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Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…was modeled on Engle’s interpretation of the solemn assembly described in Joel 2, which in turn shaped TheCall. Engle himself has traveled to Sacramento, Washington, and Kampala to praise efforts to restrict the rights of LGBT people and has led elected Republicans in a prayer session that predicted God would punish America for passing health care reform. But most relevant here was the vacuity of the content: The solution to America’s great crisi…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…hed it, I started all over again. What other choice did I have? As an Anglophone Muslim, it’s a little harder to get the same range at your local bookstore’s Islam section. Firstly you might find Islam under ‘eastern religions,’ which is like finding your parents’ cuisine under ‘ethnic food’ (white people, apparently, don’t have an ethnicity, to which the universe has responded with Jersey Shore.) Then, when you actually locate Islam—organizationa…

Op-Ed: God’s Will in Iraq: Sarah Palin and America’s Global Mission

By Joel Schalit

When Sarah Palin said that America was carrying out God’s will in Iraq, the Alaskan governor caused a stir. What was the problem, exactly? What, precisely, was so upsetting? On the surface, nothing new was being said here. Like many of the country’s Christians, Palin was simply justifying the war on religious grounds, seeing it as consistent with revelation. Besides, Americans have grown accustomed to hearing their politicians spout religious rhe…

#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…ees with as “Antichrist legislation.”) While others, such as Obama adviser Joel Hunter, may be still advocates for “common ground,” their efforts have been resoundingly overshadowed by increasingly vocal and successful anti-abortion activists who are making gains in restricting access to abortion and family planning. Yet when a real centrist pipes up against the conventional wisdom, the Obama administration shuts its eyes and ears. Last week, when…

Hating Both the “Sin” and the “Sinner”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…atred, rejection, and wrath over my “sin.” At least one right-wing leader, Joel McDurman, who is director of research for American Vision, an ultra-fundamentalist “Christian Reconstructionist” group in Georgia, would say I’m right in that assessment, and anti-gay Christians should just give up the whole charade of “loving” gay people while hating their “sin,” and instead, hate both the sinner and their sin. The evangelical mantra has always been “…

Just in Time for Darwin Sunday, Washington Post Misses the Point

By Lauri Lebo

…perspective. If you look at the basic tenets of the world’s religions, as Joel Martin has in his book The Prism and the Rainbow, you’ll see that religions and denominations representing a large majority of adherents across the globe are fully comfortable with evolution. Similarly, The Clergy Letter Project, with its more than 13,000 American clergy from various traditions, fully demonstrates how deeply religious individuals can be fully comfortab…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…e author of Progressive & Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life. In addition to Rachel Laser of Third Way, other lead signatories of the Come Let Us Reason Together Governing Agenda include Rev. Joel Hunter of Northland Church, Dr. David Gushee of Mercer University, Rev. Sam Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Ron S…

Prosperity Gospel Prayers Aren’t Sufficient to Save Hurricane Victims

By Tony Keddie

…eling that God “is making a way for you.” But you need to act on this way. Joel Osteen, the Prosperity Gospel televangelist who was reluctant to open his megachurch’s stadium doors to the victims of Hurricane Harvey, elaborates on this notion of favor in his book, It’s Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams, and Increase in God’s Favor, by citing Jesus’s promise in the gospel of Luke “to declare the year of the Lord’s favor” (4:18). O…

History Channel’s The Bible Keeps Conservatives (Mostly) Happy and Jesus White

By Paul Harvey

… by treading carefully through the Old Testament material. Rick Warren and Joel Osteen provide testimonials and urge viewers to organize all-church viewings and discuss the film using the ready-made study guides and other supplemental material. Glenn Beck pushed the film as well with a segment featuring one of the series’ consultants, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, who said that “this series has the potential of emerging as the most-watched series in cabl…

Because God Tells Me So; Do Jews Have a “Historic Right” to Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…commitment to, Israel as an essential part of American Jewish identity. A number of factors contribute to this commitment, and they’ve shifted over the past few decades. Among the most tangled and oft-cited, however, is the claim, made by both Jews (inside and outside Israel) and Palestinians, that their people have a “historic right” to this contested land. Theology Won’t Work on the World Stage In the ongoing debate about the legitimate rights…