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Dominion Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Julie Ingersoll

…itten extensively about Reconstructionists and Sarah has written about the New Apostolic Reformation here and here. Moreover Sarah and Anthea Butler have just posted a terrific overview of the NAR, Pentecostalism, and dominionism in which they critique both the denialists who say that dominionism doesn’t exist, and alarmists who fail to properly contextualize dominionists’ activities. Christian Reconstructionism is the older of the two movements (…

But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap

By Chrissy Stroop

…aker’s reporting indicates, because the parents “accepted their teenager’s new gender identity,” even if “not without trepidation.” His mother, after all, was just concerned that the school might be putting her child “on a path the school wasn’t qualified to oversee.” And if parents like her join up with the Christian Right to protect their “parental rights” and start voting for Republicans—as some of the mostly “liberal” parents interviewed for B…

New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…December I looked back over two decades of writing Beliefs columns in the New York Times. One of my abiding themes, I suggested, had been that “the great world religions are complex and multilayered; they are rich in inner tensions and ambiguities that allow beliefs and practices to evolve over time as the faith is tested by new circumstances and insights. The great religions cannot be equated with the diminished and frozen fundamentalisms that t…

A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

By Caroline Matas

…f them chose to turn their attention to domestic Christianization as their new mission front. During a time of heated schisms among fundamentalist and evangelical groups and amidst the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan rallying against immigrants, people of color, Catholics, and Jews, mainline Protestant women’s church councils increasingly emphasized interdenominational, interreligious, and interracial cooperation. Mainline Protestant women’s organi…

Updated: New Riverside Pastor Steps Down; Where Does That Leave Progressive Christianity?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…rgy, and commissions as we enter a period of reflection, transition, and renewal. Blessings, Jean L. Schmidt Chair, Church Council _____ Dear Riversiders: After considerable prayer and reflection, I believe that resigning my position as Senior Minister of the Riverside Church is the right thing to do for the congregation, my family, and me at this time. My hope is that the congregation will be able to address its internal tensions so that the chur…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…other reason that Anderson deserves recognition as an honorary scholar of new religious movements is that his curiosity about new religions has brought him into conflict with a culture that still approaches the religious other through an un-nuanced “us vs. them” mentality. Most religion scholars who deal heavily with new religious movements have been branded as “cult apologists” at some point in their careers. At stake in this accusation is an as…

The Nitty-Gritty of the Senate Abortion Amendments (King Herod Aside)

By Sarah Posner

…bortion. That’s not applying Hyde, that’s extending Hyde into a completely new area. But the bishops insist they’re merely maintaining “abortion neutrality.” But it’s not just the bishops that are pressuring Nelson. As I reported this morning, a panoply of religious right groups are ramping up pressure on Senators, portraying a vote for health care without the Nelson amendment as a dire threat to Christianity and the republic. The National Right t…

Muslim Stowaways
on the European
Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…problem.” In “Europe’s Other Crisis,” his most recent contribution to The New Republic, Caldwell presents what may seem at first like typical Eurabian alarmism: Islam and the West are incompatible. Europe with Muslims will cease being Europe. But there is more to it. As Caldwell puts it: “Europe is not rich enough… to withdraw from the world, but for the first time in half a millennium it is not strong enough to engage with the world either.” May…

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…han other nations. Note that “different” is the word that our politicians, Republican and Democrat, use to mean distinctly better than other peoples. And what an amazing level of self-deception that is, say the world’s other peoples, shaking their heads over white America’s delusional self-love. I believe that what most dismays international observers of today’s America—and I refer to people who want to admire our country more than they now do—is…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…phraim was tonsured as a monk in 1947 on Mount Athos, an isolated monastic republic in the Aegean which forbids not only women, but even cows, from landing on its shores. He left Athos in 1979 when he went to Canada for medical treatment. From there, he came to the United States, which is (as with so many stories) where it gets weird. Traveling through the Greek-American communities of the early 1980s, Ephraim found what through other eyes might h…