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Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…for a meeting in Providence’s new Freemason-themed hotel, I got a surprise phonecall from Father Isaac, the cassocked gentle giant who serves as Eastern Orthodox chaplain there. We hadn’t known each other well while I was a student, but I’d always liked him. Upon hearing I was in town, he thought he’d ring me up, and what followed was certainly the longest conversation we’d ever had together. He wished me well, but much more, he thanked God in a d…

Niebuhrian Humility and DC Punditry

By Daniel Schultz

…uch of the post-modern critique of objectivity. Niebuhr was certainly critical of scientific or technical hubris. For him, it wasn’t possible to solve our way out of the world’s problems through better science or more scientific government. That’s the neo-orthodox piece of his argument, over and against the Christian liberalism that led us into World War I. But humility for Niebuhr was always a moral claim, not so much an assertion about our criti…

Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the ‘On-Demand’ God

By Anthea Butler

…his dabbling in the do-it-yourself exorcism movement. The senator’s political career, despite his vow to run for reelection, seems suspect. Then, when you consider the excitement sparked both by Sarah Palin’s exit from the governorship of Alaska (to pursue a higher calling) and the news that Bishop Thomas Weeks has found a new wife after beating and divorcing Juanita Bynum, one might surmise that Pentecostals and Charismatics are primed to take o…

Ted Haggard’s New Church: Gay-Friendly?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…oming from Haggard (the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals) who got caught in a sex and drugs scandal with a male prostitute in 2006. Since then, Haggard has been trying to rehab his image—claiming he’s a heterosexual with “homosexual attachments”—whatever that means. Now he calls sexuality “complex and confusing,” and swears his new church won’t be performing any gay marriages: We are a church and I believe that God’s ideal p…

Rapture Coming, Mark Your Calendars

By Lauri Lebo

…paign. To clarify, May 21 is not the actual end of the world, according to Camping’s WeCanKnow.com. Rather, that’s merely the day of the Tribulation and Christ’s return. The big day is Oct. 21, 2011. That’s the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” This is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment Day: On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside Alameda’s Veterans Memorial Building to await the r…

Are Scientists Ethical?

By Arri Eisen

…lasses ‘the ethical cracks’— the tiny fissures in the vast but fragile ethical scaffold that allows science to function—are already there. Skeptics of research ethics courses (of which there are far fewer now than when I started teaching them over a decade ago) scoff and say ‘you can’t teach ethics’. True, we can’t teach the few bad apples to be ethical, but we do make young scientists aware of what constitutes ethical behavior, how to identify an…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…n picketed Matthew’s funeral, holding signs expressing anti-gay, anti-American, and anti-Catholic slogans, including “God hates you” and “You’re going to hell.” Westboro Baptist Church also posted an essay on its Web site entitled “The Burden of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder.” In the essay, statements indicated that Albert and his wife “raised [Matthew] for the devil,” “RIPPED that body apart and taught Matthew to defy his Creator, to divorc…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…nts—on “WaffleGate,” the selling of boxes of “Obama Waffles” with a racist caricature of Obama, at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, see Chip Berlet’s post at Daily Kos titled “Obama Waffles Denounced but Conference Content Ignored” and Sarah Pulliam’s report at Christianity Today. Movie teasers: Billy: The Early Years of Billy Graham is coming to “select theaters across the country” starting October 10. Bill Maher’s Religulous (w…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…ab City, which is a forsaken piece of land out in the Colorado Desert near California’s Mexican border. People here say it’s the “last free place in America.” The site of a former military base, Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs on which campers park. The state owns the land, but does not maintain it and people live here for free. There is no water, electricity or septic. Most of the people only come in the cooler winter months. But…

Seek and Ye Shall Find… Anti-Gay Views

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y. As the Apostle Paul told the Corinthian in his first letter to them: we cannot say to the hand or the foot that we have no need of them. As one body—as one living, biologically human body on this earth regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, religious creed or whatever other boundary we draw between “us” and “them,” we cannot afford to cut ourselves off from each other in any way—not even when we use a search engine. It is this c…