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Latest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty

By Sarah Posner

…th us. Tap your toes with us. And as Phil says, get “HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY.” Ticket prices range from $100 for an individual seat to $10,000 for a “Commander” table. Last year, Robertson’s homophobic remarks to GQ magazine, along with his assertion that blacks were “happy” before the civil rights era, caused a temporary suspension of Duck Dynasty by the A&E network, and an outcry of so-called persecution from the family’s conservative supporters. In…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…event’s multimillion dollar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art ins…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…ristian politicians who say that we want abortion to be rare but have voted 100% for live-birth abortion, partial-birth abortion,” Engle told reporters. “America is looking for a king, but what we need is a return to God.” Engle was lukewarm about McCain, but a few weeks later, after McCain tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate, Engle ramped up his support for the Republican ticket, likening Palin to the biblical Queen Esther who saved her people…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…w themselves to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on c…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…in bundled lumps of $100k+ over the past six months. For the price of the ticket the anonymous contributors get privileged access to senior campaign types who are likely to become senior White House appointees should Biden win. The proper name for this sort of thing is pay for play. It’s what assures wealth’s stranglehold over this so-called democracy for as far as the eye can see. You can disregard Biden’s public rhetoric about reining in the bi…

Is the Theologian an Antiquated Relic of a Dying Institution?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…the creation of a more just church and society was worth the price of the ticket. Yet two of the more interesting interventions came from Jack Fitzmier, Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion, and Tony Jones, an independent author, blogger and emerging church entrepreneur. Fitzmier challenged our very raison d’etre as academic theologians. In an era marked by faltering seminaries and divinity schools, limited graduate programs in…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ot (M.I.T. Press, 1963) We Are All Multiculturalists Now (Harvard U. Press, 1997) Moses and Monotheism (Vintage, 1955) Moses the Egyptian (Harvard U. Press, 1998) Like seventy million other people around the world, I watched the Joe Biden v. Sarah Palin vice presidential debate with some apprehension. I didn’t expect to learn anything new (about the issues or about each candidate), but the debate’s proximity to world events and an ever-expanding f…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…roup members—mostly disadvantaged, mostly Hispanic kids between the ages of 10 and 19—to see such a partisan film as part of their Bible study discussion on “justice.” When Chassé had first seen it, she had returned home from Teen Night with a barrage of accusations against President Obama, the candidate she had been planning to vote for this November. “Is it true that Obama’s trying to get rid of all of America’s nuclear weapons so that we are de…

SCOTUS Seems to Think You Should Be Forced to Pay For Religious Education

By John Stoehr

…exercise clause into a broadly applicable special rights provision. A free ticket for the religious to exempt themselves from federal and state laws—most importantly, public health and anti-discrimination laws. JS: Do these special rights provisions apply equally? The court is on a mission to remake free-exercise law. Not too long ago, it held that religious people and organizations could not claim special exemptions to generally applicable law so…

Race, Religion and the Colin Powell Endorsement

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e utterances are received by friend and foe alike with a certain torpor of spirit. It does not matter that there is very little connection between Senator Eastland’s utterances and the voting statistics of his home county: that of a population of 31,020 Negroes, 161 are registered to vote. Once the final break is made between language and reality, arguments generate their own force and lay out their own logical rules. The current syllogism goes so…