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Santorum Spokesperson Confuses “Radical Environmentalism” with “Radical Islamic” Policies with “Theological Secularism”

By Sarah Posner

…t be fooled by Santorum’s defense that he believes Obama when the president says he’s a Christian. Listen to the world salad Santorum and Stewart dropped onto the national airwaves. Anyone steeped in the “Christian worldview” (including Stewart’s old boss Bachmann) would fully understand that code as “Obama doesn’t govern from a ‘Christian worldview.’ And you know what that means: he must be a secularist, or an Islamist, or some other enemy of Chr…

Gingrich on “Teh Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…which means a person may be born with a “propensity” to be gay, but, hey, that doesn’t mean they have to be that way. They have a choice, after all. People choose many things in life. You know, there is a bias in favor of non-celibacy. It’s part of how the species re-creates. And yet there is a substantial amount of people who choose celibacy as a religious vocation or for other reasons. Gingrich is blowing all the right notes on the religious rig…

Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?

By J. Michelle Molina

…, observers never failed to mention that he is the first Jesuit pope. But what does that really tell us and, more importantly, as his decisions begin to come down the pipeline (as here, for example, regarding the LCWR), what is most important to know about his Jesuit worldview? Soon after Bergoglio’s appearance as the new pope, James Martin, S.J., made an intriguing comment: “Since his election Wednesday, I have heard at least a dozen Jesuits say,…

Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…, on April 24, the House voted in strong support of HR 1054, a resolution that affirmed that “ ‘person’ means a human being at all stages of human development of life, including the state of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning, or condition of dependency[.]” As HR1054 was discussed on the floor, its sponsor, Rep. Vaughan, wept openly as he exhorted his fellow legislators to support the non-binding resolutio…

One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Religion and the Obama Campaign

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s with eloquence and power. The second is that “being like us” is indeed a code for race, that being like us involves being white and Protestant and thus if one is not white, but “merely” mixed, then one somehow can’t really be Christian. It is more than a little sad that mainline Christians are not speaking more forcefully and with outrage against either of these scarcely-veiled, noxious beliefs. And it is the apparent net of beliefs that may wel…

Knighting Viktor Orbán for ‘Defending Christianity,’ Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Demonstrates That ‘Culture War’ is the Only Theology That Matters to the Global Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…stendom—but the recognition of a Hungarian Protestant like Orbán suggests that even that old division is slipping away. Increasingly it’s clear that the real, and perhaps singular, fault line running through the world is between those committed to a liberal, pluralist future and those who seek an illiberal world in which Enlightenment ideas of personal liberty and autonomy are soundly defeated. In many historically and cultural Christian countries…

‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood

By Cathleen Falsani

…uspended above him. He looks up, into the eyes of Jesus, and says, “Love. That’s what you’re selling? Well, I don’t buy it.” And then he spits at Jesus’ face. The act was shocking and yes, sacrilegious. I don’t believe we ever would have seen such a display on network television where advertisers rule and protests or boycotts surely would ensue. But it was authentic to Frank’s character, an unabashed, unapologetic villain. He’s a monster, but he’s…

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

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…d on the World Prayer Network is ever to be reported in the media. We ask that all persons respect that. Well Versed is an association of churches, essentially micro congregations. The World Prayer Network is an online church service. – From the World Prayer Network’s video prayer call ‘About’ page It’s fair to say that well established global trends in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements reveal one of the most significant developments in th…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…. They are locked up, they have nothing better to do, and they share only that one joke-book. But what explains the constant number-calling around homosexuality in so many American churches? Why do we rehearse arguments most anyone active in church has already heard dozens of time? Why do we behave like prisoners? I don’t think that long-term veterans of church debates have much hope that undecided people will be persuaded by the repetition. Most…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…ain to leave the US. To this day, uncertainty shrouds the Oregon venture: What did Rajneesh know and what did his inner circle conspire secretly in his name? Rajneesh returned to the Pune center in 1987 and later renamed himself “Osho,” an honorific title for a Buddhist priest. He enlarged the Pune property and called it Osho, too. The eponymous site, he decided, would be a multiversity and meditation resort, refocused on teaching and developing n…