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Homophobic Uganda a “Purpose-Driven Nation”?

By Nick Street

…e made Uganda—with a population of 30 million in an area about the size of Georgia and South Carolina combined—a focal point for missionary work across the denominational spectrum. The country’s evangelical president-for-life, Yoweri Museveni, has received praise from George W. Bush, at whose encouragement Museveni narrowed the focus of Uganda’s HIV-prevention policy largely to exclude condom use in favor of abstinence, as well as Doug Coe, who de…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…Organization In 1948, following a successful revival campaign in Augusta, Georgia, and a cross-country drive to California, Graham and his associates (whom he always called his “team”) had met at a motel in Modesto, California. Worried about Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry caricature of itinerant preachers, Graham asked his associates to consider the pitfalls that had discredited earlier revivalists and to propose ways to avoid those perils. After…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ut only just barely—and they managed to hold the Senate in a repeat of the Georgia run-off. Some small cracks in the GOP’s resolve regarding the Big Lie have become noticeable: prominent figures on the Right, like Charlie Kirk and Laura Ingraham, used the midterm defeat to criticize the focus on alleged voter fraud and demonization of early voting—which they themselves helped facilitate. Those who predict the end of Republican cries of voter fraud…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…opean congregations in the nineteenth century. Fredericka Law of Savannah, Georgia, for example, received the habit of Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception at the Shrine of Portiuncula in Assisi, Italy in 1882. She took the religious name of Sister Benedict of the Angels and professed her perpetual vows on her deathbed one year later. She is buried in Rome. Europe’s most famous black nun is undoubtedly St. Josephine Bakhita,…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…nd demanded immediate repayment of a $12 million loan on the property.” In Georgia, the Duluth-based Global Destiny Ministries received a visit from the sheriff who “ordered Bishop Thomas Weeks II to leave the property.” Weeks—who recently divorced “popular preacher Juanita Bynum in June”—was $511,000 in arrears in “back rent” to the building’s owners. According to Grady, “He was escorted out of the building on Nov. 14 while a church service was i…

Praying to the Zombie Jesus: The Spirituality of Horror

By W. Scott Poole

…across a ruined Southern landscape. For the season premiere they’re in the Georgia countryside where they’ve found, not surprisingly, a Southern Baptist church. I’m thinking most RD readers, if they saw this most recent episode, threw some popcorn at the screen. Why? Well, apparently The Walking Dead needs to hire some historical/religious advisors because they put a gigantic bloody Jesus, hanging on a cross, in a church that’s named, simply, “Sou…

The Week in Religion, Poetically:

By Michael J. Altman

…poorly named) Bald Knob Cross of Peace in Alto Pass, Ill for restorations. Georgia based atheist group Foundation Bey beond Belief is encouraging its members to happily give money to religious charities. It remains to be seen how happy folks will be about “International Blasphemy Rights Day.” The September 30th event is being organized by the Center for Inquiry, a New York based atheist group. Got a problem? No time for church? Try drive-thru pray…

Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…oman Empire? Were the Russian Empire’s campaigns against the Ottomans into Georgia and Armenia similarly devoid of globalizing sympathies with fellow Christians? But, if we insist upon thinking that religion is only and always good, we will never entertain the way its social function to create identity can causes harm. And, that finally is something that we can be absolutely sure the mass media will never bring to the fore in its 24/7 onslaught of…

Hannibal Returns: Is TV’s Favorite Serial Killer the Devil Himself?

By Nicholas Laccetti

…and this version is nothing more than a person suit, a human veil. Perhaps Georgia—the heartbreaking murderer-of-the-week in episode 10—who cannot see faces, ironically witnessed the blankness of Lecter’s true face most clearly, even more so than Will’s vision of Lecter as a horned shadow in the final episode. His aestheticism and his sensuous curiosity know no moral boundaries, like Dorian Gray, but he doesn’t need a portrait in the attic: his fa…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…e first place, advocates for Christian nationalist ideas—meaning that they promote the myth that America is by origin and by right a Christian nation, that it’s lost its way at the hands of a militant secular elite, and that white Christians in particular are now the principal victims of persecution in American society. They’re all committed and partisan Republicans. And finally, they are disposed to believe in—or at least to promote—unsubstantiat…