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‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…ate, banking, and the stock market. Yes of course New York is the American center of theater, fine art and publishing; but even with these folks the talk is of money, financing, advances, sales figures. The pandemic will change a lot of things about New York City, but not its obsession with money. Of course, I can think of a few complicating factors. The outgoing president is the Emperor of BS, and he is, or was, a New Yorker. (Florida can have hi…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…g is having in that country, it is of course a much larger phenomenon. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which has brought a novel lawsuit against Lively for what it calls his conspiracy to deprive LGBT people in Uganda of their fundamental rights, notes that Lively is proud that his work has been characterized as “a nuclear bomb” against gay rights in Uganda. He says “I hope the nuclear bomb spreads across the whole world, against the gay mov…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…majority of the U.S.-Mexico border, a January report from the Pew Research Center found that less than half of Americans consider Trump’s much-touted “border wall” to be a priority for immigration reform. It is unclear where Priebus got his information that “80 percent” of Americans want a taller, thicker border wall, but no one onstage today challenged his claim. Among other dubious claims that cannot be objectively debunked was Bannon’s assertio…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…vinced them that order and chaos are not ultimately enemies. At the sacred center there is a coincidence of opposites that harmonizes the two. But modern people no longer have convincing symbols of a coincidence of opposites that affords an opening to transcendence. They divide the world into two realms—order and chaos—and they see life as an endless contest between the two. Without access to transcendence, they rely on the economic and political…

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…tive Choice Gay Rights I am sure the folks at Faith in Public Life and the Center for American Progress also support these core values, so it is beneficial to reframe the debate as being one about strategy and tactics. Progressive Pragmatists talk about seeking a broader agenda that moves away from the culture wars. I’d like that as well. So why are Progressive Pragmatists (known for their history of working with Progressive Idealists) uncriticall…

Failure to Grasp the Distinct Character and History of Eastern Christianity is Compromising Our Understanding of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Katherine Kelaidis

…s for Orthodox Christianity, Volos Academy for Theological Studies and the Center for Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University.* The Moscow Patriarchate has essentially responded through the personal website of Alexander Shipkov, one of its media liaisons. In the statement, Shipkov rejects the declaration published on “a Greek portal” as a “a purely political document that has nothing to do with genuine Christianity.” It’s merely the most…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…possible worlds because created, after all, by such a god, arose front and center. Some clergy saw the earthquake as a signal for the end of the world. A few philosophers asked for scientific causes. (Immanuel Kant, for example, attributed the earthquake to underground caves filling with gases.) Most folks found either of these approaches less than satisfactory. Today some historians see the Lisbon earthquake as signaling the end of the optimism o…

Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter

By Sarah Posner

…ments, taking policy notes to bring back home. (emphasis added) The Howard Center and the WCF see themselves as culture warriors against liberalism broadly and the sexual revolution more specifically, protecting America (and the world, for that matter) from forces that would undermine its numbers and its might. For a specific example here at home, the Howard Center has decried family planning, including federal funding for contraception under Titl…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…ynchronous prayer. Haggard’s New Life Church and the adjacent World Prayer Center that was dedicated in 1998 were, for roughly a decade, the epicenter of an ongoing, radical redefinition of Christianity. One of its early board members became known to the secular world during the 2008 presidential campaign as an enigmatic Kenyan evangelist who, in 2005, had blessed Sarah Palin against witchcraft. Spiritual Mapping In the introduction to his dissert…

American Prosperity Gospel Makes South Sudan “Ripe for Exploitation”

By Anthea Butler

…viding sustenance, and engaging in politics on the sly, the Juba Christian Center is going to have a more far-reaching impact on the Sudanese who choose to follow Pentecostalism. It does the humanitarian work that Samaritan’s Purse does, but it also has the benefit of being closer to the indigenous population. What’s more, as the broadcast made clear, the believers at this Pentecostal church also consume the preaching of American Pentecostal media…