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As Pat Robertson Retires, Here Are 10 of His Most Cringeworthy Moments

By Chrissy Stroop

…nswer is, Yes, they are.” It’s telling that Robertson failed to add the faux-inclusive prefix “Judeo” to his call for Christian values in government. It is not, however, surprising, given that Robertson called non-Christians “termites” in 1986, claiming that “the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He [sic] is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The p…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…ted for Israel (CUFI), the powerful evangelical lobby led by John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas is also deeply involved with NACL. Rapert says the relationship goes back to 2012 when he filed a resolution in the legislature in support of Israel. The following year, Hagee took him on a junket to Israel. CUFI hosted a reception at the Dallas conference in July, and the agenda announced a private meeting between them and NACL. One of the three founding…

The Bishops Did Send a Message with Their Vote on Biden and Communion; Are We Sure It Was The One They Intended?

By Daniel Schultz

…ssing. Just a little, not too much. It’s a warning: don’t get ideas about expanding abortion rights, or rights for gays and lesbians. Go too far, and we will try to cut you off. Was that an idle threat? Probably. There’s no way on God’s green earth the Vatican is going to excommunicate a sitting U.S. President. The Holy See has worked hard to maintain its unusual status as a sovereign nation, and this is the kind of diplomatic incident they don’t…

Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

By Isaiah Murtaugh

…protests. Erica Ramirez, a sociologist at Auburn Seminary who studies Latinx religion and Pentecostalism, said the Azusa Street revival was revolutionary precisely because it exploded traditional racial hierarchies. “[Azusa Street came at] a time where Jim Crow laws were still in place, where lynchings were still happening. William Seymour was the son of former slaves. It was radical for white people to be going to a church where a Black leader is…

Rolling the Stone Away: LGBTQI Elders Meet the Next Generation of Christian Activists at a Watershed Conference

By Mary E. Hunt

…ow they were described then) founded the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in San Francisco. Well before Stonewall, pastors there took on the police and city officials for their discriminatory behavior toward lesbian, gay, and trans people who simply wanted to have dances or go to bars to meet others. The pastors won. History records that Christian leaders were in the struggle for gay rights from the beginning—a small matter of pride given th…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…cro level, draw upon notions of divine election, chosenness, and American exceptionalism. These settler colony origin myths explain how the chosen peoples of America are destined for greatness; its Manifest Destiny. This also explains why the suggested replacement of Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day faces an uphill battle. In 1977 indigenous leaders from around the world organized a United Nations conference to promote indigenous sovereig…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…arfare” language, some Neocharismatic-Pentecostals point to the biblical text of Ephesians 6:12 to explain how “principalities and powers” are demonic forces that control geographical regions across the world. Christian author Frank Peretti has tried to capture the idea of “spiritual warfare” in his novels This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. Wagner, for his part, systematized “spiritual warfare” as a battle fought on three levels: 1)…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ate Professor Practice of Ministry, Claremont School of Theology Rev. Melva L. Sampson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology, Wake Forest University School of Divinity Rev. Michele E. Watkins, PhD, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego Rev. Brandon T. Maxwell, Dean of Students, Vice President for Enrollment & Student Affairs, Columbia Theological Seminary Christopher W. Hunt, PhD, As…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…0s and 60s were, by the 1970s, threatened by the potential loss of their tax-exemptions. Southern political leaders realized that times had changed and that direct appeals to racism were no longer going to work. So the honchos of what was then called the New Right, turned to anti-abortion activism in the years following Roe v. Wade and created the “pro-life” movement. “So it has absolutely nothing to do with concern for children,” he said. “It has…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…trio’s universalism is the genesis of antisemitism. Such was the concept explored in his only work of fiction, his 1981 novel The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. which imagined a group of Mossad agents forced to put an aged Hitler on trial in the Amazon forest after their reconnaissance mission to retrieve him and bring him to Israel for trial has failed. Provocative ideas were Steiner’s medium. In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Rede…