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The Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform

By Jonathan L. Walton

…President Obama’s healthcare proposal live in states that have the highest numbers without insurance coverage. Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia where at minimum an excess of 20% of residents are uninsured. So it seems that he parts of the country that are most in need of health care reform are most likely to have citizens who decry “socialism” and believe in government initiated “death panels.” Now it would be easy to…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…and Newman are diligently working alongside other conservative efforts, in Louisiana and elsewhere, to radically change the landscape of American education and to ultimately transform society into the anti-democratic image of the New Apostolic Reformation. And America’s education system is just one of the core institutions under attack by the NAR, a global neo-charismatic and Pentecostal movement of leadership networks that are, according to Frede…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…med “the God pod.” Opponents of a proposed Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee argued that Islam is not a religion in court this week. They are suing the country for breaking open-meeting laws when they approved the building proposal. And in North Carolina, congressional candidate Renee Ellmers released possibly the most anti-Muslim political ad of the year. The ad calls the Park51 project a “victory mosque” and compares it to mosques in Jer…

Is Marriage Equality the New “Scopes” Moment? Sort of…

By Chrissy Stroop

…s decision was handed down upholding a ban on the teaching of evolution in Tennessee’s public schools (though Scopes’ fine and conviction were later reversed on a technicality). But it was the Evangelical community that lost in the court of public opinion. The refusal to adapt to the findings of modern science made the adherents of “Old Time Religion” look ridiculous, ushering in a couple of decades of tactical retreat and reduced influence. Ameri…

End Times on the Gulf Coast

By Lauri Lebo

…or June is half that. It’s only the latest in a series of flash floods. In Tennessee, 18 people died. In Arkansas, 20 were killed. The waitresses looked teary-eyed at the customers, as if they were simply unable to bear any more bad news. We stared back at the women with the same expression. What the hell has been unleashed? Of course, you don’t have to be washed in the blood of salvation to know that something truly bad is going on. The great tra…

Is Feminism to Blame for the Rise of Saint Sarah?

By Joanna Brooks

…vout Southern Baptist mother who helped found the first NOW chapter in her Tennessee town, I well know that much of feminism is not only open to religion but has been deeply inspired by it. My point to Miller had to do with the perceptions many conservative evangelical women have about mainstream feminism — perceptions, incidentally, that I attempted to alter during my years of field research. They perceive such hostility, and so it becomes a real…

The Message of the RNC: Who Is Thy Enemy?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…’Reilly must commit murder, as was the case at a Unitarian congregation in Tennessee, or perpetrate hate crimes against gays and lesbians before we acknowledge the venom of mass mediated right-wing rancor? As Americans face the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and national confidence at an all-time low, it seems to me that the Republican establishment could use a dose of reality. Inflated threats of Islamic “goons and goblins” or…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…M RAGE at the newsstand, or listen to protesters cheering the burning of a Tennessee mosque earlier this month, and it’s easy to imagine that Islam and the West are eternal enemies, fated to default again and again to the same unending clash. Accordingly, Islam’s harshest American critics—such as Geller and Gingrich, or Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes—hold themselves out as the last few champions of Enlightenment values in the face of a Dark-Ages…

Law and Order: R.I.P.

By Susan Henking

…Fred Thompson, a post-2002 series mainstay who was previously Senator from Tennessee [1994 through 2003] ran for national office and many confused the gravitas of his character with his own personhood. Of course this same blurring of screen and (American) politics occurred as actors Reagan and Schwarzenegger ran for elected office.) The series reminded us, too, that sometimes, what is awful is better than the existing options – and sometimes worse…

Week in Religion: More Praying in Texas, First Hindu Chaplain, Modest Muslim Weightlifter

By Michael J. Altman

…ile, they’re less interested in prayer and more interested in God’s law in Tennessee. The state’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that urges all counties in the state to post the Ten Commandments in their courthouses. A Muslim female weightlifter is waiting to hear from sport officials if she can compete in modest clothing that will cover her whole body. Kulsoom Abdullah can dead lift 245 pounds. The governing body of international socc…