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New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…ermines the “sanctity and permanence of marriage.” A 2018 resolution on spousal abuse states that “spousal abuse dishonors the marriage covenant and fundamentally blasphemes the relationship between Christ and the church,” but fails to clarify whether the church’s recommendation for a woman’s “separation” from an abusive husband can take the form of a divorce. As long as the SBC clings to doctrines in favor of women’s submission and against divorc…

Is the NY Times “Dumbing Down” Religion?

By Lisa Webster

…R a few weeks ago, even with the lively hed, “Dumbing Religion Down in the New York Times.” A must-read, as it turns out. The focus of Wieseltier’s passionate annoyance, Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, responded a few days later in The Immanent Frame. And she was gracious, calling it a “distinct honor” to be lambasted by someone as “lettered” as Wieseltier (although calling TNR’s literary editor “lettered” is like calling the Dalai Lama a…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…an King Cyrus, who freed Jewish prisoners and helped build the temple in Jerusalem. This provided evangelicals with a remarkable escape hatch from the political and moral norms that previously governed most evangelical engagement in public life. These two elements also animate the NAR’s activities internationally. ‘It’s a 7M world’ In his book, God’s Chaos Code, 7 Mountains strategist and thought leader Lance Wallnau, who also serves as a Teacher…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…rsity of South Alabama historian and author of Bill Bright and the Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America, told me recently: To me, it’s [Seven Mountains] just a catchy phrase that encapsulates what Bright and many other evangelical leaders were already doing — trying to increase Christian influence (they would probably use more militant phrases like “capture”) in the spheres of education, business, and governm…

Tea Party, Circa 1930s: A Response to Michael Kazin

By Diane Winston

…worker initiatives, and the right’s focus shifted from the New Deal to the New World Order. Conservative organizations still roiled local waters. In the 1950s, populist movements fought secular humanism in California’s public schools, and in the 1960s, millions mobilized around Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. By the late 1970s, strong grassroots groups in California, the Ozarks, the Midwest, and the South came together in the New Right/Ch…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ered took the form of a rhetorical question: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Nothing at all, he concluded. This is an even pithier way of expressing the know-nothingism he deemed essential to Christian faith. Jerusalem was the city, not just of prophecy, but of the paradigmatically impossible and unbelievable event: God’s son dying as a sacrifice for the rest of the world. And Athens? Nothing more than an aging university town seduced by i…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…Web site, online presence, or apparent physical location), Chaplain to the New York Police Department, and a member of the Domestic Policy Council in the Clinton Administration. Impressive, perhaps, for the Christian speakers’ circuit, but not for diplomacy. So why would President Obama choose Cook? Dr. Sujay’s resumé, with no discernible international policy experience, her close ties to the Clinton administration, and several ill-defined busines…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…more likely there will be press following Pakistani artists around—but thousands and thousands of people attend concerts in Kuala Lampur, and there is already a Malaysian scene for “Western” music, you’ll find Malay skinheads, punks, metalheads, and rappers. Pakistan is mostly a place for ballads, and bhangra. Q: Assuming international impact, are we seeing transnational connections being made? For example, the UK Asian Underground, the US/Indian…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…the King Phillip’s War with the Wampanoag Indians, necessitating the construction of a new identity separate from that of their mother country. It’s around this time that men like Cotton Mather began to refer to white settlers as “Americans,” a designation which other colonial powers such as the Spanish and French, and indeed English settlers in the South, reserved exclusively for the Indians. For a long time there was an ambivalence about the Pu…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…the King Phillip’s War with the Wampanoag Indians, necessitating the construction of a new identity separate from that of their mother country. It’s around this time that men like Cotton Mather began to refer to white settlers as “Americans,” a designation which other colonial powers such as the Spanish and French, and indeed English settlers in the South, reserved exclusively for the Indians. For a long time there was an ambivalence about the Pu…