Starr presided over a mock Supreme Court session at the University of Houston.) A fifth generation Texan who paid his college tuition by very successfully selling bibles door-to-door (“He was so personable and so likable,” remembered a co-salesman), Starr has returned home to the Lone Star state. At Baylor University, on the banks of the Brazos River, on a campus endowed with its own bear sanctuary, Judge Starr reigns supreme. In all likeliho…

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

…the “secular world is nicer.” (Read the whole thing here.) Meanwhile, the Houston Chronicle reports, “Reliant Park officials have said they planned a ‘small arena configuration’ the would accommodate about 10,000 people.” That’s a fraction of the 70,000 person capacity of Reliant Park that Perry and friends first envisioned, and event organizers are now emphasizing how the event will be simulcast in churches across the country. Perry may end up p…

Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…he Mankind Project’s all-male New Warrior Training Adventure, which as the Houston Press reported, includes beating cooked chickens with hammers, naked blindfolded nature walks, and dancing naked around a fire. (Wyler’s bio says he was a staff member at Mankind Project for several years. One of the exercises at JiM involved us saying the words “as a man among men” and then stating a personal affirmation.) In 2007, Throckmorton asked Wyler about an…

“Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy” (Unless You’re Gay)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ard time taking his own advice to interviews. When he’s up on stage at his Houston megachurch, it’s all joy and abundance and, well, betterness. But when he’s on the other end of the microphone, being asked questions about homosexuality, you can see the discomfort wash over him. The ladies on The View cornered him on the subject back in 2009, and his evasive answer was that homosexuality was not “God’s best” for such people. He retreated to the ti…