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Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…Young Earth Creationism, McLeroy, a dentist from College Station told the Dallas Morning News last year, “Creationism and intelligent design don’t belong in our science classes. Anything taught in science has to have consensus in the science community—and intelligent design does not.” But just as Buckingham’s arguments for intelligent design were intertwined with his religious views, McLeroy has been clear in his support for restoring God to scie…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…s of probation for skimming charity funds. Catholic bishops from Miami and Dallas are making a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. Is corrupt football coach Jim Tressel an evangelical embarrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scandal out of…

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

…et their Fauci ouchies. Even hardcore Trump loyalists like First Baptist – Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, have done so. Despite the interventions of people like Jeffress and Graham, according to PRRI data gathered in March, a full 26% of white evangelicals maintain that they will not, under any circumstances, agree to be vaccinated against Covid (another…

Doonesbury Cartoons Cause Controversy, But for Wrong Reasons

By Sarah Posner

…adds: “By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape.” The Dallas Morning News has decided to run this week’s strip because Trudeau’s “take on the Texas law is ‘fair comment.’” The refusal by some papers to run the strip out of fear of offending conservatives is itself worthy of satire. Setting all that aside, though, and turning to a more serious issue, Trudeau’s comparison of the transvaginal probe to rape repeats a troublesome…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…m our demons? The murders of Alton B. Sterling, Philando Castile, the five Dallas police officers, and the other black men killed last week who did not make the news show us our oppression. The problem with invoking the demonic is that such invocation has been used as a rhetorical band-aid to cover a wound far too serious to imagine recovery. Yet we must invoke the demonic now not to cover over what Wendell Berry called the racial wound but in ord…

We Regret to Inform You That You Do Not Mirror the Holy Family

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ys all applicable laws, then offering an implicit threat. According to the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson said that “It would be tragic if Catholic Charities were not able to provide this help, in accordance with the Gospel values and family, assistance that is so essential to these children who are vulnerable to being mistreated as meaningless in society.” In other words: Catholic Charities might rather go out of business th…

Tim Tebow Takes a Knee, Cancels Appearance at Controversial Megachurch Celebration

By Joanna Brooks

…ebow of having a “hate date” with Robert Jeffress, the outspoken leader of Dallas’ First Baptist Church, Tebow called Jeffress at home this week to let him know he’d be cancelling his scheduled appearance at First Baptist on April 28, a scheduled celebration of the 11,000-member church’s new $115 million home. In a series of tweets, Tebow told his public that he cancelled because he wanted to keep it positive: “I will continue to use the platform…

The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ian theology with charismatic zeal into a force that cannot be stopped!” A number of scholars and journalists across a wide range of interests and concerns have written about the significance of the Latter Rain.** This is notable in light of the dearth of contemporary reporting on the Dominionism of NAR, a dearth that effectively erases the past. Of course, all of this is not entirely new. Indeed, the idea of dominion has roots in the 19th and ear…

Is Tim Tebow Marginalizing the Religious Right?

By Sarah Posner

…I discuss Tim Tebow’s decision not to attend festivities at First Baptist Church in Dallas with the Huffington Post’s Paul Raushenbush, who argues his move “sidelines” the religious right. Or is it about image? Watch:…

Mormon-Baiting Pastor’s New Fame Should Help Him Sell His New Book

By Joanna Brooks

When Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas’ First Baptist Church stormed into the Values Voter Summit on October 7 and announced to a scrum of reporters that Mormonism was a “cult” and that voting for Mitt Romney meant giving “credibility to a cult,” was he: A. On a mission from God to defeat an unorthodox strand of Christianity? B. On a mission from Rick Perry to defeat Mitt Romney? or C. On a mission to pump up his own media profile in advance of th…