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Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…ionary conferences, US visitors were flown in to teach the missionaries about ‘a new cutting-edge paradigm’ for mission… The new paradigm entailed that missionaries had to ‘identify’ and ‘bind territorial spirits’ and ‘unleash’ divine power. Evangelism was to be preceded by ‘prayer walks,’ and prayer was considered best if done geographically ‘on-site,’ within a ‘target area.’ Prayer became the identification of and confrontation with demons… All…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…ely, I don’t remember who I was talking to or what the conversation was about, but all at once I understood and it felt great. Yet my childhood belief had provided protection for me and had given shape to my understanding of God and even of myself, and what did I have to replace it with? Nothing at first, and that was a little disorienting and scary. But I got through it and have since passed through many more sloughings-off of closely-held ideas….

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…re struggling to determine how worried they should be and how to take precautions without stoking anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim fervor.” Meanwhile, progressive advocates for LGBT equality are struggling with how to deal with the plight of LGBT refugees and with the reality that many immigrants from Muslim countries bring anti-gay attitudes with them. One advocate said “he believed it was unrealistic ‘to take someone from a culture where [homosexua…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…n’t come empty-handed,” he warns. In other words, give. The audience is shouting out praise, and people are filling out their envelopes. This seems far-fetched on television, but in person, many people are having genuine spiritual experiences. Munsey is working them up, and they are being milked for their money while in a euphoric state. Suggested donation for the Passover offering: $70 a month for ten months. Phone it in, and tell the operator it…

A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…cestry and culture, and if you don’t believe in God you’re probably okay, but if you believe that Jesus was the messiah, forget about it, except when you’re dealing with some of the ultra-Orthodox, and also with the very-non-Orthodox, who might be cool with you because Messianic Jews have convinced them it’s all okay—which at some level might actually be Talmudically accurate… except that it’s apostasy. Got it? Me neither. But that’s exactly the p…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…and the Verfassungsschutz (Federal office for the protection of the constitution)—a number three times higher than under the previous administration’s report. The latest report also details ties to the Reichsbürger milieu. Experts attribute the stark rise in numbers to a heightened awareness and the agencies’ attempts to reduce the number of unreported cases. The conservative Minister of the interior of the previous Merkel administration, Horst Se…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…the early afternoon, cameras in hand. It is not uncommon for tourists to out*]}*number monks in the debate courtyards during this time. This is obviously disruptive, making a spectacle out of a serious educational pursuit. Monastic response to the Chinese government policy of limiting monastic enrollments is at least in part the result of a clash between the secular, materialist, security-concerned worldview of the Chinese state, and the religious, t…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…y Museum In this telling, the internet was not a unique “Columbus” event, but an evolution dependent on the shrinking size and growing capacity of computers. Walking through the Computer History Museum it’s not likely that religious concepts will press to the front of your mind. The marvel is in the human ingenuity to create such machines and work out their possible uses. The point of view presented by Herzog is more closely related to that of the…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…to sustain that kind of growth in the long term, according to the report. But statistics about religion switching (aka “sheep stealing” in some traditions) sound more nefarious than they are as the switching doesn’t actually alter the global numbers very much. If you subtract “switching” from the report’s calculations, over the next 40 years, the Christian population is only projected to grow by one percent (from 31% to 32% of the global populatio…