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DADT Repeal and DREAM Defeat: A Failure of Evangelical Influence?

By Sarah Posner

…lesbians in the military. Viewing today as a microcosm of religious political activism, these two votes caused me to wonder: do elected officials give a damn what religious activists have to say? Let’s take DREAM first: there was a pretty wide coalition of religious activists who supported DREAM and brought their message to the Hill. The activists included long-time proponents of immigration reform, including Protestant denominations and Jewish g…

Chester the (Amish) Molester

By Daniel Schultz

…gli Redivivus compares this to the more commonplace scandals among evangelicals and Catholics. That’s not completely fair, since Mast doesn’t seem to have occupied any formal position within the Amish church. There aren’t many such positions, but that’s the point: this is not a case of a formal church structure being used to perpetrate crimes against minors or to cover them up. In fact, it’s rather remarkable that the community gave Mast up at all…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…concerns over domestic terrorism and left many confused about Christian apocalyptic belief, which requires some basic history to sort out. The Hutaree [hoo-TAR-ee]—which means “Christian warrior” in the group’s secret language—were preparing “for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive.” They believed that “one day, as prophecy says, there will be an Antichrist. All Christians must know this and prepare, just as Christ co…

CPAC Conservatives Shun “Crazy Bigot” Gaffney

By Sarah Posner

…n Conservative Union board, which annually sponsors the Conservative Political Action Conference. WND’s piece is based on Gaffney’s charges “that Islamism has infiltrated the American Conservative Union, the host of CPAC, in the person of Washington attorney and political activist Suhail Khan and a group called Muslims for America.” I caught up with Khan this afternoon, who last spoke with RD about the American Center for Law and Justice’s calls f…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture, By Eileen Luhr (University of California Press, 2009). Mainstream evangelicalism is fairly well-known, thanks to the cultural warfare and legislative efforts of the religious right over the past several decades. What remains overlooked by the popular press is how Christian subculture has often intersected with secular culture—sometimes blurring the lines between the two. In her first book, Eileen Luhr,…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…d, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord. A voice on the bare heights is heard, the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God: Return, O faithless children, I will hea…

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

…ing, of course, God’s gift of democracy). Now America has moved from being called “a city on a hill” to being sacrilegiously cast as God. With this political theology, God is not dead but merely replaced. Our hope lies not in Heaven but in Washington DC, and we are watched over not by angels but by senators. Our heroes of the faith are no longer Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Ronald, Newt, and Dubya. If McCain, as America’s new savior, rises to hi…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…n of Christian consensus might have an Afrocentric preacher, or an evangelical may have an impregnated teen, or a Catholic may have a weakness for plagiarism, or an Episcopalian may have a hankering for Charles Keating’s cash. These aren’t exceptions in the study of religion, they are the rules. Men and women believe even as they struggle, relentlessly, to behave. So when I say that John McCain may not believe in God, I do so with serious thought,…

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

By Sarah Posner

…ll and the McCain-Palin campaign not far behind, Lou Engle, founder of The Call, which organizes stadium-sized fasting and prayer rallies, sent out an urgent e-mail to supporters. “We are in a moment of extraordinary crisis in America,” was his ominous warning. “These elections will shape the future of our nation for decades.” With many Americans wondering whether the global financial system was about to implode, Engle’s mind was elsewhere. He was…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…share as economists is an intense interest in the way people behave economically, in the psychological motives (and yes, the faith) that drive certain choices. In the world of contemporary economics, according to David Brooks, there are two dominant models of analysis: number crunching and psychology. Greenspan was a number cruncher, says Brooks, and unfortunately, human psychology caught up with him. Greenspan saw real estate values continuing to…