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Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…In your writing, you show a lot of respect for youth. As the youngest of thirteen children, how is your personal history reflected in your attitude toward the power and authority youth can have in cultural debates? I don’t think it’s anything from my personal history that explains why I have respect for young people. I didn’t identify as being part of a youth culture, and I think I listened to whatever music my older siblings liked. This might be…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…well has written a very bad book. His argument is internally inconsistent, his history is distressingly selective, and his terminology is uncritically general. Unsurprisingly, the book is Islamophobic. More unexpectedly, he has presented something anti-Semitic; the book’s passion for Israel is of a kind with the bigot who is very much in favor of other cultures, so long as he does not have to bump into them anywhere in “his” country. But in full,…

A Tragic Leap of Faith

By Jonathan L. Walton

…t down before a gold cross at the alter. Mr. Smick then removed a gun from his backpack, put the semiautomatic weapon to his temple and released a single, fatal shot into his head. As America’s economic crisis deepens, many are beginning to worry about the impact of the recession on suicide rates. Mental health officials have noted the correlation between psychological well-being and personal finances. According to a statement released by the Amer…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…t ever at thirty-six days, a duration trumping even those undergone by Gandhi, his Indian guru. Like Gandhi, Chavez staged three public fasts, including the “Love Fast,” begun on February 14, 1968, which ended twenty-five days later with an ecumenical mass in which he broke bread with Robert Kennedy. Each of Chavez’s three public rituals was dubbed a “spiritual fast,” during which he took communion from priests and communed prayerfully with Protes…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…oved from the contemporary religious and secular reality. A final word In this third installment of the Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, we’ve highlighted that the NAR vision is always international and not merely a matter of parochial American nationalism. While each country in the NAR vision is to be a Christian nation, by the same standard all nations are to be Christian, because the Kingdom of God is as global as it is local….

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…of accomplishments is almost as long as his list of publications. Ven. Bodhi and his students founded Buddhist Global Relief, which partners with local organizations around the world to increase food security and build local food capacity. He has also been deeply involved with climate activism, most prominently co-authoring the Buddhist Climate Declaration. And he has been active in both Occupy Faith and the Rolling Jubilee campaign, which is rai…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…ion did two things. First, it approved the first emergency contraceptive. While public health officials hailed this as a major breakthrough to help prevent unplanned pregnancy, the Catholic bishops were among the earliest and most aggressive opponents of emergency contraception. In an attempt to suggest that it would not be licit under Catholic doctrine the bishops drew on specious claims from far-right opponents of contraception that it might act…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…f it. Nicolosi leaves a legacy built in human suffering. His work leaves behind nothing of merit—only the wreckage of LGBT lives. Nicolosi was an unaccountable, motivated liar, whose life work was dedicated to destroying LGBT people by undermining our core identities. I wish for him in death the peace he denied so many in life. Let his heinous theories die with him. Kendall marked the occasion of the 70-year-old’s death with a call to release vide…

Before Oprah, There Was the “Hour of Power”: Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller Has Died

By Cathleen Falsani

…d minister of the Reformed Church in America and served a congregation in Chicago before his denomination asked him to move to Southern California and plant a church. With his wife Arvella (who died last year) serving as organist and “$500 in assets, he rented the Orange Drive-In Theatre and conducted Sunday services from the tarpapered roof of its snack bar,” according to Schuller’s biography on the Hour of Power website. “One hundred persons att…

Religion, Marriage, and Maine’s Tortured Soul

By Peter Montgomery

…campaign’s “hyperbole” and talks about asking for forgiveness for ways in which he betrayed himself by going along with Schubert’s strategy. During the campaign, for example, Mutty told NPR that people were right to be concerned that children as young as seven or eight “are being taught about gay sex in some detail” in their schools. Nonetheless, Mutty—who looks miserable in just about every appearance in the documentary—shrugs, “it’s all about wi…