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Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…ere believers to the end, as I said. My father was a very learned man, self-taught, very smart. My mother was a simpler soul, didn’t graduate high school, and was quite a contrast, their two minds. Sometimes I think I’m a blend of the two of them: a little of my dad’s smarts and wisdom and some of my mother’s simplicity too. They were fervent believers. They weren’t great practitioners of Judaism or anything along those lines, but they were people…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ed by evangelists Mike Bickle and Lou Engle, who is also the leader of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim The Call revival rallies across the country. In 2002, the Kansas City IHOP was having a “forerunner conference,” Dalton said, “so I went halfway across the United States to find out what God was speaking to me. And it clarified a lot of things.” She came back to Pickens County and founded the Forerunner House of Prayer. Mike Bickle, who play…

Murdering Sleep: Madoff and MacBeth

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cheme now, perhaps had just learned of it? Was that what prompted this over-the-top display of defensive rage? Just seven months later, on December 10, 2008, the Madoffs hosted their annual Christmas party at the Rosa Mexicano restaurant on East 18th Street. Bernard Madoff had informed his sons and his wife of the impending trouble earlier that day, and planned to turn himself in the following morning,. The sons opted out of the party. But Ruth Ma…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…ris, Craig Hicks, Jared Lee Loughner, and Omar Mateen (also an accused wife-abuser). These men seem more bitter than ideological. Attributing a political intelligence to their actions seems far-fetched. Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s crimes can’t be termed “Islamist” terror, at least not at this point. And yet in the world we live in now, any act of violence on the part of anyone who can be even remotely connected to Islam—even if only by ancestry—is assimil…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…ret Assyrian, finds unholy geometry in his hairstyle, and gives him the not-so-subtle Tribulation title “Beastrump.” While barbed, such politics are ultimately non-partisan. Lythgoe was similarly critical of Clinton. It is earthly power itself that’s seen as corrupt; Trump just offers a spectacularly rich example to pair with scriptural critiques. So is this Christian thought? Is this religion? Decades ago, at the peak of the move to stigmatize co…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…hese living caricatures of black and Christian America, PBS specials, black-and-white footage of the Civil Rights era, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, have informed what many Americans know about black Christians, especially the Black Church. Unfortunately, these narrow and misleading representations of Christianity in black America, including the iconic legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., have contributed to a view that is dec…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…allow his MPs to vote with their consciences on the issue.” Story image is of Kabaka Mwanga II, ruler of Buganda from 1884 to 1899…

Same-Sex Marriage: The Cure for Unemployment (Worries)

By Joanna Brooks

…ion is this: what special moral stake does Imperial County have in the anti-same sex marriage fight? The county (population: 166,000) is about 75% Latino. About 25% of residents live below the poverty line. Its official unemployment rate of 30.4% is the highest in the nation. When same-sex marriage was legal in California, about 50 Imperial County couples lined up to make their vows at the county courthouse in El Centro. In November 2008, about 67…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…framework. But give the article its due. Immediately after glorifying anti-Amalekite (i.e. anti-Hamas) violence, it says: Hamas isn’t Amalek. Hamas isn’t literally under Yahweh’s ban and curse. And Hamas certainly isn’t the same as the Palestinian people. Thousands of Palestinians are Christians, and many Muslim Palestinians oppose Hamas and its violence. To compare Hamas to Amalek isn’t to justify or even suggest genocide. Isn’t it wonderful tha…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecuted For Homosexuality, But Not ISIS Commander ISIS reportedly executed a 15-year-old Syrian boy charged with homosexuality by throwing him off the roof of a building. The Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration reiterated its call for the U.S. to reserve some of the 10,000 slots for Syrian refugees for LGBT people, a call that the White House has rejected. The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman notes that ISIS murdered the teen while sparing the li…