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Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms

By Sarah Posner

…liminary exit polling shows that if Jones is right about overall declining numbers of white Southern evangelicals, they nonetheless turned out in much higher percentages than in Jones’ data, exerting an opposite force from the one Jones predicted. 1. ARKANSAS. In his October 17 Atlantic piece, Jones wrote: In Arkansas, where Republican and freshman Representative Tom Cotton is locked in a tight race with two-term Democratic Senator Mark Pryor, the…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

…ism must be evil is ignored; as is that fact that Halloween incorporates a number of elements and influences that have accrued during its journey through various cultures. In truth, some of these elements are Christian, like the feast of the dead that attempted to maintain communion with the saints, both living and deceased. The Roman Catholic Church continues to include this element in its festivities, and thus, as historian Ronald Hutton argues…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

Hamas’ October 7 attack was monstrous. Hundreds killed at a music festival along with hundreds more in their homes or on the streets. Women and children butchered on a kibbutz in the south. In response Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water and electricity to the region. The rhetoric coming out of the Israeli government has raised fears of genocide, with 2.3 million civilians trapped in a tiny stri…

Arizona Supreme Court Rules Against Disenfranchisement — But Privacy Issues Remain

By Steven Gardiner

…hey were not correctly registered. There is no evidence that a significant number of the Arizona residents caught up in this bureaucratic mix-up are non-citizens or otherwise ineligible to vote. Chief Justice Ann Timmer justified the decision: “We are unwilling, on these facts, to disenfranchise voters en masse from participating in state contests.” Yet the controversy surrounding the voters caught in the citizenship and identification mix-up does…

Dear Public Employee: Think the Government is “Hostile to Religion”? Get Another Job.

By Hollis Phelps

…s others on both sides of the fence were somewhat caught off guard when on October 10 a federal judge in North Carolina struck down the ban. Same-sex weddings began almost immediately, and have continued since. Not seamlessly, of course. Although the LGBTQIA community and their allies have roundly embraced the October 10 ruling, those who originally backed the amendment have been scrambling for remedies. Except for a few diehards, it seems that ve…

Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ty measures imposed by Europe in the summer; a threatened Greek default in October; the inexplicable decision by the Greek Prime Minister George Panadreiou to call for a nationwide referendum on a deal immediately after the Europeans had hammered it out, thereby enabling the Greeks to pay off their debt to French and German banks at fifty cents on the euro. The shock of this unexpected proposal caused Papandreiou’s almost immediate resignation, an…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…earch Council and Focus on the Family Hammer Obama on Abortion On Tuesday, October 14, the Family Research Council announced that is FRC Action PAC would be running $100,000 worth of radio and television advertisements in battleground states attacking Senator Barack Obama’s position on abortion. The ad is “aimed at educating voters on … Obama’s promise to make the radical ‘Freedom of Choice Act’ his top priority as president,” an FRC Action PAC pr…

Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…entless deluge of information constantly comes at us every day on our smartphones and computers,” says Schevitz. But this is not always the case. As Schoenfeld notes, “If you live in an isolated, rural area where there is not a Jewish community, not driving a car on Shabbat has a very different effect in terms of your connections to others than it does for someone in a city. That doesn’t mean you don’t observe the law, but that observance will me…

The David Lane Effect

By Sarah Posner

…y campaign to put Jeffress front and center at the Values Voters Summit on October 7 as the face of evangelical anti-Mormonism, just that he was quite pleased with the outcome. The email exchanges between Lane and Bott took place after the Values Voters Summit, on October 12, with after-the-fact praising of what Jeffress had done. (Lane: “Getting out Dr. Jeffress [sic] message, juxtaposing traditional Christianity to the false god of Mormonism, is…

At Religion Newswriters Meeting, Obama Campaign Bans TV Cameras [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ven at mtg of journalists #RNA2012#notright — Kim Lawton (@KimLawtonRandE) October 5, 2012 The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but let’s examine the optics and ramifications of this for a moment. It’s a conference of reporters. Does the campaign think (a) this is a good idea in the first place and (b) it would go over well with a roomful of reporters (and anyone watching the C-Span live feed, which was also cut…