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More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

…at largely happened through innovation, including the Christian television talk show format, which Bakker pioneered with Pat Robertson at the Christian Broadcasting Network in the 1960s, PTL’s private satellite network, launched in 1978, a year before ESPN, and the theme park, Heritage USA. The Bakkers signature television show, the PTL Club, was broadcast live, five days a week, with little scripting. Tammy once did an episode on a merry-go-round…

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Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

…don Review of Books contributor Sadakat Kadri whose new book might help us talk about Shari’ah. Heaven on Earth is the kind of book that can appeal to the curious, as well as the intellectually serious—that strange product which actually leaves you knowing more about Islam than you did before you started.  Kadri’s book is smart, fun, wide-ranging, well researched, and remarkably thorough for its length, though I had, as you’ll see, several critici…

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Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

…prophets and faith-fueled apocalypticists. One is that the enviros aren’t talking about a single catastrophic moment or event but rather a series of events—albeit rapidly evolving—that will dramatically transform conditions on the planet. Another is that the enviros don’t believe for a minute that after the very bad days there will be some kind of clearing or deliverance in the way that millenarian Christians believe.  A third difference has to d…

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Franklin Graham Defends Himself from Birtherism Charges by Engaging in… Birtherism

…st of the GOP field: There are candidates out there other than who we have talked about who are very good people who I could support. Mike Huckabee is a great man. He is a preacher. No question this man is saved. I like Mike Huckabee a lot. You have Sarah Palin, who is a fine lady, who has great experience as governor, as a mayor, a very successful author, good family. Her husband is a man’s man. He is one tough guy. Her kids are nice. When they t…

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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

…t allow them to come into our country and proselytize in their mosques and talk about overthrowing our government, our constitutional democracy, and replace it with shari’ah… it’s sedition.” Shari’ah Is Already Here “The threat of Sharia has even begun to strike in the United States,” reads a dire warning on the website RadicalIslam.org, maintained by the Clarion Fund. “Today you can find closed communities of Radical Muslims across the United Sta…

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Pastor Rob Bell Catches Hell From Conservatives

…munication by tweet.  Disagreeing with God I was immediately reminded of a talk I gave a bit over a year ago to a group of Christian faculty about my last book, Is God a Delusion? And although that book is a critique of the new atheist attack on religion, somehow during the discussion period the conversation turned to Christian universalism. One of the more conservative people in the audience (we’ll call him Jim) said rather forcefully that Jesus…

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Scalia’s (Not Very Catholic, Right Wing) Originalism

…c sexual morality. As John Allen notes in Crux, he had occasion in 2012 to talk to Scalia about the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Scalia told him that if the Catholic bishops wanted an exemption, “they should try to get it through the democratic process.” But then he turned around and voted in the Hobby Lobby case for a much more consequential and precedent-shattering exemption for for-profit business owners rather than insist…

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Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

…. Almost nobody with a soapbox, and (sadly) none of our religious leaders, talks about broader GOP campaign to strangle what remains of the welfare state. The corporate media let well-fed white guys like Freedom Caucus leader Jim Jordan talk about the need not to saddle his children and grandchildren with government debt, but they never ask about the debt and disadvantage that is already saddled on the backs of poor children and youth of color. An…

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The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

…issed the holiday as “an excuse for people to get sloshed on green beer or talk about leprechauns and four leafed clovers,” he’s come to see St. Patrick’s Day as a “powerful means of enfleshing the gospel.” For Jones, his appreciation for the saint was inculcated in the community of which he’s a member, an ecumenical fellowship named after a two kilometer-long isle, with a population a bit over a hundred, located in the Inner Hebrides off the west…

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Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

…extual equivalent of adding air quotes and rolling one’s eyes—like when we talk about Donald Trump’s support for so-called traditional marriage. (He’s such a proponent of the Biblical definition of marriage he’s been married three times, after all!) This simple piece of punctuation casts doubt on the validity—or even the very existence—of the subject in question, signaling to readers that they should be skeptical of any explanation or justificatio…

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