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Young Male Congregants Sue Televangelist Eddie Long, Alleging Sexual Coercion

By Sarah Posner

…ly pursuing them, put them on the church payroll, and used church funds to buy them gifts and take them on lavish trips. Long used his position of spiritual authority to coerce the young men into sexual relationships with him, they charge, relationships that Long insisted were sanctioned by God. The notion of “spiritual” fathers and sons, and of obedience to one in spiritual authority, is a common theme in Long’s career trajectory. The plaintiffs…

When Bad Weeks Happen to Good People

By Kate Blanchard

…he US Senate’s vote not to make it even a tiny bit harder for Americans to buy guns. So much high-profile violence in rapid succession prompted The Onion to cry, “Jesus, this week” (while Jezebel went even further). Such events bring to mind age-old questions of “theological anthropology,” which religions have sought to answer since time immemorial: Is there such a thing as universal human nature, and if so, is it ineluctably violent? Is all this…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…is case, I was also aware that many members of the order would be eager to buy the book—despite how sizeable, widespread, long-lived, influential, and intriguing this order is, no academic book has ever been published about them in English (and only one has ever been published at all—in French). Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I actually don’t like pissing people off. I know some scholars rise to fame that way…

“Do Not Be A Stupid Idiot!”: Religion and Resentment

By Daniel Schultz

…e errors in column after column—which is exactly why most people who don’t buy into the WND perspective simply mock and move on. But something about this piece by Linda Harvey caught my attention.. Lord knows it gives plenty of fuel to the “what the hell are they on about” fire. The piece—”Sodom, We Have a Problem”—is all over the place, from the decline of mainline Protestantism to same-sex marriage to acceptance of the transgender community to s…

RDGenerations: Youth and Liberal Religion

By Lucia Hulsether

Mark: School is back in session and it’s been a whole summer since we did our first thread for Religion Dispatches. What have you been up to? Lucia: My summer was busy! Mostly I worked as a research assistant to a group of sociologists who are working on a project called “Latin American Immigrants in the New South” [Ed. note: see also our latest Dispatches from the Borderlands]. But in the gaps around this job, I did three week-long stints with e…

Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…o prosecute witches with fraud. He remarked, “If money from witchcraft can buy the kind of houses they have, it means witches must owe the State huge amounts of money. All we want to do is recover money and stop the fraud.” Romania became an EU member in 2007. When public health concerns became an area of “shared competence” with the EU, it became possible for many witches to register as “alternative health care providers.” This greatly vexed Roma…

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

By Peter Laarman

…59 freshman class that “the Lord forbids our using our education merely to buy our way into middle-class security.” Coffin and other antiwar religious activists of the time never could persuade a majority of upper-middle class students to take to the streets against the Vietnam madness, though they made a valiant effort—and they understood the ugly race and class dimension of American imperialism. Thinking about Coffin’s legacy, I had to ask mysel…

Secure Borders? Not a Chance, Senator

By Ira Chernus

…s, electrified fences, and armed guards that a strapped federal budget can buy won’t stop the flow of illegal immigration. With nearly 6,000 miles of land border plus innumerable seaports and airports awaiting them, people who are hungry or ambitious enough will always find a way to get into the country. Besides, in our university classrooms we’ve been teaching for years that borders are not walls or barricades. They are not lines drawn on the gro…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…g children. “Father, our children today are being deceived by the West. To buy them, to give them school fees so that they can be homosexuals. We say no to that,” Oyet said with a rolling voice as a live band played smooth jazz in the background. When Engle himself finally took the microphone at about 5 p.m., he dug almost immediately into the controversy, saying he hadn’t known about the bill and nearly canceled his trip over questions raised by…

Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

By Anthea Butler

…gelists use sexuality in titles of books and preaching to get followers to buy their extended respectability sermons, packaged as sensual tomes like The Lady The Lover and her Lord, Foreplay: Sexual Healing for Spiritual Wholeness, or No More Sheets. Then emotional meetings are arranged so that everyone can “confess” and feel clean while the ‘leader” can be shown to be above reproach. The master at this is Donnie McClurkin, whose tearful testimoni…