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Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…andt,” and London’s culture has more in common with that of Los Angeles or Dallas than it does with that of the city that braved the Blitz. In bold are the phrases which exude this notion that a glorious Europe has been, or is soon to be, destroyed. Such myopia about the problems of the past and dystopia about the wreckage of the future pervades Caldwell’s analysis. He uses both authors to shore up his own fixation on what he diagnoses as “the gri…

Pastor Who Called Mormonism a “Cult” Backs Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

Former Rick Perry backer Pastor Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of Dallas’ First Baptist Church, is now supporting Mitt Romney for President, he told a Texas radio station. This is the same Pastor Robert Jeffress who grabbed headlines last fall when he stormed into the Values Voter Summit and proclaimed that Mormonism was a “cult.” (An act which, as it turns out, may have been publicity stunt to drive Jeffress’ book sales.) The most vocally anti-M…

Lou Engle’s Bizarro Esther

By Katie Toth

…ling bad and by not eating. Lou Engle’s “Esther Call” will be finishing in Dallas, Texas today on Good Friday. The “mass event […] focuses on God’s forgiveness for those who have been involved in abortion […and calls on] viewers to pray for an end to the bloodshed of innocent lives.” Along with co-leader Laura Allred, Engle has called on women to repent for the nation’s abortions on behalf of America’s women. That’s a far cry from the original Est…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…s of probation for skimming charity funds. Catholic bishops from Miami and Dallas are making a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. Is corrupt football coach Jim Tressel an evangelical embarrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scandal out of…

4 (More) Nails in Discovery Institute’s Coffin

By Lauri Lebo

…stitute took its creationist road show to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Titled 4 Nails in Darwin’s Coffin, the event was sponsored by a student religious organization known as Pulse and the Victory Campus Ministries and included a showing of the pro-intelligent design movie Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. As Discovery Institute fellow Jonathan Wells said about the event in a news release, “The evidence is cl…

King Politicizes “Unindicted Co-Conspirator” Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory

By Sarah Posner

…Investigation, as well as the prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas, who had investigated and successfully prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation case. Their opposition to this decision raises serious doubt that the decision not to prosecute was a valid exercise of prosecutorial discretion.” As I have discussed previously, the “unindicted co-conspirators” theory is the foundation for conspiratorial assertions from the right that the Mu…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…end, Raleigh Washington, now PK’s President. There was Tony Evans too, the Dallas-based pastor who, back in the day, incensed the movement’s critics when he told the guys at the stadium rallies to take back their rightful place as the head of the family, urging their women to submit. They all looked a little older, grayer, and to my eyes, a little less threatening. Understanding Promise Keepers, studying it, fighting it, or defending it became a k…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…25 years,” was quoted as an authority on “brainwashing.” On April 17, the Dallas Morning News published an editorial by Jacquielynn Floyd in which she defended the “risk” the state of Texas took in removing all the children from the ranch and separating most of the children from their mothers, arguing that the children needed protection from “a secretive cult.” On April 18—the day before the fifteenth anniversary of the fire at Mount Carmel—self-…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…o learning and listening.” A month earlier, Warren hired Larry Ross of the Dallas, Texas-based A. Ross Communications to run his public relations operations. The PR firm was founded in 1994 to: “restore faith in media”; provide “value-added P.R. that defines values”’ and, give Christian messages relevance and meaning in mainstream media. Ross’ client list has included Mel Gibson (he helped publicize The Passion of the Christ), Pentecostal preacher…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…g with Him?”, reporter David Van Biema pointed out that Hunter, along with Dallas Pentecostal megapastor T.D. Jakes, Houston Methodist minister (and George Bush favorite) Kirbyjon Caldwell and Otis Moss II, the retired pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, participated in a telephone prayer session with Obama several hours before he was declared the winner. Hunter, who came to the media’s attention in 2006 when an arrangement…