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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…a’s auto-da-fé came not only in the comments section, but in nasty emails, phone calls, and demands for his firing from Messiah College. As he discovered, the culture wars are real, and practiced even on those (like Fea) who largely have been critical of Obama’s actual implementation of his promises about faith-based policies. More important than these blogosphere wars, however, is understanding something deeper about these screeds about Obama as…

Romney, Tisha B’Av, and LDS Temples

By Sarah Posner

…les of the restored Church were built in Ohio, Illinois, and eventually in Utah. Today, the Church has 138 operating temples around the world. Regardless of the place or time period, temples are the most sacred place on earth-a place where earth and heaven meet and where we feel close to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. For Mormons, their temples are “as sacred as Solomon’s temple.” This video has more: As Gorenberg explains in his seminal bo…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…arly fly one or the other of their two expensive jets and other airplanes around the world, including regular trips to their multi-million chalet-style mansion in Steamboat Springs, Colo. • Tony Palmer, a former employee of Copeland, is ordained with the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches (CEEC), a small offshoot unrelated to the main Episcopal denomination. The CEEC also ordained Gene Ewing, creator of St. Matthew’s Churches, who for dec…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…nage to escape into it enough to imagine yourself getting up and spinning around like a Sufi, you don’t see what’s around you at the moment. The contextual misogyny endemic to almost any music of the ’60s drops away. You don’t see tie dye, or skulls, or swirling skirts. You see a vision of something else. Sufi Dervishes spin to “testify to God’s existence, unity, majesty and power.” Deadheads spin to see what they can of Utopia, Heaven, Paradise….

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…concrete slabs and illegally tapped into an adjacent power line for electricity. They dug into the ground and connected to the city’s water supply to have drinking water and dug a pit for a latrine. With television and a refrigerator, they managed to create a viable living space. The residents of Erbil were remarkably tolerant—sympathetic, really—to the situation of such impromptu refugee camps, and the refugees in vacant lots received hand-outs a…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ange the term “man and woman” to “two parties” in the article concerning marriage and the term “father and mother” to “parents” in the Civil Code. Philippines: Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Passes Quezon City Council The city council of Quezon City unanimously approved an anti-discrimination ordinance this week, expanding a law from 2003 that banned anti-gay housing discrimination. …

A Life After Death Double-Feature: Eastwood’s Hereafter and Noe’s Enter the Void

By Jay Michaelson

…of seeing many. It’s not like 2001 or A Clockwork Orange, films which are “trippy” in style or genre—it actually is a psychedelic trip. Noe uses strobe effects and other visual techniques to place the viewer in an altered state of consciousness—when my friend and I emerged onto the street, blinking, we realized we’d been tripping for two hours. Enter the Void is told from the point of view of a young man, Oscar, who dies five minutes into the film…

Why Did the Pope Choose Cuba?

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ost important question of all: Why did the Pope decide to visit Cuba? This trip is Benedict XVI’s first, and many say only, visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America, where the majority of Catholics live. The choice of Mexico, with the second-largest Catholic population globally, seems obvious. What isn’t obvious is the decision to visit this island nation where Catholicism has struggled for the past 50 years. The answer is found in the verb tense….

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…havior,” and “propensity for protest reactions.” A few months after the DC trip, both Hilarion and Kirill endorsed a regional meeting in Moscow hosted by the US-organized World Congress of Families, an international conservative network dedicated to defending traditional values and the “natural family.” In his comments, Hilarion echoed the goals from the DC trip, advocating for “a strategic alliance of Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and tradition…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…t has been broadcast as part of an effort “to uplift impoverished people” around the world. But such heroism is hypocritical. Theroux writes, I found towns in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas that looked like towns in Zimbabwe, just as overlooked and beleaguered… Big companies have always sought cheaper labor, moving from North to South in the United States, looking for the hungriest, the most desperate, the least organized, the m…