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Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…churches, essentially micro congregations. The World Prayer Network is an online church service. – From the World Prayer Network’s video prayer call ‘About’ page It’s fair to say that well established global trends in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements reveal one of the most significant developments in the history of Christianity. These trends have been underreported, but the New Apostolic Reformation’s (NAR) role in helping to drive and d…

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning

By Frederick Clarkson

…District 11, Academy District 20, and District 49. Towards the end of the service he pointed people to stacks of 30,000 cards for parishioners to use to organize people to visit their online voter guide. “So if there is someone who you really don’t think really shares your values—then don’t give them the card,” Holt declared with a twinkle in his eye. “No, I’m only kidding,” he concluded. Andrew Wommack was present, along with another member of a…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…helping out at that church. It was an attempt to discern how I might be of service and whether or not marrying my experiences and talents as a musician with my life of faith was something that was connected to that calling. I feel like I was called to a deeper awareness of God and that calling also was directly connected to an experience of service to an immediate moment of reaching out in kindness and compassion to someone and then a deeper aware…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n itself a moral problem.” It is not just Muslims who are turning to these online websites, the BBC has also seen posts from individuals from Sikh and Hindu backgrounds. Dipen Rajyaguru, the director of human rights and equality for the Hindu Council UK believes it is a cultural problem rather than a religious one. “People are forced into marriages of convenience because of those [cultural] pressures,” he said. “But, in terms of Hinduism, there is…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…de to the play. Show me why I’m doing this rather than going to the actual service at my local church a few blocks away. But writers with time to kill are not the kind of people Trinity Church is after with the Twitter play, according to Hanick. They want to reach the folks who would love to go to a service but can’t, who have to run around frantically all day with nothing but a Blackberry and imagination available to mark this most solemn day, wh…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…s an example of exactly that, and it doesn’t represent my service, nor the service of the many people I worked alongside. Most of the enemy fighters I encountered throughout my service were avowed Muslims. I am an avowed Christian. I know that Jesus is my lord savior. However, I was there neither on behalf of my God nor to battle against theirs. Far from being there to impose our own religion on foreign country, we were there to battle the resurge…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat chaplains “will not be required to perform a religious role…in worship services, command ceremonies, or other events, if doing so would be in variance with the tenets or practices of their faith.” At the same time, regulations state that “Chaplains care for all Service members, including those who claim no religious faith, facilitate the religious requirements of personnel of all faiths, provide faith-specific ministries, and advise the comman…

Expansion of “Conscience Clause” Could Redefine Birth Control as Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…caid, and Medicare Advantage). Similarly, we propose that the term “health service” means any service so provided. The total number of health care entities affected by the new proposal is 584,294, and includes 8,494 Residency Programs (accredited), 4,578 Health Insurance Carriers and 3rd-Party Administrators, 58,109 Pharmacies, 76,088 Grant awards, 57 State and territorial governments, 92 Pharmacy Schools, 2651 Nursing Schools, 234,200 Physicians…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…liefs, they are required to support the “free exercise of religion” of all servicemembers and their families, and enter service with the knowledge that they will serve “a religiously diverse population.” In any case, if there is disproportionate opposition to repeal among chaplains, it’s a trend that was created by the effort to recruit evangelical chaplains who opposed open service by gays and lesbians. If it’s unconstitutional for them to prosel…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

On August 16, an Olympic Games-fatigued American public will turn its attention toward Lake Forest, California, where Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church, and author of the mega-bestseller The Purpose-Driven Life, will host both presumptive presidential nominees, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). While the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion will not be a debate—interviews will be done separately and i…