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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…f their leadership and their church offices is a hefty understatement, and promotes critical misunderstandings of their roles. It’s like referring to Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan as a Catholic priest. He is certainly that, but he’s no ordinary priest. One article named Apostle Abby Abildness as a pastor, but according to her book bio on Amazon, she “was commissioned as an apostle by John Benefiel in 2011.” Her bio on her organizational we…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…charist,” thundered David Virtue of virtueonline.org, who concluded, “This latest outrage will only hasten the church’s demise.” Many, though not all, of these Anglicans reject any role for women as priests or bishops. And so for them, Heather Cook’s crime spree began with her ordination, and continued because the church that consecrated her was terminally ill. Follow Jesus into the neighborhood; travel lightly. While there are points of life and…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…nce?); The Matrix Trilogy, as Adam Gopnik has pointed out, is probably the latest version of this story—a hero freeing human beings from their roles as organic batteries cultivated to power a race of evil machines. There is a more frightening proposition: that other people are in fact shadows cast on the wall. How do we know others are not a dream? Even observable behavior is a poor indicator. Take the fact of Kismet, a robot engineered at MIT to…

Arguing Liberally: Rift in Religious Coalitions Goes Public

By Mark Silk

…umbers comparable to Catholicism and evangelicalism. Now, according to the latest American Religious Identification Survey, it has shrunk to just 12 percent of the adult population, and that population is significantly older than the other major religious streams. For all that, the prophets are there to serve their usual purpose—chiding and poking and raising hell. On Monday, the White House rolled out the balance of the last 10 names on the advis…

Lila Rose Targets Planned Parenthood with Lies

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…boycott list in their daily shopping—go home and tune in to EWTN, read the latest blogs and decide what to pontificate about tonight. They don’t act, and they don’t worry anymore about results, except those which will be occasionally delivered through prayer. If we could pray away abortion, however, it would have been over a long time ago. And those are just a few examples. All of this raises the question of whether the tactic of deception—more, p…

Guess Who’s More Popular Than Jesus?

By Evan Derkacz

…nces could have been avoided with some simple data? Take, for example, the latest Harris poll (pdf) in which President Barack Obama edged out Jesus Christ as the greatest American Hero, followed by Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan. What’s truly astonishing, if you stop to think about it, are the criteria by which one is deemed heroic. As you scan the list, think about the life (and death) of Jesus, and about how awesome Obama must be to have s…

Matisyahu Shaves His Beard

By Jay Michaelson

…e who takes on religious practice but was not raised Orthodox. Matisyahu’s latest decision reinforces the nasty stereotypes that “frum from birth” people have long held about newly religious ones. Second, Matisyahu’s brand of Hasidism was Chabad, which, as the joke goes, is the religion closest to Judaism. Chabad’s messianism, its proselytization (to Jews only), its open mysticism, and its tendency to fear modernity less than other Hasidic groups…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…ct over Israel Dov Waxman Princeton University Press April 12, 2016 In his latest book Dov Waxman weighs in on this phenomenon of civil disunity with acumen and verve, showing how the American diaspora has produced a collective that no longer views Israel as the sine qua non of its identity.* The nation-state of Israel is a fact. But Waxman argues that it also has become the touchstone of this disunity which is, in some ways, quite new. Decades ea…

Iowa OKs Gay Marriage, WWCD? (What Will California Do?)

By Bill Berkowitz

…hat Iowa does not become the gay marriage Mecca due to the Supreme Court’s latest experiment in social engineering,” said Iowa Congressman Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron). (A summary of the decision from the Iowa Supreme Court can be found here [pdf] and the full decision can be read here [pdf]) Inquiring minds want to know whether the Iowa decision will have any bearing on the California Supreme Court which is expected to rule on the validity of Propos…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…ist plots involving anti-matter bombs, there’s little reason to expect his latest work to be factually reliable. Perhaps it shouldn’t need to be, except for Brown’s prefatory note claiming that “all organizations in this novel exist,” and “all rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real.” As a student of Freemasonry, I can vouch that Brown’s claim is generally true. The strange rituals and traditions that the novel attributes t…