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Will the new Jurassic Park movie be an anti-GMO adventure?

By Michael Schulson

…genetics than a century of digging up bones,” a hubristic scientist (Bryce Dallas Howard) intones midway through the trailer. “A whole new frontier has opened up. We have our first genetically modified hybrid.” Cue the dramatic music and bubbling laboratory equipment, before neatly-dressed-scientist transitions to a scene featuring an earthy man in a brown vest, with fashionable scruff–Chris Pratt, looking like a cross between Indiana Jones and yo…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…and ministry on his television show, and he soon began to feature musical numbers and dancing—behaviors prohibited in traditional Pentecostal denominations—as a way to both reach supporters and promote ORU. Far from the stereotype of the illiterate Pentecostal, Roberts’ plans included not only a university, but the City of Faith, a medical complex which included a nursing school, dental school, and hospital. Believing that God had divinely inspir…

Tea Party Needs a History Lesson on Islam in America

By Michael J. Altman

Phillip Dennis, a Tea Party leader in Dallas, Texas, has “a big problem with Islam.” In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Dennis said Obama “certainly has a soft spot in his heart for Islam” and that the current president has done more to reach out to Muslims than any other leader in American history. Dennis also disputes the president’s recent claim “that Islam has always played a major part in this country.” As he puts it, “Our founding…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…he assassination of John F. Kennedy. Baker shows that Bush was actually in Dallas on November 21, 1963, and was probably there on the day of the assassination as well. Baker draws no particular conclusions from the fact, except to document, describe, and underscore the great lengths he took to conceal it. Watergate: Baker asserts that (much to his own surprise) Richard Nixon, while not innocent, was not the instigator of the Watergate crimes and c…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…victories—a favorite tactic of the Right—in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Dallas, and calls on believers to “find anyone in church that’s not registered to vote, register them to vote and get them to vote their biblical values,” claiming that church mobilizations, and efforts by groups like Moms for Liberty, were key to these local victories. Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Senior Pastor at Free Chapel, based in Georgia, exclaims during his speech that…

Evangelical Sexperiment

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ist megachurch in Grapevine, Texas—20,000 souls strong, with satellites in Dallas and Miami—has been admonished to start having more sex. Marital sex, that is. The Reverend Ed Young, aged 47, has proposed what he coyly refers to as a “sexperiment,” challenging his married congregants to have sex every day over the course of a single week. His single congregants presented a distinct problem to the proposal, of course: “I dunno, try eating chocolate…

Texas Board of Education Sets Sights on Islam

By Lauri Lebo

…textbooks and warns of a “pro-Islam anti-Christian bias.” According to the Dallas Morning News: Members of the board’s social conservative bloc asked for the resolution after an unsuccessful candidate for a board seat called on the panel to head off any bias against Christians in new social studies books. Some contend that “Middle Easterners” are increasingly buying into companies that publish textbooks. A preliminary draft of the resolution state…

Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…Chandler for Texas Monthly, explaining how the quick-witted, 30-something Dallas megachurch pastor had become a star in that movement, and how he had coped, publicly and courageously, with a cancer diagnosis. What I didn’t mention was our discussion about gay rights. On the day I visited his church, he preached on the pitfalls of pornography and the dangers of illicit desire, but there was no mention of the horrors of homosexuality. That seemed o…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…end, Raleigh Washington, now PK’s President. There was Tony Evans too, the Dallas-based pastor who, back in the day, incensed the movement’s critics when he told the guys at the stadium rallies to take back their rightful place as the head of the family, urging their women to submit. They all looked a little older, grayer, and to my eyes, a little less threatening. Understanding Promise Keepers, studying it, fighting it, or defending it became a k…