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The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…remove a massive granite monument of the Ten Commandments in front of the Alabama State Judiciary building, a clear violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment and any number of Supreme Court cases. He was removed again last year for refusing to uphold federal law on same sex marriage, on the grounds that it was in violation of God’s law as found in the Old Testament. Like Winthrop, Moore believes that the Old Testament should or…

Religious Right Breaks the Bank to Fight Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…urch buildings and equipment during the campaign. Most of the rest went to airline tickets, hotels and meals for church officials. Focus on the Family, the evangelical Christian media empire based in Colorado, reported giving $657,000 in cash and services to promote Proposition 8. All this money was thrown around by the religious right (forcing the other side to waste money fighting them) that could have been used to improve the lives of the 7.6 m…

Saint Michael… Spied in a Stump, Haunting Larry King

By Anthea Butler

…ngs over and over again, dancing in the streets, and even buying expensive airline tickets to Los Angeles, hoping for a long shot lottery ticket that would let them into the inner sanctum of the Staples Center for the memorial service. I’d say that already makes for thousands of devotees—even the Rev. Sharpton, whose dance moves [image left, more here] at the Apollo in honor of St. Michael were more like a Bacchanal than a holy Ghost dance. All of…

Gay and Lesbian Candidates Win Primary Victories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…progress. However, that’s not the end of the story. In mostly conservative Montana, young gay rights activist Bryce Bennett has made it to the November ballot for a state legislative seat and may very likely win his very democratic district. In Maine, we find one race with some religious overtones. Jill Barkley defeated her challenger Mohammed Dini, a Somalian refugee and Muslim, with 63% of the vote. Both candidates are also relatively young. Bar…

Buddha-Mind, American Style

By Louis A. Ruprecht

Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Montana, is the oldest living man in the US. He just turned 112. (Women live longer, as we all know; Gertrude Baines, an African American woman, is 114.) One hundred and twelve years on this earth: it is a staggering, an almost biblical, figure. Walter Breuning was born in 1896. This was the year of the first modern Olympics, held in Athens, Greece; he has lived to see them held in Beijing, China. Mr. Breuning was…

Call Me Pesach

By Peter Manseau

…the challenges of keeping ancient traditions alive. “If You Live in Butte, Montana…” Despite the well-meaning efforts of Christians in search of their Jewish roots, the fact that Jesus was a Jew, and that the Last Supper was a Seder, has little to do with what American Catholics and American Jews truly have in common, which is far more than our fraught religious histories would suggest. Is it possible that the saga of immigration and assimilation…

The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…t the EPA and called on Alabamians to pray. “I hope all of the citizens of Alabama will be in prayer that the right thing will be done,” Cavanaugh said. Chip Beeker, a candidate for the commission who is currently running unopposed, added that Alabama’s coal is from God and that the federal government ought not interfere. “Who has the right to take what God’s given a state?” he asked. Beeker is an elder and Sunday school teacher at the First Presb…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ir multi-national, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character. That said, the numbers of nations and people that we mention are sourced solely on the claims of the groups themselves. We have no way to independently verify these numbers, so they should be used advisedly. Simply put, the global vision of the NAR is based on their understanding of the Great Commission text of Matthew 28:18-20, with an emphasis on “discipling nations” (28:19). Internatio…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…(“Mr. Putin, please,” he pleads at one point, calling down a bomb to wipe Alabama clean). McLemore obsesses over statistics proving, so he says, that his town has the highest rate of child sexual abuse in the state. But this may be a layered concern, just as McLemore’s contempt for outward signs of a kind of class-based déclassé—like tattoos, or piercings—is significantly more complex than the flat dismissal it first seems. Which is where religio…

The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art

By Jonathan Fast

…r. Later that night he killed himself with a bullet to the head. He had an airline ticket for Iowa, where he planned to visit a friend, and $17,000 in cash strapped to his body. So a crime that at first seems a rara avis reveals itself as the common gray sparrow of a disgruntled husband venting his rage on his wife and in-laws. What distinguishes it as “newsworthy,” beyond the scope of the tragedy and horror of the killings of innocent children an…