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Latest Book on Evangelical ‘Extremism’ Reflects Pervasive Tendency to Beat Up on Judaism to Save Jesus

By Greg Carey

…ommanded Jews to rebuild the temple, he wasn’t speaking of the temple in Jerusalem but of “Jesus and his eternal sovereignty.” Haggai, who would have lived 500 years before the birth of Jesus, was not. Later, the same preacher compares politicized right-wing preachers to the biblical Pharisees, described as “blind guides” in Matthew’s Gospel. This claim is both harmful and, even according to Christian scripture, unfounded. It’s harmful because man…

Latest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty

By Sarah Posner

…erstand the Bible. “Neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolators, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God,” he told his congregation….

Reports of the Black Church’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: A Review of Walter Fluker’s Latest Book

By Joseph Winters

…der to highlight the connections, and tensions, between black liberation struggles and the struggles of other oppressed groups around the world. The language of diaspora also registers the shape-shifting nature of identity, the fluidity of our attachments. Similar to the transition from Dilemma to Diaspora, Fluker urges black Christians to replace the Exodus trope with the image of Exile. As many commentators, including Glaude, have noted, the Exo…

WikiLeaks’ October Surprise: With “Spirit Dinners,” Conspiracy Goes Mainstream

By Carmen Celestini

…wikileaks/status/794450623404113920 Linking the occult, Satan worship, and New World Order to the American Presidency and political realm, have been simmering below the mainstream within the margins of conspiratorial public spheres for many years. Conspiracy sites have long promoted the theory that presidents of the United States are demons acting on behalf of Satan. Numerous articles, YouTube videos and internet conspiracy websites (such as Befor…

Mitt Romney’s Honesty Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…Politifact. Of course, the questions Huffington and the DNC raise are not new. In 2007, Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi scrutinized “Romney’s Honesty Problem” on abortion, and John McCain’s presidential campaign developed an anti-Romney ad strikingly similar to the DNC’s. But this time around, as attention continues to consolidate on Romney as once-and-future frontrunner, it seems clear that the honesty meme is going to stick. It may in fact…

Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…Decades of gender analysis that has offered alternatives to socially constructed binaries and produced a wide spectrum of ways human beings understand themselves gender wise is completely ignored. Oddly, the first issue raised is plastic surgery, as if the Vatican were gearing up a campaign against it akin to its anti-abortion efforts. Oh, that pesky matter of choice again. There is much to critique about the medicalization/commercialization of w…

Racist Ramtha Tirade: The Questions We Aren’t Asking

By Joseph Laycock

…ha School of Enlightenment (RSE), is suing former members who uploaded the videos of Knight’s racist statements to the Internet in 2012. In the state of Washington, the leaked videos also embarrassed democratic candidates who have accepted $70,000 in campaign donations from Knight (much to the delight of The Freedom Foundation, a libertarian think tank). Knight claims the statements were satirical and taken out of context, though it’s difficult to…

Seen Andrew Sullivan’s Expose-Style Footage of the LDS Temple? Now Read This.

By Joanna Brooks

…ance religious obligation with the demands of everyday life in the secular world. In this, Mitt Romney’s own example is instructive: his promises to consecrate his life to his religion have not prevented him from pursuing what is by all accounts an aggressively secular business career and accumulating his own fortune, even if he has earmarked a fraction of that fortune for donations to the Church. Nothing in his career as governor and nothing in…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…that to me. If you look at all the absolute shit it’s been through for thousands of years; whether it’s corrupt popes or immoral priests, it always comes out the other side.“ While this group at Fordham isn’t alone in joining a religious organization this year, the move to the Catholic Church is not so common. Pew’s 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study showed that between 2007 and 2014 six Catholic adults left the Church for every one who joined t…

8 Great Hanukkah Clips from TV

By Michael J. Altman

…d from television. So, I figure that’s good enough for you too. Here are 8 videos—one for each night of the holiday—that cover everything from the Maccabees to Hanukkah Harry to the Holiday Armadillo. Enjoy. Night 1- It wouldn’t be Hanukkah on TV without Adam Sandler’s classic tribute to famous Jews everywhere: Night 2- The story of the Maccabees as told by the Rugrats, complete with pop-up scrolls… Night 3- Elmo learns all about Hanukkah Night…