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Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…Simon & Schuster. Why, Sandler asks, are prejudices about “selfish” and “maladjusted” single kids (and their parents) so widespread in our culture, despite much evidence to the contrary? Part of the answer has to do with myths about the happiness of singletons and their families, which Sandler debunks, but the book has a broader scope that makes it worthwhile for anyone interested in government policy and contemporary American culture. Single-chi…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…f predominantly white, suburban, reformed evangelical congregations. C.J. Mahaney, the current president, and Larry Tomczak—today a pastor at Bethel World Outreach Church in Brentwood, Tennessee—co-founded the Gaithersburg, Maryland church that would become Covenant Life in 1977. It was the first in what would become a network of 91 churches across 25 states and 17 countries. And it would launch the careers of several conservative Christian activi…

‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…And surely no woman who is raped consents in any way to the conception of a child. To suggest that she has the power to resist or prevent this is not only biologically absurd but also morally wrong and deeply offensive. RD: Dr. Laqueur, you open your book Making Sex with the story of an “interpretive chasm” separating two versions of the same story; the first told in 1752 and the second in 1836. A monk is told to keep watch over the body of a gir…

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

By Kathryn Joyce

…that sprung to mind, and that we used in our case, is Supreme Court case NAACP vs. Alabama from 1958, where the state of Alabama said we need the NAACP membership lists. We’ve cited that case and made the same arguments, that to pry into the communications records and membership lists of a nonprofit support and advocacy group, regardless of the motives or possible outcomes, is on its face a violation of freedom of speech, freedom of association a…

Nebraska Latest State to Declare Open Season on Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…extreme. Earlier this month, Rep. Phil Jensen, a South Dakota Republican lawmaker, had proposed an amendment to a bill to expand the legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language that said a homicide is permissible if committed by a person while resisting an attempt to harm that person’s “unborn child or the unborn child of that person’s spouse, partner, parent, or child.” Last week, the bill, which had made it would of committee an…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…, just an update: I figured out my clock problem. Some how in changing the alarm I inadvertently changed the clock itself; so that a.m./p.m. were switched. I had my lovely 4 minute adhan greet me this morning. The other good news was that I found my mp3 player! I’m a little embarrassed to say, it was actually in one of the many pockets of my car. I have only owned this car for a few days before Ramadan, so things like discovering I could plug in t…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…over the world since the early 1990s, bringing what Holvast calls a ‘new paradigm.’ René Holvast has theological training, but his perplexed reaction was similar to that of Alix Spiegel, a radio journalist who went to Ted Haggard’s New Life Church in 1997 to do a story for This American Life. Spiegel encountered something so alluring, even overwhelming, that the secular, urban Jew was almost pulled in. (After several days at Ted Haggard’s church,…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…ti-million dollar media ministry—are working overtime to demonize Senator Barack Obama. Posted on October 22, a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America” plumbs the depths of the religious right’s worst collective nightmare. “Reporting” back after four years of an Obama presidency which has allowed “Liberals [to] … dominate the government in a way they haven’t in decades,” this portrait of liberal bogeymen gone Lord of the Flies is, for conservative C…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

Back in April, Wired magazine published a story on the history of a strange monument in rural Elberton, Georgia (“granite capital of the world”) known as the Georgia Guidestones. The monument consists of four 16-foot-high slabs of granite arranged around a central column and topped with a capstone weighing 25,000 pounds. Carved onto the face of each slab is a list of ten precepts for creating a better society, written in eight modern languages. O…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…e to investigate last Sunday’s mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Florida and sort through a complex of potential motivations. Although the shooter called a local emergency number during the attack to pledge his allegiance to ISIS, news reports have suggested that there is to date no evidence of any connection to the group. ISIS officials have encouraged supporters to launch attacks in their home countries during Ramadan. National Public Radio…