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The Overwhelming Whiteness and Increasing Maleness of U.S. Churches isn’t an Accident — It’s a Selling Point

By Ahmad Greene-Hayes

…Enterprise Institute, a libertarian-right think tank, and the Pew Research Center. According to Graham, Grace Church Waco offers “a dramatic example of an emerging truth,” which is that “[young men] attend services more often and are more likely to identify as religious.” She observed “men greet[ing] visitors at the door, mann[ing] the information table and hand[ing] out bulletins.” In addition, four out of five on-stage musicians, most of the col…

Interview with Karen Armstrong

By Andrea Bistrich

…sidelines to which they have been relegated in modern culture and back to center stage. All fundamentalism is rooted in a profound fear of annihilation: whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, fundamentalists are convinced that secular or liberal society wants to wipe them out. This is not paranoia: Jewish fundamentalism took two major strides forward: one after the Nazi Holocaust, the second after the Yom Kippur War of 1973. In some parts of the Mi…

“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…y of religious communities and utopian groups—a Carmelite monastery, a Zen Center, a sprinkling of Protestant churches, and some stupas set up in the mountains overlooking the San Luis Valley, historically considered a spiritual center by Native peoples who first inhabited the area. But ethereal spirituality, as the piece makes clear, is a challenge when you’re trying to make it through the bitter winters and swarms of spring mosquitoes in that re…

The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…he flyer is for a show his band is putting on at the local Christian youth center, and he’d love it if we came. The Rock for Life pamphlet includes some statistics on abortion and the message on his T-shirt. As he walks away, we think we’ve never seen anything like that before. What, exactly, do the seemingly contradictory images of punk style and pro-life activism mean? The media has struggled to place Rock for Life in the common evangelical/reli…

Et Tu, Bibi?

By Sarah Posner

…nding Beck. Just last year, at his Restoration Weekend, Horowitz’s Freedom Center hosted Christians United for Israel’s John Hagee, long a crusader in this supposedly epic battle, who told the audience: [W]e must snap out of this politically correct fog and admit that we are at war with radical Islam. This is a war of survival. This is a war of good versus evil. This is a war of light versus darkness. This is a war between those who love life a…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as the Family Research Council as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The list is curious, though, because while it may be a list of perceived indignities and injustices visited upon some people who subscribe to a far right idea of Christianity, the list as a whole doesn’t even scratch the surface of actions last year that may have offended Jesus — or any person of faith or good will, for that matter. So, I submit my own list of the t…

After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…ommunicated from the Antiochian Archdiocese, made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch list for his association with the Traditionalist Youth Network, and has since been involved with the white supremacist and terrorist organization, the Russian Imperial Movement, which has monarchist ideologies. 2020 Republican candidate Lauren Witzke, who ran for senatorial election in Delaware and has been public about her conversion process to Orthodox…

Yes, Let’s Talk About Kermit Gosnell

By Sarah Posner

…nt of a Philadelphia social worker, pointing out that the community health center which serves the same low-income neighborhood in which the Gosnell clinic was located is considered to be one of the city’s best facilities. But as a recipient of federal funding, of course this center could not offer abortion care. So why did Gosnell’s patients not go to a better, i.e. safer, abortion clinic, for example, the Planned Parenthood in downtown Philadelp…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…re we are suspicious of any of the insiders who imagine they are the human center, which they are not. Those inside who know resilience are surely our friends. Day Two Day Two for us, Day 5 for the Talks, found us involved with a man high up on a light pole, waving a home made banner of the earth-as-womb, a fetus resting inside. He was in front of the Grand Palais, an enormous glass roofed building constructed for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibi…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…it up with American Atheists president David Silverman. And no one in the center cared, because that’s what supposed to happen. The missiles flew overhead. We yawned tremendously. Then, into this scene stepped a most unlikely player: Jon Stewart. In a hilarious three-minute clip, Stewart made the lawsuit look exactly as silly as it is and pointed out its hurtfulness to the cause of… atheists. Mimicking Silverman, Stewart declared that, “As presid…