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We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…ss at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, Stott—with characteristic humility—demolished the decades-old shibboleth that evangelicals should concern themselves only with evangelism and not with social amelioration. “Here then are two instructions, ‘love your neighbor’ and ‘go and make disciples,’” Stott said, referring to the words of Jesus: “What is the relation between the two? Some of us behave as if…

Plant Porn and Physics Prayers

By Meera Subramanian

…God along, Keats used a live feed from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, where scientists are smashing subatomic particles together in the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson and other things that might shed light on the origins of the universe. Votive candles and smoldering incense set on a deep red fabric made for an altar in front of the monitor, which showed cross-sections of the collider lit up with a spirograph of pastel whenever…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…r beers and five wines.” Well done, sir. A group of US Senators are asking Switzerland to reconsider an immigration policy that puts a de facto ban on Mormon missionaries to the country. Citizens in Sweden say they won’t let the suicide bombing in Stockholm shake their belief in tolerance. In the wake of last month’s Oregon bombing case, Attorney General Eric Holder defended the use of sting operations where undercover agents are sent into US mosq…

Billy Graham Regrets Political Involvement, Again

By Randall Balmer

…Graham convened a gathering of American Protestant ministers in Montreaux, Switzerland, to discuss how to derail Kennedy’s campaign. The follow-up to the Montreaux meeting was a closed-door gathering of 150 Protestant clergy at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on November 7—the purpose of which, once again, was to sound the alarm about the dangers of a Roman Catholic in the White House. After Nixon finally won the presidency in 1968, Graham condu…

The Week in Religion: Haggard Would Identify
as Bisexual, Trademarking
the Virgin, Woman Kills
‘Devil Dog’

By Michael J. Altman

…reform law, the U.S. Catholic bishops will not join in the repeal effort. Switzerland’s highest court refused to add “Madonna” to its trademark registry because, it argued, commercial use of the reference to the Virgin Mary would be immoral. An elderly couple with a faulty GPS ended up driving through the wall of a 19th century German church. “The old man was more confused than the woman. He kept saying, It’s the machine – it told me to turn this…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…the indefatigable hostess of Schaeffer’s American expatriate community in Switzerland, L’Abri (meaning “Shelter”), a training ground and experiment in radical Christian living. She is also an author whose most durable contribution to the culture wars are two of her seemingly most apolitical books: L’Abri, a memoir of her role in her husband’s ministry, and a book that became, perhaps unintentionally, a landmark text for proponents of “biblical wo…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Turns out, every case of self-reported religious affiliation is trending downward: 40% self-identify as religiously non-affiliated in the Netherlands, as do 60% in the Czech Republic. The mathematicians seem far more surprised by these numbers than most religionists would be. The first and most obvious reason involves an important distinction that when you shif…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…be stunned before slaughter, following in the footsteps of New Zealand and Switzerland, effectively eliminating the procedures that make meat kosher for Jews or halal for Muslims. As for the sacrificial taking of human life, every Sunday, millions of mainstream Americans partake in a symbolic ingestion of blood and body that is so common in the Christian world that one forgets to use the word “cannibalism.” For the Catholics if not the Protestants…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…en on TV” was honored with a reading at the Rose D’Or Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was invited on the two-week Jewish Federation’s Master class in Tel Aviv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena rec…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…probably more Christians in a neighborhood of Lagos or Nairobi than all of Switzerland. It is in this context that the attention of the Anglican Communion has again turned to Canterbury. The bishop’s chair there will soon be vacant, even as Rowan Williams takes full advantage of the months preceding his December retirement. And while speculation as to his successor runs hot, most observers place their bets on current occupants of English sees. Tha…