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Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

Ten Questions for Jonathan Walton on Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism What inspired you to write Watch This? My interest in African American religious broadcasting came from what I perceived to be the gaps in the fields of African American religion and Religion, Media, and Culture. For the most part, scholars of African American religion in general and black theology in particular theorize about Afro-Protestantism in…

Is Obama Satan’s Warm-up Act?

By Mark Hulsether

Ever since my daughter and I noted in the pages of Religion Dispatches that some End Times believers consider Barack Obama a serious contender for the Antichrist, I’ve kept my antennae out for the ongoing development of this discourse. Though certain conservatives floated the idea as a trial balloon during the presidential campaign—notably in an interview with John Hagee on the Glenn Beck show—that rhetoric has seldom been heard in the public squ…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

In early April of last year, at a conference in Jerusalem of American evangelicals organized by Pastor John Hagee, Benjamin Netanyahu told the audience that Israel had no better friends than America’s Christian Zionists. “This is a friendship of the heart, a friendship of common roots, and a friendship of common civilization,” Netanyahu said. Now, nearly a year later, with Netanyahu cobbling together a ruling coalition in Israel, three men of the…

True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular

By Joseph Laycock

This June, HBO will launch the second season of True Blood, a soap opera featuring psychics, vampires, and shape-shifters based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris. The story takes place in a world where vampires have discovered a synthetic beverage that can slake their thirst for blood. No longer a threat to humans, many vampires reveal themselves to the public, form advocacy groups, and begin dating human waitresses. Se…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

Yahoo has just bought the domain name “OMG.com” for a cool 80K. They plan, it is assumed, to use the URL for their newish entertainment portal, which serves up “celebrity gossip, news, babies, couples, hotties, and more—omg!” Oh my God. It is certainly safe to say, at the very least, that the word “God” is the most vacuous word in the English language. In 21st-century America, no other word is so empty of meaning that it can span linguistic usage…

Mennonite in a Midlife Crisis (of Faith)

By Brittany Shoot

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home By Rhoda Janzen (Henry Holt and Company, 2009) Which is better: to battle against religious stereotypes, or to have a faith completely unknown to others? In my case, my family’s religious persuasion—the Church of God, the congregational Christian church based in Anderson, Indiana—is often mistaken for something else, if not entirely misunderstood. I may not be the best person to explain no…

Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

When members of the anti-gay group the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) gathers next month in Philadelphia for their annual convention, they’ll be facing a lot of baggage—theirs certainly, but also luggage being brought to them in protest. Truth Wins Out, a group that works to expose the scientific quackery of groups like NARTH, will sponsor a “Lift My Luggage” protest on Nov. 6: The notorious “ex-gay” group…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Update II: Go here for full hoax story. Update: Box Turtle Bulletin is now reporting that despite several different sources on this story, it may well not be true. Yes, a young man was murdered, but his connection to Integrity Uganda is now being questioned. Sources in the U.S. and Uganda now tell me that the young man in question was not connected with Integrity Uganda, and that Bishop Christopher Senyonjo did not make the statement attributed t…

How Should Mormons Respond to Leader’s Anti-Gay Comments?

By Joanna Brooks

Laura Compton is a member of the LDS Church, a mother of two young children, and the voice of Mormons for Marriage, a grassroots group of Mormons supportive of LGBT equality organized during the Proposition 8 campaign. She lives in Northern California. How are Mormons who support marriage equality responding to Elder Boyd K. Packer’s recent General Conference talk on homosexuality? Many people responded with sadness, anger or resignation that it’…

LDS Apostle Says Same-Sex Attraction Can be Overcome

By Joanna Brooks

There are so many messages to take away from this weekend’s 180th Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which drew more than 100,000 visitors to the LDS Conference Center and was watched and listened to by cable, satellite, and internet transmission in 92 languages by millions more around the world. Those who tuned in heard Dieter Uchtdorf, a member of the Church’s First Presidency, promote a timely me…