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Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…olled, the people sang hymns and the fire burned.” Wagner’s books remain influential in the NAR, a dynamic organizational revamping and politicization of much of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. The movement is still not well known, despite major coverage in, among others, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Salon, and The New Republic. The rise of the NAR, and the growth of the wider charismatic movement, has come largely at the expense…

Intensive Care: Preachers’ Daughters Episode Five Recap

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ll use the term “mix tape”?) While she’s out and completely unreachable by phone, her dad, Ken, goes into the hospital with breathing difficulties and is admitted to intensive care. Taylor finally gets the message, is stricken with remorse and concern, prays for her dad’s healing, and resolves to be more responsible. My Dinner with Frankie: Mark and Cheryl Perry invited their teenage daughter Olivia’s friend Frankie over for dinner. Since Olivia h…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…gns of the water’s path: parked cars askew in the street, on the sidewalk; flooded basement after flooded basement; ribbons of detritus strewn in patterns that look like the banks of a rushing stream. As if it had been following the outlines of the map the flood stopped just short of Avenue B, not touching our Orange side of the street. * Zooming in, zooming out—calculating the odds. It gave me a desperately needed illusion of control in the face…

The Environmental Politics of Vodou, New Orleans Style

By Joseph Laycock

…ew Orleanean fusion of traditional African elements with other spiritual influences.) Glassman is also a social innovator. Ethnographies like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola have already demonstrated how Vodou priestesses are a resource for the community they serve––acting like social workers and therapists as well as sources of supernatural guidance and power. But Glassman has endeavored to create a more institutional form of support. With her h…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…to try to make a difference in Muslim homes.” Peru: Presidential candidate flip-flops, tells Christian activists she would oppose civil unions Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the disgraced former president and leader of the Fuerza Popular political party, told evangelical Christian activists that a Fujimori administration would not promote civil unions or adoption rights for same-sex couples, and would oppose abortion except to…

From A Belize Jungle, A Look At Creationist “Outreach” in Vancouver

By Lauri Lebo

…in-the-dark ignorance is now being paraded before the rest of the world in Vancouver. Ken Ham’s apologetics organization Answers in Genesis is holding what it calls its “Olympic Outreach.” AiG is the organization behind the Kentucky-based Creation Museum, which claims that the Book of Genesis is not only literally true, but that they have the science to prove it. The museum features Disney World-like robot dinosaurs, a replica of Noah’s Ark built…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…in anal sex. This wave of arrests and raids began after gay-pride rainbow flags were flown at a concert by a Lebanese indie-rock band, Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead singer, Hamed Sinno, is openly gay. It was not the first time fans displayed rainbow flags at a Mashrou’ Leila concert, a gay friend who has attended some of the band’s previous concerts in Cairo reminds me. He also reminds me that rainbow flags were flown in Tahrir Square during the 18…

To: Discovery Institute;
Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…ontroversy to begin with—not for the roughly 99.95% of scientists with relevant expertise, anyway. That’s in fact the whole point. In any case, he then recounts a rather nasty disagreement that we had on the phone during the Dover trial back in 2005. I have to admit his recollection is pretty accurate. At one point he said, “How dare you say that we’re stupid.” I told him that I wasn’t calling him stupid. Not at all. I was calling him dishonest. W…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…ye. I even volunteered to start a discipulado, or Bible study, with Pastor Valmir Delgado, of the Comunidade Evangélica Vida Plena church. And when confronted by a back-slapping pastor from Minas Gerais, moonlighting as a chauffeur, and facing off from across a pamphlet-strewn table in his church lobby, I finally felt free to lay bare my split beliefs. Sort of. I told him that I was raised Catholic, like millions of Brazilian evangelicals were bef…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…just wrong. Narrow-minded, misconceived. Evolutionary social science has advanced tremendously over the last couple of decades, and humanists ought to pay attention. We now know a lot about human nature and about the complex interplay between biology and culture, and these findings have major consequences for the study of imaginative culture such as literature and film. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Yeah, an intelligent an…