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Watch the New Birth Throne: Eddie Long Declared ‘King’ by ‘Rabbi’

By Anthea Butler

…fPo) it would be laughable. I wish I could say I was surprised by Long’s latest antics, but I’m not. Actually, I am surprised he stayed away from the church this long. After declaring in December that he was taking a hiatus to work on the problems in his marriage, Long has returned with a new lacefront and a defiant attitude. Having a fake rabbi declare him “King” of a fading, dying mega-church is a joke, but what is not are the deluded New Birt…

Resolved: Obama Can’t Win Even Young Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

In the latest episode of my Bloggingheads program, I talked with Matt Anderson, author of the book Earthen Vessels (which he describes as a theology of the body for evangelicals) and lead writer for the blog Mere Orthodoxy. Our starting point was Andrew Sullivan’s much-discussed cover story on Christianity, but the conversation took us in some really fascinating directions. In this segment Matt discusses how the Obama administration, and in parti…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

In the latest episode of my Bloggingheads program, I discuss, with The American Prospect’s Paul Waldman, the political obstacles facing the secularist movement in the United States: You can watch the entire discussion, which was prompted by this past weekend’s Reason Rally, here. Waldman wrote more about atheism in the United States in a column at TAP, and I wrote one on the prospects for a secularist political movement for the Guardian. Waldman…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…hat they term “house arrest.” Below, Megan Sweas reports from India on the latest wave of protests. –Eds.] DELHI—Shibayan Raha had worried that this would happen. At a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, a 27-year-old Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran past the podium before police and other activists could douse the flames. As an Indian who has worked for Students for a Free Tibet, Raha has seen young refuge…

How Evangelical Women See Limbaugh

By Sarah Posner

In the latest episode of my Bloggingheads show, Christianity Today online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey and I discuss whether evangelical women’s rejection of Rush Limbaugh’s misogyny will have any impact on either their position on the contraception coverage requirement or the presidential election: You can watch the entire program here; we also discussed the KONY12 controversy and Mitt Romney’s evangelical problem. (Click on the links in the prog…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together.” It was latest epistle in the growing canon of hierarchical statements aimed at gaining exemptions from federal and state laws that protect the rights of same-sex couples. But as the church leaders fortify their culture-war defenses [see here for some of RD’s recent coverage –Eds.], some Catholic universities seem to be taking a decidedly different approach to LGBT issues. A four…

The Republican “No Schools Left” Program

By Julie Ingersoll

…a proper function of government. “Government schools” were the vehicle for promoting the anti-Christian religion of humanism and should ultimately be abolished. Few outside his small circle took him seriously. In Rushdoony’s vision, the single most important tool for transforming the whole of culture to conform to biblical law (i.e. the exercise of dominion), was to replace public education with biblical education. The decades since have brought t…

The “Religious Freedom” Long Game and the Santorum Surge

By Sarah Posner

On the latest episode of my show on Bloggingheads, World magazine political reporter Emily Belz and I discuss the ongoing battle over contraception coverage and the Rick Santorum surge. Was Darrell Issa’s hearing last week a political winner or loser? For religious conservatives, this battle is not about 2012, but a long game, as mapped out in the Manhattan Declaration. In this clip, Belz and I discuss the religious language Santorum uses, and wh…

Aspirin as Birth Control, Shazam! and the GOP’s Crusade Against Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…chor Andrea Mitchell picked her jaw up off the floor. As I heard about the latest installment of the 2012 Presidential Campaign Time Travels To Another Millenium, while I was across town in a Congressional hearing room, my first thought was that no one should tell the Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that aspirin could be used as birth control. First, they’d believe it, and second, they’d start a crusade to make s…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…ect, both of which appeared during the 2012 presidential campaign. In this latest essay she takes stock of evangelical voting trends in the election—79% of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney—and seeks to persuade us, in spite of this rather homogeneous voting pattern, that they are not as monolithic as we might think. It’s true, of course, that the measure of a person’s religious and political beliefs is more complex than how she pulled the…