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Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

…hat may be because he wanted it that way. Nevertheless, when North died in Georgia recently at age 80, he’d quietly become one of the notable religious and political architects of our time. He was a prolific author and an éminence grise of the Christian Right who never gave media interviews, but who, in an ultimate irony, received major obituary notices from Christianity Today and The New York Times (publications he loathed) and not much elsewhere…

Desecration of Graves at Burr Oak Cemetery in Illinois: Why’s it So Disturbing?

By Gary Laderman

…ors to dissect; or more recently, the tri-state crematory scandal in North Georgia with bodies left unburied on the grounds, defiled ashes after cremation, and living family members outraged by the disgraceful management of their dead. Now with relatives of more than 7,000 bodies questioning the treatment and care of the dead entrusted to the Burr Oak Cemetery in Illinois, the American public is gripped by the indignity associated with the desecra…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…hat Israel could “advance the cause of peace” by taking steps to “ease the freedom of Palestinians, improve economic conditions,” and “refrain from building settlements.” This is more than either Hillary Clinton or John McCain was willing to say in their talks before the AIPAC convention. And, unlike the Bush administration, which last year successfully pressured Israel not to resume peace negotiations with Syria, Obama declared that his administr…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…Foreign observers—those who are friendly to the United States but who are free of any VRS-related confusion—are far less certain that everything will come out right in the end. But then, foreign observers have long looked askance at the democratic bona fides of this boastful republic of ours. They understand that voter suppression here is hardly a new phenomenon. They find it hard to comprehend how holding consequential elections on a Tuesday in…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…ates is remarkably regimented and structured. I am always amazed by how so freedom-loving and rebellious a people are so willing to buckle down and accept long work hours, long work weeks, and long years of work. The American workspace is not structured for 20-minute prayer breaks. I remember praying the optional night-prayer (yes, people add more prayers to the five-daily!) at 3am, spending an hour in a single cycle of prayer. It is one of the be…

Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…peyote possession and use. Only members of federally recognized tribes are free from prosecution but the church includes members without tribal ancestry. An Irish judge ordered a man to climb the country’s holiest mountain as punishment for swearing at police officers. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, warns that yoga maybe a danger to a Christian’s faith. The city of Gainesville is billing the local pastor who…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…within evangelicalism, like the prominent Texas Republican, David Barton, promote the idea that America is slouching toward Gomorrah. America is God’s chosen republic, Barton asserts: the nation has been an explicitly Christian country from its earliest days and needs to reverse its sinful migration away from its biblical roots. Professional historians, by contrast (including leading evangelicals like Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden)…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ntified video is reminiscent of another video, of a mass infant baptism in Georgia, which also elicited controversy, predominately in Western Europe and North America. The Snopes article concludes, “…it’s clear that the baptismal practice depicted isn’t all that uncommon.” And that’s true. Millions of infants have been baptised this way over centuries (including me, by the way). What’s uncommon is for an infant to die, as was the case last week. S…

Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to ‘Black Genocide’

By Michelle Goldberg

…rator Markus Lloyd argues that the Maafa “did not end when the slaves were freed… a hidden racial agenda is keeping the Maafa alive into the 21st century.” That sounds true enough, though Lloyd isn’t talking about poverty, or educational disparities, or the legacy of Jim Crow—he’s talking about family planning and abortion rights. What follows is a highly selective, distorted history of the reproductive rights movement. To be sure, that movement h…

Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy

By Arri Eisen

…souls and saving whales can (and should) happen together: Look at what the Georgia Interfaith Power and Light group is doing: inspecting places of worship for energy-use effectiveness and then awarding grant monies to make improvements; the Evangelical Environmental Network and the evolving concept of creation care; a synagogue in Evanston, Illinois awarded the highest level of certification by the US Green Building Council. Would I still be luggi…