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Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

By Randall Balmer

…ination of gays and lesbians and even (still!) the ordination of women. On October 20, 2009, the Vatican announced a special “Apostolic Constitution” that would welcome these restive Episcopalians and Anglicans into the Catholic Church, allowing them to bring with them some of the glorious liturgies and music of the Anglican tradition. While I’ve seen no evidence of Anglicans and Episcopalians “swimming the Tiber” en masse (pardon the pun) to Rome…

Not a ‘Weenie-A** Lodge’: James Ray Trial Begins

By Johnny P. Flynn

…fast for thirty-six hours with no food or water. Then, on the afternoon of October 8, 2009, Ray gathered all the people at the Angel Valley Retreat for a Warrior Sweat which was scheduled to last for two or more hours. More than fifty “grandfather stones” were brought into the sweat lodge and by the end of the ordeal two were dead, one more would die without recovering consciousness, and fifteen were reported to be suffering ill effects. In spite…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…A very religious thing happened when Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama on October 19. We got called to shame: I’m also troubled by…what members of the [Republican] party say, and is permitted to be said—such things as, ‘Well you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.’ Well, the correct answer is, ‘He is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian, he’s always been a Christian.’ But the really right answer is, ‘What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

UPDATE, October 31: This Sunday Lula won the Brazilian presidential election by an extremely narrow margin, though Brazil’s future remains in the balance. Bolsonaro and his allies engaged in systematic militarized voter suppression on the day of the election, hoping to stage a passive coup by preventing Lula’s base from getting to the polls. Even more worrying, the fact that 49% of Brazilian voters chose Bolsonaro’s sexist, racist, Christian nati…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ee Chip Berlet’s post at Daily Kos titled “Obama Waffles Denounced but Conference Content Ignored” and Sarah Pulliam’s report at Christianity Today. Movie teasers: Billy: The Early Years of Billy Graham is coming to “select theaters across the country” starting October 10. Bill Maher’s Religulous (watch for RD review in the coming weeks), set to open on October 3, is “a long Maher spiel” that dismisses other viewpoints, and is “very funny” but als…

Flagship Biblical Studies Group Faces Bitter Divide Over Statements on Israel/Palestine

By Seth Sanders

…ons of sympathy for Palestinian suffering. It began about a week after the October 7 massacre, when the Society of Biblical Literature, after urging from a group organized by (among others) Duke professor Marc Brettler and Bar-Ilan professor Nili Samet, issued a statement vigorously condemning the attacks and labeling Hamas as terrorists whose atrocities are “opposed to the values we espouse as human beings and as a professional society.” But the…

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about. Trump, Sunday, October 25, 2015: I would certainly give an apology if I said something bad about it. But I didn’t. All I said was I don’t know about it. Trump has taken a page from Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign. In a December 2007, New…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…rise in antisemitic incidents in 2023 seemed like old news. Following the October 7th Hamas attack that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, news reports frequently mentioned escalating American antisemitism. Many of these are well documented and unequivocal incidents: street attacks on visibly Jewish people, bomb threats at synagogues, and a return of rhetoric like “Zionist Occupied Government.” But looking more closely at the coverage, these narrative…

Running Against the Devil: Trump’s Conspiracy-Laden Fight Against Powers of Darkness

By Carmen Celestini

…n spite of it. – Arlie Russell Hochschild, Washington Post, 11/7/16 In mid-October Alex Jones, host of Infowars, infamous breeding ground of conspiracy theories, announced that “high-level sources” connected to Hillary Clinton had informed him that both Clinton and President Obama were demons. As proof of the impact that conspiracy theories are having on this election cycle, President Obama humorously responded to Jones’ allegation at a rally in G…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

On Monday, October 31st, Antje Jackelen, the Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala and primate of the Church of Sweden, read the gospel at an ecumenical service to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Pope Francis embraced Jackelen at the passing of the peace. This morning, when he boarded a plane back to Rome, Kristina Kappelin of Swedish TV asked the pope if the Catholic ban on female priests was “forever.” “On the ordination of women in the…