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The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…ut all at once I understood and it felt great. Yet my childhood belief had provided protection for me and had given shape to my understanding of God and even of myself, and what did I have to replace it with? Nothing at first, and that was a little disorienting and scary. But I got through it and have since passed through many more sloughings-off of closely-held ideas. Take Your time. Build Some Trust. It is not only religious ideas that should be…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…his “generals” to defeat Satan and bring the world to Christ. During this pre-conference prayer session, the group prays for a “mega-breakthrough” and for God to “take down the enemy.” It’s not a war of flesh and blood, conference speakers are quick to point out, but against the evil evident everywhere around us: in the “total moral decay” of America; in the nearby “liberal” Indiana University; in the unexpected frog in the throat of a speaker fr…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…sault by the hoi polloi. In fact, a letter from the monument’s benefactors printed by the Elberton Granite Finishing Company predicted just such a scenario. They ask that the people of Elberton County restore the stones should they be “scattered by people of little understanding.” The short history of the Guidestones has parallels with the history of other mysterious messages and prophesies. It seems plausible that whoever invented the name “R. C….

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…New Foreclosure Proceedings.” It made me think of Steve Munsey, an Indiana prosperity preacher I watched in a Decatur, Georgia television studio in 2007, pleading for audience members and viewers to give their money to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. As it turns out, the story is about Munsey’s church, Family Christian Center, which claims to have a weekly attendance of 15,000, making it one of the largest churches in the country. According to a…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…ncluded some alarming people. Granted some of the coverage generalizes inappropriately, and much of it shows a lack of real understanding about the teachings of Reconstructionists, theonomists or (the new catchphrase) “dominionists.” But Perry has done much more than “once allowing himself to be prayed for,” and Bachmann didn’t just “once” attend that school. She still establishes her credentials based on her work there. Her mentor didn’t “once” s…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…lachian church hierarchy consistently accepts money from coal barons, the ‘prudent’ approach muzzles any social justice teaching.” However, in 2013, when Catholic Charities of West Virginia opened a new facility in Greenbrier County, they had to mention publicly that the project was made possible by a large donation from coal baron Jim Justice. In addition to several coal mines, Justice is the owner of the famous Greenbrier Resort, is West Virgini…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…I was dealing with expectations others placed upon me, not my own. And I’m proud of what I came up with in that process. I feel like the song works as a celebration, a reminder that love is extremely valuable and that it’s not temporary. Writing the song was a really powerful journey for me, and so was sharing it with others and realizing I wasn’t alone. On another track, “Inside,” you sing: “They’re gonna bury me/Before they hear the whole stor…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…ther leaving to become refugees in India, or else taking to the streets in protests. The CCP prides itself on its willingness to confront reality head on, on its ability to “adhere to the objective nature of things as the basis for accomplishing its agenda.” This being so, the Chinese leadership needs to ask itself whether the present policies are, objectively speaking, working, or whether in fact Tibetan devotion to the Dalai Lama, as a form of r…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…einhof Gang”), a left-wing terror group responsible for the destruction of property and a number of deaths in the 1970s. While teenagers were gluing themselves to the street in a desperate cry for climate justice, right-wing terrorists were plotting the overthrow of the German government and the execution of their enemies. Their preparations took at least a year—and included the establishment of a secure IT infrastructure, shooting exercises, the…

A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…researchers at Pew set out to conduct this survey, they quickly ran into a problem that’s been under discussion for at least two thousand years. As Gregory Smith, the Director of U.S. Religion Surveys at Pew, explained to me, “One of the key questions that we had to answer from a technical perspective, in terms of preparing for this survey, was, ‘Who is a Jew?’” Pew eventually found that at least a million Americans identity as Jewish, but have no…