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Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…a convenient place to test his car bombs. And then there is the matter of dates. McVeigh was fixed on the day of April 19, the anniversary of the Waco siege. Breivik chose July 22, which was the day in 1099 that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was established during the First Crusades. The title of Breivik’s manifesto, which was posted on the internet on that day, is “2083”—the date Breivik suggested would be the culmination of a 70-year war that began…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…” who has become a “leader of a mighty multitude.” The Beck-Hagee alliance dates back years, too, with Beck hosting the televangelist on his CNN program in 2007 to answer “honest questions” about whether “the apocalypse is almost upon us.” The Hagee-Beck-Lieberman series of stunts is aimed at two audiences: Israel hawks who want to derail whatever shreds remain of a peace process, and biblical literalists who view all these events through the pris…

Rapture Theology as Cultural Critique: What Camping’s Prediction Tells Us About Ourselves

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…like it, is notable not for the special knowledge about specific times and dates, but rather for collective doubt about what is known or can be known—something that moderns (or post-moderns, depending on the company you keep) do not handle particularly well. By revealing concrete details about what is simultaneously unknown and of ultimate concern (death and what lies beyond), these rhetorics touch on people’s vulnerabilities and all-too-familiar…

Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…rm letters which Tea Partiers are asked fill in and send on the prescribed dates. The three letters include an initial letter and follow-up letter to school board members and superintendents, as well as a letter to local media. In addition to informing officials and the media about the legal requirement that public schools teach about the Constitution during Constitution Week each year, the letters demand to know what curricula materials will be u…

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…des in Salt Lake City, Boise, and other cities for the first time in large numbers, carrying banners that read “Mormons Building Bridges” (MBB). Donning Sunday attire and holding signs with messages of love, MBB forbade signs that criticized Church teachings—namely the notion that same-sex intimacy is a sin. Erika Munson, the founder of MBB, has assured me that the marches were a grassroots affair not in any way directed by Church leaders, but giv…

Reconstructionists Celebrate “Ruling Over the Earth” Day

By Julie Ingersoll

…ay. Bishop Eugene Robinson suggested, for example, that the coincidence of dates might be Divine Providence, and many have reflected on the significance of the Easter season for concern over renewal of planet earth. Celebrating Earth Day seems entirely compatible with this understanding of stewardship. One might expect that the opponents of earth day are mostly in the first camp, (indifferent to the earth) but in fact, they are not. They do, howev…

Sarah Palin to Tour Israel, Christian-Style

By Anthea Butler

…inuing to take events that are either religious, patriotic, or pay-to-play dates, Palin can still suck all of the media air out of the room without declaring her intent, while her followers can organize underneath the eyes of the media glare. Whatever Palin does on her Israel trip will be a signal to her supporters and detractors alike. No matter what the pollsters may say, this trip will be an important step in the reading of the tea leaves for a…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…n of Labor, and even the IWW attracted significant religious allies. Large numbers of clergy and religiously-based lay activists rallied behind the industrial union surge of the 1930s. Yale Divinity School’s Liston Pope became a national labor advocate during the ’30s and ’40s. The Brothers Niebuhr and the Brothers Reuther spoke pretty much the same language—and I don’t mean German. During the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights heroes like King and Hes…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…was also a Larry Norman song released in 1972. The actual saying, however, dates to a Methodist clergyman in England named Rowland Hill. So the concerns about the power of culture go back farther than the past forty years. Why do you think heavy metal and rock music became such a focal point for ways that Christians could break into secular culture? Aren’t other types of secular media just as influential? Music wasn’t the only way that evangelical…

Mike Pence, the Anti-Huckabee

By Sarah Posner

…appeal. And they believe the rest of the field features has-beens or candidates insufficiently pure on cultural issues. While Huckabee doesn’t fall into the “insufficiently pure on cultural issues” camp, the conservative dissatisfaction with him has dogged him since his 2008 run, and indeed dates back to his tenure as governor of Arkansas. Pence has the support of the Club for Growth, the hardline anti-tax, free market-worshipping group which con…