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Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston

By Peter Manseau

…hymn will ever be the spiritual national anthem that “Amazing Grace” has become. All of which makes it particularly striking to consider that “Amazing Grace” is not one song, but many. More than most pieces of music, its meaning is dependent upon the context in which it is sung or heard. The American “Amazing Grace” spectrum runs from the painfully stilted (for example, when sung by Tom Netheron of the Lawrence Welk’s “Musical Family” ) to the ef…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…private communications I received regarding my recent post on evangelical reactions to Caitlin Jenner’s transition, I tweeted: https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/608641069195001856 LGBTQ homelessness and suicide are natural consequences of the perpetuation of views denying the full humanity of lesbian, gay, bi, pan, trans, queer, and all non-heteronormative individuals. Any theology rejecting their full affirmation is clearly tantamount to such d…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iday found that residents in ninety percent of 52 surveyed countries have become more accepting of homosexuality over the past 20 years. From a Daily Beast analysis of the report and another, “The Relationship between LGBT Inclusion and Economic Development: An Analysis of Emerging Economies,” produced by the Williams Institute in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development: What factors correlate with acceptance of sexual diver…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ver Rousseff by a margin of about 54 percent to 38 percent if the two face each other in a runoff on Oct. 26, as most expect. In a tight race, that could swing the result. Boadle writes that the growth of evangelical political power in Brazil has been compared to the rise of the Religious Right in the U.S. a few decades ago, but notes that Brazilian evangelicals have not widely adopted the Religious Right’s economic platform. “Silva and Rousseff b…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…omney and for Rick Santorum, mostly because Romney is for your kid’s male teacher wearing a dress and heels to school, and Santorum is for “social sanity.” Here’s the text of the robocall, via the website JewsandChristianstogether.org: Hi, my name is Brian Camenker; I’m a Jew from Massachusetts. And, this is Darcy Brandon; I’m a Christian from California. If you believe as we do that marriage and sexuality should only be between a man and a woman,…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…l, in less than a month since the Aurora shootings, two more killers have become eligible for the newsmaker list: Wade Michael Page, for an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on August 5; and Thomas Caffall, who laid siege to a College Station, Texas neighborhood this week. Neither senseless nor random As Caffall was taking the lives of three people and wounding two others across the street from the Texas A&M campus, Notre Dame profes…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…re Proceedings.” It made me think of Steve Munsey, an Indiana prosperity preacher I watched in a Decatur, Georgia television studio in 2007, pleading for audience members and viewers to give their money to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. As it turns out, the story is about Munsey’s church, Family Christian Center, which claims to have a weekly attendance of 15,000, making it one of the largest churches in the country. According to an investigati…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…, as Sarah Posner noted here. Yes, there is an additional historic Mormon teaching that the faithful will build a “New Jerusalem” on the American continent. It’s a belief that has not gotten much airtime during Church-wide General Conferences in recent years, which may be a signal that it is receding in its centrality from day-to-day faith practice. But it remains a part of the Mormon narrative of sacred history. 4. Mormons don’t like it when peo…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…against wimpy Christians who are more concerned about pastoral care than becoming an army of “warriors” dedicated to bringing about “kingdom rule” on the earth. Don’t despair if you can’t make it to Dallas, you can watch online starting at 7 p.m. Central. But if your kids really like candy, you can comfort yourself with the approach to Halloween taken by Mars Hill church, the authoritarian megachurch phenomenon associated with hipster homophobe M…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…smaller competitor. At the center of the storm is David Jang, a popular preacher in East Asia but a relatively unknown figure in the United States, who has ties to the late Rev. Moon’s Unification Church and, according to sources in a recent Christianity Today article, may have led his followers to conclude that he is a “Second Coming Christ.” The story begins, publicly at least, in mid-August when Christianity Today ran a long story co-authored…