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Witches, Fine… Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance?

By Lisa Webster

…Kalnins back to the Morningstar Ministries and the World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs and finally to C. Peter Wagner’s so-called New Apostolic Reformation. Here’s the thing, though, and it’s not as Halloween-y as the whole witch-hunting thing sounds. It has been fun, in a sad way, to think that Gov. Palin has so little discernment that she allowed a witch-hunter to lay hands on her (see video below). But that makes the whole thing too easy t…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ought John McCain was a principled person,” Cizik told Cara DeGette of The Colorado Independent. “But John McCain has backed off, not just on climate change but on torture and a sensible tax policy—in other words, he’s not the John McCain of 2000. … He seems to be waffling on issue after issue. It’s not illogical for someone to conclude that John McCain is going to be more like George Bush than John McCain is going to be like John McCain in 2000.”…

Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church

By Lauri Lebo

I’m sitting here in the Rev. Ted Haggard’s new church of St. James in Colorado Springs, listening to him talk about love. “The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself as love,” says Haggard, who speaks softly and matter-of-factly in a collared shirt and jeans and has lost much of the bravado he once exhibited before he was outed three and a half years ago for having sex with a male prostitute and buying crystal methamphetamine from him….

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…The master narrative arrives all the way at the door of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, the megachurch that Sharlet infiltrated for a gripping 2005 feature in Harper’s . Throughout, he suggests, the power principle is at the core of American Protestant fundamentalism, and The Family is its purest manifestation. So we don’t have to, Sharlet catches himself in the act: “We keep trying to explain away American fundamentalism.” Barack Obama’s not…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…one example, James Dobson’s sprawling conglomerate has its own zip code in Colorado Springs and a larger monthly print circulation than the New York Times) and argue that it will not so easily wither on the vine. The most jaded on the left simply assert that the religious right is the truest expression of the heart of the evangelical community and is thus here to stay. If the argument that “the era of the religious right is over” depended solely o…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…ourist for these kinds of places. Before attending Ted Haggard’s church in Colorado Springs on Sunday, I visited the home of Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church last week in Topeka, Kansas last week. By the way, it’s been described by the media as a compound. It’s actually a city block of fenced-in homes in a rather nice residential neighborhood with lovely landscaping. It’s so nice that at first, I figured I was at the wrong place. But th…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…was selling the company to Eric Roza, a long-time member and gym owner in Colorado, who is, like Glassman, a white man. Roza’s first message to the community sought to win back the trust of (ex)members by denouncing sexism and racism. Affirmative comments poured in from members who were relieved to see the company sold to a fellow CrossFitter and saw the transaction as a sign that they might find solidarity once more in the CrossFit community. A…

Seek and Ye Shall Find… Anti-Gay Views

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on recently by NPR—offering built-in bias. Shea Houdmann runs SeekFind, a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from Web sites that are consistent with the Bible. He says SeekFind is designed “to promote what we believe to be biblical truth” and excludes sites that don’t meet that standard. Houdmann says a search on his site would not turn up pornography. If you search “gay marriage,” you would get results that…

Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…like McVeigh, Page had been a real soldier. Page, who was originally from Colorado, served in the army from 1992 to 1998, stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Initially he was a sergeant as a repairman for the Hawk missile system. Then he became a specialist in “psyops”—psychological operations. Though it is not clear what Page did in this branch of the service, in general psyops attempts to influence an enemy or a f…

The “Abortion Pill” Lie

By Sarah Posner

…s argument echoes that made in the cases brought by Belmont Abbey College, Colorado Christian College, and the Eternal Word Network against the Department of Health and Human Services over the new contraception coverage rule. The claim that the contraceptive coverage rule includes abortifacients is simply not true. Ella and Plan B, which are covered along with other contraception, are taken after unprotected sex to prevent an unintended pregnancy…