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Obama’s Faith-Based Makeover

By Bill Berkowitz

…1, in a speech delivered at the Eastside Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, Sen. Barack Obama pledged that if he were elected president, he would overhaul and expand President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative. Obama’s plan for a “Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships” (a name remarkably similar Bush’s White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives) would “help set our national agenda” and deal w…

Romney Faring Better With Evangelicals… Or Just Worse With All Others?

By Joanna Brooks

…d to 38% of non-evangelicals. In Florida, the favorability gap was 18%. In Ohio, it was 14%. In Alabama, it was 7%. And in Mississippi, where Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum battled to a nearly three-way split, the favorability gap was down to 4%. So what’s happening? Perhaps reticence about or antipathy towards Mormonism is more broadly distributed among Southern Republicans, including mainline Christians, non-Christians, and the non-religious. Pe…

Touchdown Jesus Burns to the Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ms were raised up like a football referee) that sits along I-75 in Monroe, Ohio was struck by lightning – reducing the famous figure to ashes. The statue, called “King of Kings,” was built by a local 4,000 member non-denominational congregation called Solid Rock Church back in 2004 and had attracted so much attention the church built a walkway for people to come and gawk at the giant Jesus. News of Jesus’ demise brought the usual comments from po…

Romney, Tisha B’Av, and LDS Temples

By Sarah Posner

…lso section 95). The earliest temples of the restored Church were built in Ohio, Illinois, and eventually in Utah. Today, the Church has 138 operating temples around the world. Regardless of the place or time period, temples are the most sacred place on earth-a place where earth and heaven meet and where we feel close to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. For Mormons, their temples are “as sacred as Solomon’s temple.” This video has more: As Go…

Obama’s Turn to the Right

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…to solve alone,” Obama announced outside a community center in Zanesville, Ohio. While the moral imperative in any presidential hopeful’s campaign should be to help the poor, the challenge Obama actually seems to be responding to here is that of winning the votes of evangelical Christians, an important demographic group. And the poor, in this instance, become merely a political pawn. But the evangelical constituency is not buying Obama’s s…

Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…o live up to the promises in his 2008 campaign trail speech in Zanesville, Ohio. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State calls the Executive Order “disappointing,” noting that it “fails to correct significant constitutional problems and leaves important civil rights issues unresolved.” Although the group applauded the White House for some parts of the order — like providing secular alternatives and greater transparency — its execut…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…bortions are done at that hospital and they try their hardest to make that number zero.” Most doctors aren’t eager to have their medical practices subjected to criminal investigation. However, a few do wholeheartedly support the end of Roe. One of the most disturbing anecdotes in our report involved a pregnant woman who came to a hospital in Ohio with suicidal thoughts. An obstetrician involved in her care told us that an anti-abortion psychiatris…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…ut nonetheless revealing. Following the October 7 attack former Republican Ohio State Representative Candice Keller spent days posting about the Rapture on her Facebook page, championing the violence in Israel because of what she thinks it represents for her ideas of the apocalypse. The comments on these posts are all excited, talking about how soon they will meet “The King,” how the end is nigh, how the Rapture has arrived and will be here any mi…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…usp cannot hold. While Levi Dowling was born in the Midwest, in Bellville, Ohio, he moved later in life to Los Angeles, California, which is where he wrote down The Aquarian Gospel. The year was 1908, and he died just three years later. When he died, a new Christian movement was in the offing, right there in Los Angeles, one aimed explicitly against the very kinds of Liberal Protestantism so well embodied in The Aquarian Gospel. That new-old style…

Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For Real-World Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…the tutelage and oppression of demonic forces.” At the end of the dream, “number 45” (he never refers to Trump by name) comes to the command center and gives a “medal of freedom” to Sheets—“knowing of what had been done, that what had been accomplished was from the efforts of both.” This is interesting in light of the actual role of the Sheets brothers in facilitating the events of January 6th. Hood offers a slick mix of historical revisionism an…