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Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…per tickets. Up to the manuscript room, where I handed the ID card and one ticket to the clerk. She gave me a key to a locker, where I had to leave all my belongings except one pencil (not a pen, with which I could deface a manuscript) and a notebook. Reentering the reading room, I had to display my pencil and notebook to the clerk to get back my ID card and the ultimate prize: a plastic block with a number on it. I was then permitted to sit in a…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…levating a new generation of self-appointed prophets and apostles, African-American and Latino religious leaders, Charismatic publishing giant Stephen Strang, and religious right leaders like Perkins, Harry Jackson, and Gary Bauer. The religious right political leadership’s keen interest in Engle was evident at The Call held on the National Mall in August. The day before the event, the public relations firm Shirley Bannister introduced Engle—flank…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…hich become, essentially, the theology of modernity. For Buchan, then, the American-style theology of the marketplace has three essential components. First, Providence is trumped by the gambler’s probability, a kind of numerical reasoning that you can indeed calculate, as you could never calculate the economics of grace. Think of that: grace, the paradigmatic free gift, is replaced by the massive edifice of Wall Street number-crunchers and their c…

What is a “Religious Progressive” Anyway?

By Daniel Schultz

…while they lightly tossed a link from TPMDC at our head: Poll: Majority Of Americans Not Quite Sure What ‘Progressive’ Means. “Define it! Own it! Spare no expense! Send a telegram to the Soviets if you have to!” We briefly considered reminding Our Dear Overlord that the Soviets had been superannuated back when he was still in grade school. But we like our knuckles un-rapped and our invoices signed, so we decided—not for the first time—that discret…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…on Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom (PoliPointPress, 2008). ++++++++++ Jewish Group Protests Mormon Posthumous Baptisms of Jewish Victims of the Holocaust The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors recently held a press conference in New York City to demand that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) stop posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps. Ch…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…umstances, and who has changed his mind after Sarah Palin was named to the ticket—accused Obama of “deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview,” and having a “fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution.” Last week, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink.com ran a piece by Robert George that claimed that Obama “is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever”, “the most extreme pro-abortion member of th…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…er took him out to lunch and said, remembers Talen, “We need a new kind of American preacher.” Lanier convinced him that in order to speak relevantly to American politics and society, one has to understand its religion. They watched sermons together and studied “existential Christianity”‚ the historical Jesus, ancient Gnostics, and Continental philosophy. They learned the styles of televangelists like Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart. “Gradually I…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…e electrified, and Sarah is someone who is truly in sync with the way real American women think.” The emphasis on “real women” didn’t end with Dannenfelser either. Janice Crouse of the Beverly LaHaye Institute provided key insight into the excitement Palin was causing among the religious right, crowing: “Take that feminists — here is a woman of accomplishment who brings a fresh face to traditional values and models the type of woman most girls wan…

The Dalai Lama and Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…inding us of that shared connection. Disclosure: Eboo Patel and I have been friends for several years, and IFYC supplied my ticket to this event….

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…museum in our sense of that word—anyone, male or female, could purchase a ticket on any day the museum was open, and wander freely among the nude statues of pagan deities. Then, just twenty years later in 1754, Pope Benedict XIV created the “Naked Academy” (l’Accademia del Nudo) inside the very palace where the Capitoline collection was housed. The idea was to promote the fine arts, by providing a space in which contemporary artists could sketch…