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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…essay and the many angry responses to it. The president of the university, Joel Seligman, said that Gandhi’s statements about Israel and Jewish identity were “fundamentally inconsistent with the core values” of the university and requested his resignation. For many readers the posting’s parenthetical remark about a culture of violence in which “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” was the most offensive line in the essay. Also troubling to…

Et Tu, Bibi?

By Sarah Posner

…o understand that. But it’s there. Beck guest and former Netanyahu advisor Joel Rosenberg is pleased that Netanyahu is warning of threats to Western civilization: Netanyahu did not say these threats would inevitably come to pass. To the contrary, he stated clearly, “The good news is that nothing is inevitable. We have the power to protect our common civilization, to roll back the forces of radicalism and to advance a secure peace. One of the keys…

National Endowment for the Arts is Funding “Pornography”—Again!

By Bill Berkowitz

…t”), the NEA Four (Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes and Tim Miller), Joel Peter Witkin – were vilified by the Religious Right. Film festivals, small arts groups, and museum exhibits – whatever venues may have received NEA funding — were scrutinized. In the Spring of 1995, the Christian Coalition introduced its “Contract with the American Family,” which “argue[d] that the nation should ‘abolish all major federal welfare programs’ and turn the…

Conservative Christians Say it’s Okay to Vote for Romney Despite Doctrine

By Joanna Brooks

…he LDS Church have historically supported. Signatories include Ralph Reed, Joel Belz of World magazine, Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association, Jim Daly of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and other conservative religious stalwarts. We are not surprised. We’ve seen this coming. Remember it was just last year when Warren Cole Smith of World magazine declared…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…ted for such students as Representative Michelle Bachman, Ted Haggard, and Joel Osteen, ORU quickly became the go-to school for Pentecostals and Charismatics. Yet Roberts, frustrated with criticisms from the Pentecostal establishment, changed his affiliation in 1968 from the Pentecostal Holiness Church to United Methodist. This change allowed him to experiment with different styles of entertainment and ministry on his television show, and he soon…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

If Whole Foods and Joel Osteen got together and had a child, it would probably look something like Herbalife. The nutrition company takes the transformative promise of natural products, mixes it with the ethic of the prosperity gospel, and then sells it through a model that looks suspiciously like a pyramid scheme. That’s a profitable cocktail. Legally speaking, it’s also pretty sketchy. Herbalife embodies a kind of spiritualized optimism that ha…

Qur’an-Burning Pastor Says It’s Time “To Hold Islam Accountable”

By Sarah Posner

…nariness, and the ordinariness of accepting it, is why an evangelical like Joel Rosenberg can on the one hand denounce the Qur’an burning but in the same breath write, “I believe those who follow Islam are mistaken and misguided and need to leave Islam and receive Jesus Christ by faith as their personal Savior and Lord.” It’s why Joe Lieberman can say that burning the Qur’an is “inconsistent with American values” yet stand shoulder to shoulder wit…

Houston Megapastor to have his “Opening Day” at Yankee Stadium

By Jonathan L. Walton

This weekend Joel Osteen, pastor of the mammoth Lakewood Church in Houston, will bring his gospel of hope, happiness and spiritual healing to an anticipated 50,000 tri-state residents at the recently unveiled Yankee Stadium. Author of New York Times bestseller Your Best Life Now, Osteen is more known for his pearly white grin than the prosperity gospel that he inherited from his father, prominent Word of Faith preacher and Lakewood’s founding pas…

The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters

By Kristin Swenson

…alf-gods? And should our dear reader get all the way through Leviticus and Numbers (God-bless-‘er) she would certainly ask: of the six hundred thirteen specific laws, did I miss all those about abortion (no, they’re not there); or, why do the one or two that might (or might not) have to do with homosexuality get so much attention when there are so many laws that we never hear anything about, laws vociferously condemning adultery, dictating food ch…

Rick Warren Starts 2010 in the Black… $2.4M Worth

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…fulfillment. The middle of the decade saw the publication of televangelist Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential (2004) and TD Jakes’ Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits (2007). Joyce Meyer’s Seven Things That Steal Your Joy: Overcoming the Obstacles to Your Happiness (2004) and Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone (2005) are equally at home at Bible study and coffee klatch, i…