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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…individuals to exercise the roles of apostles and prophets in the Church today, along with all the spiritual gifts manifest during the early apostolic age, including healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues. One of the tricks in reporting this is that people may mean different things by the terms apostle and apostolic. The Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination, for example, issued a report in 2001 which states that most Christi…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…think it’s a matter of the heart, not of the mechanical things we do each day. What’s next? I’m aiming to release a new album in 2012. The music is there for it, and I’m playing a lot of it when I tour. Right now, I’m doing a lot of concerts and shows, as well as contributing to these dialogues we’re having. My phone’s ringing off the hook, and I’m participating as much as I can in discussions with LGBT lay people and clergy. There are so man…

Man Behind Willie Horton Ad Is Out to Save America from the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…e Mormons (who make up 2% of the California population) may have given 50 – 70% of the money and walked the precincts in some California communities, it was millions upon millions of homophobic non-Mormon Californians of all faiths and colors who pulled the levers to end marriage equality in the Golden State. If Karger thinks he can personally and individually defeat homophobia by running for president to antagonize Mormons, he is both foolish and…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…cross the street from our church. In no time at all, every one of their Sunday School rooms was filled, floor to ceiling. One room contained nothing but diapers. It was a marvelous display of generosity, but it took them months to distribute it all. In the meantime, they had to relocate their Sunday School classes. A week or so after the storm, the high-school gym across the street from our house became the locus of clothing distribution. Voluntee…

The Speech Mitt Romney Never Gave

By Joanna Brooks

…ights, torture, money, and power. At least not one robust enough to inform day-to-day conversation or decision-making, or politics. Which is startling given that the Book of Mormon—a text virtually no one dared to quote in public during this so-called “Mormon moment”—is extremely eloquent on war and peace, and the dangers that proceed from wealth and pride. American Mormons tend to hold our history of persecution as a kind of personal treasure, as…

Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

By Sam Kestenbaum

…uch a rush we couldn’t even let the bread finish rising. The eight-day holiday is about remembering this historical moment—Exodus, our liberation from slavery in Egypt—and also about seeing the world as a stranger, through someone else’s eyes. Khalid and I take a break from the cramped newsroom where we work for lunch. I’m an editor at an English newspaper in Sana’a and he’s a translator. Khalid is a wiry, gentle man who owns one suit that he wear…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…y a man of faith, but Joe Biden is much worse. That matches survey results: 70% said Biden is “Not too” or “Not at all” religious. It’s also possible White evangelicals simply see Trump as, to put it delicately, an imperfect representative of their cause. Which seems closer to the truth. More than two-thirds say Trump stands up for people with their beliefs—far more than any other religious demographic. Roughly the same proportion have favorable o…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…ernathy after King’s assassination. Freedom from Christian nationalism The day’s first panel featured two of the leading authors in the study of the religious and political Right. It’s unusual, perhaps historic, that campaign like this one has so publicly centered an understanding of the Christian Right as part of its efforts. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of the Poor People’s Campaign and author of Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for th…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…ding medical, financial, and emotional support during pregnancy along with day care and job training post-partum,” that wouldn’t alter their fundamental opposition to legal abortion. (That, like viewing homosexuality as a sin, is portrayed as the only “biblical” position.) What’s more, if the “new” evangelicals are for small government, would they only support such expensive programs if they were aimed at enticing women to carry pregnancies to ter…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…th Africa, and the oldest continuously operating university in the world today, al-Azhar (sorry, Sen. Graham), is in Cairo, Egypt. This history may be the reason on graduation day you look like an enemy combatant. Much of the modern university, including the stages by which one attains to a doctorate, descend from Islamic antecedents and maintain Islamic influences. “The Star Wars Prequels” by Garrett Schwalber 11. The Star Wars Prequels Tattooine…