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Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…iod of the late 1980s through the early 1990s, a group of quintessentially American tinkerers grafted new practices of ‘spiritual mapping’ and ‘spiritual warfare’ onto a peculiar and radical theological substrate emerging from the Latter Rain and healing revivals that burst out in Canada and North America during the late 1940s. They molded their hybridized new Christianity into a standardized package of ideas and practices such that, by the late 1…

Death Penalty, Debated (Dedicated to the Memory of Sarah Horowitz)

By Bill Berkowitz

…ther, in the depths of a heartland winter, to knock on doors and bring out Americans she had never met to join in her campaign of hope, of yes we can. And you can bet that when she called me from Iowa to relate her progress there was a smile in her voice and not a hint of complaint about the weather or anything else. Sarah was also unalterably opposed to the death penalty. In his eulogy, Horowitz described how Sarah, often suffering from her own c…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…p shop sucking up 40 percent of the town’s yearly budget. The influence of American police departments on public opinion is deeply rooted in the reason cop shops exist—yes, to “protect and serve,” sometimes, but more often to serve as the last line of defense against democratic forces threatening to flatten the old orders of social and political power. Cops are white power incarnate. So expect to hear familiar rhetoric about “brave men and women i…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…it wasn’t shallow) to the President, to his former colleagues, and to the American people, still insisting that his failure to pay taxes for three years was “completely inadvertent.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was predictably soothing: “No one in this administration or in this building is insensitive,” said Gibbs, in respect to how this matter might be perceived. I have news for Mr. Gibbs: if they kept Daschle on board, as they tried to do, the…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…tic or atheistic view, however well known it may be, is not shared by most Americans. “Repent, the end of the world is at hand.” Less known are the clerical responses of the time, which were numerous. Charles and John Wesley (the latter considered the founder of the Methodist movement) preached many sermons on the earthquake. According to Methodist minister Ann Bracket, the Wesley brothers saw the Lisbon earthquake in terms of the biblically-preor…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…fact” in the statement) and that it would thus be cancelled. Lena did not contact Corvino, who only learned of the event’s cancellation when Christopher Arroyo, who helped organize the event, e-mailed him. On Wednesday, facing national outcry, Lena released another statement, announcing that Corvino’s speaking engagement had simply been “rescheduled” for the spring. They’ve also taken steps to ensure this never happens again by requiring that th…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…t of people before it was deleted. I’ve tried various means to make direct contact with you with no success. I also understand that you do not make yourself available for appointments, per your website. I have gone back and forth on whether or not to publish this letter, until a recent conversation with a friend compelled me to check and see if I could find the full message. It was back! So I watched. But the section posted in the tweet appears to…

A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…f God’s proclamation that homosexuality is “an abomination,” made same-sex contact legal, the nation became the enemy of God. And, as readers of the Old Testament know, a nation that is the enemy of God will find its armies destroyed. To preach this message to the world, members of Westboro Baptist Church attend military funerals, where they hold signs that say “God is America’s Enemy” and “Your Soldier’s in Hell.” Because people at funerals are e…

Open Letter to Creflo Dollar

By Lerone A. Martin

…er structure was clouded in a questionable history of inappropriate sexual contact with children? Or would you seek to place your family’s treasures, time, and talents elsewhere? Would YOU tell your catholic neighbors to send their children back to the same parish and priest that allowed children to be sexually abused? Would you tell them its only a “wreck?” Or would you tell them to find another church home? Those who left New Birth came to y…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…e to fight alone. If getting started at Covenant Eyes feels like a battle, contact our Member Care Team, and we’ll join you on the battlefield.” The spiritual seeker is also GI Joe, a man ready to fight against porn for God. By priming this sense of embattlement, the micropolitics of fascism in its addictive, fleshy, intimate form, is interconnected to the macropolitics of fascism in its violent, dominionist, spectacular practice. White evangelica…