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Carter, Gore, and the New Baptist Covenant

By Bruce Prescott

…he Carter administration supported the IRS ruling. This inspired fundamentalist televangelists and megachurch preachers to organize in 1979. While Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority, others like Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley organized the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC, with intentions of using the machinery of the denomination to influence secular politics. This takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention was complete by 1989; pur…

Painting Elephants

By Bruce Prescott

…he Carter administration supported the IRS ruling. This inspired fundamentalist televangelists and megachurch preachers to organize in 1979. While Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority, others, like Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley, organized the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC with intentions of using the machinery of the denomination to influence secular politics. This takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention was complete by 1989; pu…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle

By Jeff Sharlet

…ifesto for messiness in writing about religion, politics, and media. Journalists, editors, scholars, my comrades on the God beat: Please, don’t tidy up the narrative of religion in America to conform to the demands of election season op-ed pages. Reveal it for what you, better than any individual believer or unbeliever, know it to be: wildly pluralistic, profoundly unstable, ingeniously conformist, weird, funny, tender, banal, and infused with wit…

Creating a Cell: Science Plays God

By Arri Eisen

…anism that would quickly eat up all the oil that BP spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Or, what if you could make an organism that would produce energy? This work represents a quantum leap toward such possibilities. Here’s what Venter and his colleagues actually did. They synthesized from scratch the entire one-million DNA base pair genome of a bacterium of species A. Then they put that genome into a bacterial cell of a species B, closely related to A…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

Choose Right, Not Racism, Gov. Romney

By Anthea Butler

…r own family history points to a painful past. Your grandfather escaped to Mexico to be able to practice his belief in polygamy (you and President Obama both have polygamy in your family history). Mormons have been persecuted for a long time, though your money and your father’s position protected you from associating with that persecuted past. It is part of you, no matter how much you cling to your privilege. Would it be too difficult for you to e…

Pat Robertson Warns Yoga Will Have You Speaking Hindu

By Andrea R. Jain

Pat Robertson, the notorious and influential television evangelist and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, is not new to the yogaphobic maelstrom that has been brewing for as long as Western Europeans and North Americans have been familiar with yoga. In the last couple of decades, largely in response to the widespread popularization of yoga, yogaphobia has shot to mainstream attention as socially conservative, high-profile Protestant e…

Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…ards’ self-excoriating understanding to that of the contemporary fundamentalist who makes everyone an inhabitant of that place but himself. In an increasingly disenchanted world it is horror that provides some of our most common experiences of the transcendent (for we must remember that Lucifer himself descended from heaven). What film is more suffused with a sense of the holy and the radical otherness of the sacred than The Exorcist? In that way…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…the Democratic Party. It is about the reach of a Social Darwinist, or royalist, mindset of one segment of the party—a reach commonly signified by tags like “New Democrat” or “neo-liberal.” To me the current fight is even reminiscent of the successful campaign by financial elites to “update” United States trade policy during the Clinton years. They pushed through the NAFTA and WTO agreements even though millions of working-class Democrats and thou…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…lmost 50,000 members in Missouri alone in that time, another 45,000 in New Mexico, and Florida, 12,000 in Washington D.C. Reading through the data, the conclusion seems inescapable: over the last half of the 20th century, the Southern Baptists enjoyed remarkable success in expanding out of their traditional turf. But in the early part of this century, that momentum stalled, and now they’ve started to give ground back. Were it not for the growth in…