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Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…le, some of the same organizations teamed up to fight for Proposition 8 in California, and last year mobilized against health care reform, which they depicted as part of the “culture of death.” The religious right is trying to find its footing in the tea party environment. It isn’t dead, by any stretch of the imagination, last night’s moribund activities here notwithstanding. Still, judging from last night’s lackluster performance, it hasn’t quite…

Conservative and Liberal Voices Combine to Condemn Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…il. Rodriguez also signed the Manhattan Declaration and was a supporter of California’s Proposition 8 to overturn marriage equality in that state, and has been called the “Karl Rove of Hispanic evangelical strategy.” Another notable signer is Mercer University professor and author David Gushee, who has refused to sign the Manhattan Declaration. Other names on the statement are no surprise like Rev. Debra Haffner from the Religious Institute, which…

Bishop John Shelby Spong Declares Victory: Is it Premature?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e course of time. Let us take interracial marriage as an example. In 1948, California became the first state to overturn a state ban on interracial marriages. At that time 30 of the 48 states had bans on interracial marriage. By 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage in the Loving v. Virginia case, 16 states still had bans on the books. The judge that had sentenced Richard and Mildred Loving to jail for daring t…

The Christian Reconstructionism Dodge

By Sarah Posner

…John Birch Society, the Republican candidate for the congressional seat in California’s 37th district, and an exemplar of the religious right’s efforts to reach African-American voters, is an expressed admirer of Rushdoony. When she approvingly cited his theology to the crowd assembled at the Values Voters Summit a few years ago, no one blinked an eye. That’s because Christian Reconstructionism isn’t a secret conspiracy waiting to be unearthed by…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…Games-fatigued American public will turn its attention toward Lake Forest, California, where Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church, and author of the mega-bestseller The Purpose-Driven Life, will host both presumptive presidential nominees, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). While the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion will not be a debate—interviews will be done separately and in succession—and the two m…

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…day it has 22,000 members and operates from a large campus in Lake Forest, California, which includes a middle school and high school with an enrollment of 1500. These accomplishments are impressive, no doubt, but his international celebrity and the moniker “America’s Pastor,” are largely the product of a best-selling self-help devotional, The Purpose Driven Life. Stunning skeptical publishers, the book has sold 25 million copies and is, according…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…uhammad) has made some Muslim scholars nervous. The University of Southern California offers a searchable online hadith collection, in English, which is prefaced by a “warning” issued “especially for Muslims.” The warning explains that the early scholars of hadith were experts in the “critical science of collecting and evaluating ahadeeth,” and that students were required first to learn from the scholars how to utilize the hadith correctly. Today,…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…tion—or to give money. (Look at the roster of church-related donors to the California campaign to rescind same-sex marriage.) In recent decades, many of the most authoritarian Christian denominations have staked a large part of their authority on the reiterated condemnation of homosexuality. To back away from it, to give up chanting the refrains of condemnation, would be to risk the claims of authority altogether. These are powerful motives. Like…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…as Obama’s second visit) for the campaign’s first “debate” at his Southern California megachurch, boasts that he wants to roll back the clock not to the 1950s but to “the 19th century. That was a time of muscular Christianity that cared about every aspect of life.” It was also a time of empire. A man of his word, Warren has built one of his own, recently branding Rwanda the first officially “Purpose-Driven nation,” after his international bestsell…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ch celebrated and talked about pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, interviewed Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain on Saturday, August 16. Before and after the event, Warren’s Civic Forum received a lot of media attention. Many in the media have anointed Warren as representing the new face of Christian evangelicals; creating a new movement that not only distances itself from the old timers of the Religious Right, but o…