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Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

By Gordon Haber

…Stone article, and The Church of Scientology by Hugh Urban, a professor at Ohio State University who studies religious secrecy. It’s not surprising that each book has a different approach, given their provenances. In a wide-ranging and detailed history of the church, Reitman relies on journalistic scrupulousness—by her account, she did close to a hundred interviews and read “thousands of pages of Scientology doctrine,” for which she deserves our…

Update on Case of Cross Burnt Into Student’s Arm

By Lauri Lebo

…o determine. Brayton sums up the court issues regarding the battery claim: Ohio law requires an intent to commit harm in order to be battery. The family claims that since Freshwater should have known that the Tesla coil would cause harm, that proves his intent. Freshwater says that since he’d been doing this to students for 21 years and had never had a complaint in the past, he had no intent and truly did not believe it would cause any real harm. …

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…nt of the delegates were members of minority groups, and male delegates outnumbered women delegates about two to one. To judge by these numbers, the Republicans still play to an America conceived as predominantly white. Racial prejudice against Obama appears in several ways. One is the denial by racists of their prejudice but their attribution of racism to others—a ploy known as projection. (Pollsters are having a difficult time estimating the ext…

From the cover of the Kindle edition of C. Peter Wagner's book.

It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…ng several writing at RD. We needn’t rehash all that except to note that a number of the Summit’s participants suggested that the name of their movement poses a public relations problem. While the term New Apostolic Reformation* has stood the test of time for more than a quarter of a century, some don’t like it, mostly because others in the movement have been harshly criticized. Several speakers argued that NAR should not be used because, even amo…

Why Does Trump’s Authoritarian Christian Base Ignore Never-Trump Evangelical Leaders?

By Chrissy Stroop

…dust settles? Despite a handful of visible Republican leaders like former Ohio Governor John Kasich and Senator Mitt Romney recognizing President-elect Biden, and despite the evangelical groups that formed to support Biden before the election, author and expert on the Christian Right Katherine Stewart is right to warn us that Trump’s Christian nationalist supporters are not simply going to quietly accept these election results, and that the polit…

Obama Muffs Question On Faith-Based Hiring Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…Obama promised on the campaign trail in a July 2008 speech in Zanesville, Ohio, to end religious discrimination by recipients of federal faith-based money. After that speech, the campaign got pushback from evangelical leaders, who insisted that they wouldn’t even want federal money if they couldn’t engage in what they call “co-religionist hiring,” that is, the ability to only hire applicants of the same faith, or to refuse employment to someone,…

Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ld mean that, in Mississippi (or the several other states like Florida and Ohio that are drafting similar measures) it will be safer to be a fertilized-egg-person (FEP) than a woman. What a welter of problems arise when you oust logic. Right out of the gate, away with any contraceptives that prevent implantation of the FEP. Also unthinkable under such a law is medical experimentation on embryos. Hey, those are people you’re experimenting on! Even…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…dance included Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio, Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Hodel, former head of the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, and Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Also present were Rick Scarborough, founder and president of Vision America, and David Barton, president of WallBuilders; both men have fashioned entire careers out of their denials that the…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…his CORE colleagues—James Earle Chaney and Andrew Goodman—were actually in Ohio at the time, but heard of the Mt. Zion burning and came back to Mississippi to investigate. They were pulled over, arrested, released, tailed, and finally ambushed and murdered by klansmen. You can read the whole terrible history here. In 1988, Molpus was approached about speaking at an event at the now-rebuilt church, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the murders…

The Truth about Catholics and Condoms

By Jon O?Brien

…eir objection was similar to that of Leonard Paul Blair, bishop of Toledo, Ohio, who argued that the Pope was merely speaking about a “hypothetical situation” in his choice to focus on a male prostitute using a condom. Sadly for Bishop Blair, the Vatican spokesperson Father Federico Lombardi confirmed that the Pope intended his words to apply whether “you’re a woman, a man, or a transsexual.” Equally important, however, is the fact that the Pope c…