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A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

…oughts I agonized in vain to squelch. Which is why I decided, at the age of 16, that I no longer believed unreservedly in much of what had seemed self-evident just years earlier—and took a nearly decade-long vacation from religion. As I write this now, and contemplate my research these past few months and years, I am heartened by how easily I can appreciate the beauty—at least literarily—of a world with unanswerable questions and godly mysteries….

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Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

…use stories of all time. Or one of Robert McCammon’s horror novels from the 1980s, maybe The Wolf’s Hour or Mystery Walk. I’m currently reading my way through his oeuvre. McCammon’s horror writing is brilliant—evocative and touching and sometimes deeply disturbing, sometimes utterly awe-inspiring. I would’ve loved to have included an interpretive chapter on one of his novels. Maybe in another book. Image from promotional materials for The Cabin in…

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Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

…gence apps” including As One America, which contains the name, address and phone number of Christian neighbors “who are not showing up to vote or who are not registered.” He then showed a map with big red arrows pointing to precincts “within striking distance” from Vida Church to the precincts that are “where the devil’s got a stronghold that God wants to break up.” The app was developed by Superfeed Technologies, which has also designed apps for…

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‘Calling’ Rick Warren to Task on Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

…nightly MSNBC show late last month, Lisa Darden knew she needed to make a phone call. Darden, a filmmaker and talent agent, had been interviewing conservative evangelical Christian leaders and getting a behind-the-scenes look at the religious right for the past several years for her soon to be released movie, For Such a Time as This. The documentary seeks to bridge the gap between anti-gay Christians and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgende…

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From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

…rs split into factions that feuded over control. — New York Times, July 26, 1998 1. What inspired you to write The Seer of Bayside? Believe it or not, my interest in Veronica Lueken developed naturally from my first book on vampires. I learned about Lueken because one of her messages from heaven talked about vampires and warned that there really are possessed people who walk among us and drink human blood. It’s sometimes said that the job of a rel…

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“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

…or exhorted on homosexuals to repent or be punished by God before the microphone was snatched away one of Kato’s supporters. It might have seemed that the last person the activist’s friends would turn to for support at the moment would be another religious leader. Especially given that the church in Uganda was at the head of the drive for the draconian anti-homosexuality bill still pending in Parliament. But 79-year-old Bishop Christopher Senyonjo…

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Intensive Care: Preachers’ Daughters Episode Five Recap

…ll use the term “mix tape”?) While she’s out and completely unreachable by phone, her dad, Ken, goes into the hospital with breathing difficulties and is admitted to intensive care. Taylor finally gets the message, is stricken with remorse and concern, prays for her dad’s healing, and resolves to be more responsible. My Dinner with Frankie: Mark and Cheryl Perry invited their teenage daughter Olivia’s friend Frankie over for dinner. Since Olivia h…

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Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

…Nations, a case for the U.S or Israel attacking Iran, and a pitch for the phone ministry 1-888-RAPTURE. Apparently the UFO issue got onto Lindsey’s radar screen because of reports that United Nations is paying attention to it, as discussed here. Lindsey offers a mass of evidence (quite disturbing if true) claiming sightings by military personnel who witnessed UFOs disarming nuclear weapons. In Lindsey’s interpretation, such disarmament fits a sim…

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Satanic FOIA Reveals Deep Confusion About 1st Amendment

…etuated a narrative that Christianity in America is under attack. September 17 is Constitution Day, the perfect opportunity to recognize that the First Amendment has two clauses about religion; we’re not only a nation that values religious freedom, we are also a nation that recognizes the government shouldn’t tell us what to believe. Go to top *Greaves expressed his suspicion that some files had been omitted from the FOIA request. Documents sent f…

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“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

…and Kurdistan. The pharmacist showed me a video he had made with his cell phone, which did indeed look like a cattle surge of vehicles illumined by a few eerie lights. Now the news from his town is “very bad”—there is no water or electricity or food in stores. Christians are forced to make payments to be allowed to survive and have to pretend to be Muslims and go to the mosque, and ISIS militants roam around the streets and do whatever they want….

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