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Texas Board of Education Sets Sights on Islam

By Lauri Lebo

…textbooks and warns of a “pro-Islam anti-Christian bias.” According to the Dallas Morning News: Members of the board’s social conservative bloc asked for the resolution after an unsuccessful candidate for a board seat called on the panel to head off any bias against Christians in new social studies books. Some contend that “Middle Easterners” are increasingly buying into companies that publish textbooks. A preliminary draft of the resolution state…

Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…Chandler for Texas Monthly, explaining how the quick-witted, 30-something Dallas megachurch pastor had become a star in that movement, and how he had coped, publicly and courageously, with a cancer diagnosis. What I didn’t mention was our discussion about gay rights. On the day I visited his church, he preached on the pitfalls of pornography and the dangers of illicit desire, but there was no mention of the horrors of homosexuality. That seemed o…

Julian Assange Nativity, Castro’s Hanukkah, & a Burger Blessing

By Michael J. Altman

…eaks’ Julian Assange is represented in nativity scenes in Naples, Italy. A Dallas, Texas megachurch pastor is compiling a list of business that fail to recognize Christmas and instead settle for ‘Happy Holidays.’ Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is taking a stand in the war on Christmas by trying to keep the “Christ” in “Christmas parade.” And the three wise men may have been from China. Always striving to sink to ever lower levels of human decenc…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…for biblical reasons, said Merril Matthews, an evangelical Christian and a Dallas-based health-policy specialist. Mrs. Palin was baptized as a teenager at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church. She frequently attends the Juneau Christian Center, which is also a part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God. Her home church is the Church of the Rock, an independent congregation. “Historically, the Assemblies of God have been dispensationalists, which mean…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…lim Brotherhood front. We know that from the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, Texas. And unfortunately, this network, like every other, bringing them forward as the spokesman for the Muslim American community. They shouldn’t be, any more than the president should be reaching out to them and utilizing them, I should say, as his go-to people. Gaffney’s claim that “in fact, any Muslim American organization in this country of any prominence is a…

Jesus Comes Out for Christmas

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rticular standard. Perhaps, this may be the place for First Baptist Church Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress to jet off to for Christmas to make his stand against the “wimpy” Jesus he accuses liberal Christians of portraying. Y’know, that Jesus who was “this little, wimpy guy who walked around plucking daisies and eating birdseed and saying nice things, but never doing anything controversial. The fact is, Jesus did confront his culture with truth—and…

Michelle Shocked Show Shut Down After Anti-Gay Rant

By Kathryn Joyce

…homophobe. Ask God what He thinks,” she said, before shutting off her microphone to complain, “There is always someone who wants to catch me.” Shocked, who somewhat famously came to Jesus through a black evangelical church she began attending for its gospel choir, spoke in 2008 to the Dallas Voice, a gay paper, about reconciling her image among fans as “an honorary lesbian” with the anti-gay sermons she heard at her new church. He said he preach…

“Papers Please”: The Legal Battle Over Church Sex-Abuse Files

By Omar Shamout

…es” pertaining to sex-abuse in the Boy Scouts were archived at the group’s Dallas headquarters. But unlike the LDS documents, lawyers were successful in getting those files released last year. Clark said that was mainly due to judicial precedent in rulings against the Catholic Church. A database of the Boy Scout files can be found on Clark’s website. While he and Boucher have been involved in cases against a wide variety of religious and nonprofit…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…m our demons? The murders of Alton B. Sterling, Philando Castile, the five Dallas police officers, and the other black men killed last week who did not make the news show us our oppression. The problem with invoking the demonic is that such invocation has been used as a rhetorical band-aid to cover a wound far too serious to imagine recovery. Yet we must invoke the demonic now not to cover over what Wendell Berry called the racial wound but in ord…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…” includes Lea Carawan of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Bill Dallas of United in Purpose (a Christian Right strategic and capacity building organization), Buddy Pilgrim, a businessman who served as National Director for Faith & Religious Liberty for the 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, and of course David Barton. The Project Blitz report was published at the end of 2017 and is central to the Christian Right’s agenda in the sta…