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Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…mon good, as if the oppressed will benefit by toning down their demands in order to stand on the same patch of land as the powerful. Vereide called this “reconciliation,” a beautiful word turned ugly in the mouths of the powerful and the paternalistic. One of his favorite examples? A labor leader on bended knee before a boss, asking forgiveness for his rebellion. One of Chuck Colson’s [examples]? Eldridge Cleaver, a founder of the Black Panthers,…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…lars.” • Faith communities fight poverty: The statistics are startling. According to the Center for American Progress’ Sally Steenland and Chase Nordengren, “Over 37 million Americans live below the official poverty line, constituting a population larger than the 25 smallest states combined… One in eight Americans is poor. One child in six is poor. … From 2000 to 2007, the number of children living in poverty increased by 15 percent… In 2007, the…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…esidential candidate of the far-right Constitution Party, a group that, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, has ties to white supremacist organizations. Regardless of these clunky historical facts, Obama’s presidency and the GOP’s dismaying efforts to appeal to “the hip-hop generation” appear to have prompted resurgent interest in these arguments as a race-conscious update to the anti-abortion message. Since late December, a number of an…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…enormous collections of bad debt, or worse still, imaginary insurance policies, simply because the person selling them has called them “securities.” This crisis is ironically not psychological at all, though much of the pain is. No, this crisis in empirical, a simple matter of numbers (and words) not adding up. And the reason they don’t? Because people, really bad people, lied about them, cooked the books, sold this nonsense to their friends, and…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…OP politics, or will she be returned to the frozen tundra?* —- *There has been a surprisingly vibrant discussion surrounding the potential redundancy of the phrase ‘frozen tundra.’ The New York Times’ sports pages reported on Lake Superior State University’s eagerly awaited List of “Words Banished From the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness, 2003 edition,” which banished ‘frozen tundra’ for being redundant (missing the iro…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…edicaid enrollment and spending are increasing as the economy worsens,” according to the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy. Even for an administration that has couched political initiatives in the language of faith, unleashing the “armies of compassion” on the vexing issues of poverty, homelessness, and addiction, it seems like a stretch that it would look to faith-based groups to solve America’s health care crisis. Nevertheless, th…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rch broke with Canterbury and other Anglican churches over the question of ordaining women priests and of accepting homosexuals as ordained ministers. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria voted to support legislation criminalizing same-sex marriage and endorsed the Same Sex Marriage ( Prohibition ) Act This unholy alliance of fundamentalist religions with state power is the primary cause of the suppression of the rights of LGBTQ peoples in N…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…l about systems, ethical prescriptions—or proscriptions—and grand schemes. Order out of chaos is the name of the game. All this to suggest that the Top Ten list is obviously something deeply ingrained in the human experience. So here, without further preamble, RD’s picks for the Ten Best of 2008’s Religion Top Ten lists. 1.) By now, everyone has seen TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP TEN RELIGION STORIES FOR 2008 by the wise and learned Dave Van Biema. The top…

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…ur times in one hand and the truth and the clarity and the charity of the Word of God the other; women whose hearts are broken over the gender confusion and the spiritual and emotional and relational carnage of our day and who, like those men of old, know what to do.” DeMoss has collaborated with a number of her fellow speakers before. In 2002, she edited a compilation of essays on submission and headship entitled Biblical Womanhood in the Home, w…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…mption”); Redemption is the name of a heavy metal band, and the title of a number of record albums including one by the metal group Vomitory, and the hip hop duo GRITS; “Redemption” was the title of a two-part episode on television’s “Stargate SG-1,” and also of a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” two-parter. “Redemption Song” was one of many of Bob Marley’s extraordinary musical contributions, and if you haven’t seen The Shawshank Redemption, rent…