Religion Dispatches
…I discuss Tim Tebow’s decision not to attend festivities at First Baptist Church in Dallas with the Huffington Post’s Paul Raushenbush, who argues his move “sidelines” the religious right. Or is it about image? Watch:…
Read More…to the press. In 2012, the keynote speaker was Glenn Beck, whose pastor in Dallas, Robert Morris of Gateway Church, supports MJBI. MJBI announced the Duck Dynasty appearances in an email today, and its website promotes the evening, called “Inexpressible Joy,” as light-hearted entertainment: Spend a fun filled evening with the Duck Commander himself, Phil Robertson, and other stars from the mega hit show, A&E’s Duck Dynasty. They’ll share heartwarm…
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…unkind things to say about Ellen DeGeneres palling around with Shrub at a Dallas football stadium. Shame on them! cries LaParra, not bothering to consider that Ellen could be leveraging celebrity rather than simply loving her neighbor in very publicly sucking up to the author of most of the Middle Eastern chaos and suffering we’re now living through. I’m taking the bait here, I realize, but somebody has to to do it. LaParra’s stance is a familiar…
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…vote on a new resolution that condemned white supremacy, according to the Dallas Morning News. McKissic was not consulted in the drafting of the new resolution, which notably lacks much of the pointed Biblical critique of white supremacy and anti-Black racism that made McKissic’s resolution powerful. The final resolution, which passed unanimously Wednesday night, does name-check “white supremacy” and the “alt-right,” but ultimately condemns “ever…
Read More…orney Marc Randazza to represent them pro bono. Randazza has represented a number of far-right figures including Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, and Andrew Anglin. TST-Santa Cruz announced their adoption of a local beach. Locals described being “shocked” that Satanists would clean up a beach but were not averse to the idea. Menstruatin’ with Satan art by Tina Scott. http://christina-scott.com TST-Arizona had a falling out with the local branch of the…
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…isplay of a “we are all domestic terrorists” banner at its 2022 meeting in Dallas. There was a great deal of talk of revolution, sacrifice, and of war in general for a supposedly “apolitical” event in Philadelphia. During the event I repeatedly heard the refrain that “not every mom for liberty is conservative”—despite the backdrop, which included a Turning Point USA booth with stickers of a milk carton with “liberal tears” and “pro-life” pins, and…
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…Girls, Some Slaves.) Sweltering in the heat of the summer, Hasidic Jews in Dallas dress in the anachronistic and unseasonable clothing of their brethren from the 17th Century Pale of Settlement, even though none of our ancient ancestors in the Second Temple period wore anything of the sort. Centuries of rabbis have attempted to eliminate or alter the Kol Nidrei prayer from Erev Yom Kippur services, only to repeatedly discover that the experience o…
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…social justice in the infamous Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel (Dallas Statement) opened the floodgates for critiques on CRT. In Article 1 it reads: We deny that Christian belief, character, or conduct can be dictated by any other authority, and we deny that the postmodern ideologies derived from intersectionality, radical feminism, and critical race theory are consistent with biblical teaching. We further deny that competency to teach…
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…et their Fauci ouchies. Even hardcore Trump loyalists like First Baptist – Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, have done so. Despite the interventions of people like Jeffress and Graham, according to PRRI data gathered in March, a full 26% of white evangelicals maintain that they will not, under any circumstances, agree to be vaccinated against Covid (another…
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…rse you” to an audience of about 17,000 evangelical Christians gathered in Dallas, Texas for an event billed as The National Affairs Briefing. Over the course of my childhood, we consolidated our power in the Republican Party, as traditionalist Catholics—at least in my more “respectable” evangelical milieu—came to be regarded less as “idolators,” and more as merely “misguided,” since, after all, they held the “correct” Christian position on aborti…
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